The police's stance is Bamber excited the kitchen window.
Julie correctly told the police the kitchen window could be banged shut from outside. Bamber had told her he had found out about this window prior to the massacre. So not sure why he would start playing around with bits of string.
The housekeeper testified items around the kitchen window had been moved. These were fixed items that were rarely moved.
I don't understand why jurors were not taken to WHF to see for themselves whether or not it was possible for JB to bang shut any of the downstairs windows from outside.
Why was the jury taken to Fingringhoe shooting range to hear the rifle discharged with and without silencer, where the sound obviously isn't comparable with the rifle discharged within WHF, and yet the above was by-passed?
Free-standing washing up tidies and such like are not fixed. It's these items the housekeeper said looked out of place Taps, sinks etc are fixed. The tragedy happened during the height of summer and any of the occupants may have moved the items whilst opening/closing the window or for any other reason.
DCI Jones confirmed he checked all windows at 9.15am and found them shut and secure on their latches except the window to the dairy. However after this check but before soc images were taken of kitchen window and sink area including tidy someone opened the kitchen transom window due to flies and odours. This person may well have interfered with the normal arrangement found around the sink which the housekeeper referred to.
264. In contrast with Sergeant Golding, DCI Jones made a statement dated 7 October 1985 in which he reported that he had attended at the farm at approximately 9.15 a.m. on 7 August and he had proceeded to check every room on the ground floor of the house and found that on the ground floor all the windows in the house were secure and locked except the window to the dairy. That statement was read to the Jury as part of the Defence case.
265. Complaint is made that part of Mr Ainsley's Final Report was not disclosed to the Defence in which he wrote:
"There was no apparent entry to or exit from the house and D.Chief Inspector Jones did in fact examine the inside of all ground floor windows and noted that they were all shut and secured on their latches. The scene was photographed. It seems however that after the inspection of D.Chief Jones some person had partially opened the transom window in the kitchen and also opened the catch on the ground floor bathroom windows. I have been unable to discover the person responsible but there was comment made of the smell in the kitchen and the flies gathering. There is no reason to believe that the bathroom window was opened, but following the departure of the Scene of Crime officer, the witness Police Sergeant Golding secured the windows mentioned."
