A Bullet, Re-Born!

Hello boys and girls – are we sitting comfortably for story time? If so, we shall begin on another tale of magic, yay!

We will begin with another quiz question cos we like those:

How are a CAT and a BULLET alike?

“They both hurt if they catch you,” you ask? Well, it’s a good answer – I wouldn’t care much to feel either a cat’s claw nor a bullet enter my person even if one is more serious than another,  but it’s not the one I’m after!

The real answer is: A bullet and a cat are alike cos they both have more than one life!

At least, it appears one of the bullets in the case of Jeremy Bamber has more than one life. Maybe not the nine lives enjoyed by those lazy, frolicking felines, but certainly more than one.

You see, most bullets would consider it the end of the road if they were to fragment. I mean, after all, if someone scattered an arm of yours here and a leg of yours there and four toes somewhere else, you’d probably be a gonner, too!

But this bullet is special – I’d say miraculous! Fragmenting wasn’t enough to keep this bullet down – like a tale from the Holy Bible (Blogged on that the other day – read it, it’s a belter), the bullet was born again, as perfectly formed and as rounded as the day it was made.

How? you ask... Well I’m afraid you need to ask the Crown Prosecution that. It was one of many of their super-duper magic tricks that helped condemn an innocent man to almost 30 years in jail for crimes he didn’t commit.

Fact - Sheila Caffell suffered two bullet wounds. One bullet lodged in her neck, the other directly into her brain.

Fact – The pathologist who examined Sheila detailed that the first bullet "fragmented on striking the bone.” (extract below).

Fact – In support of the above, this X-Ray – not discovered until after Jeremy’s appeal – clearly shows the bullet has very much fragmented.

X ray showing the fragmented bullet

Yet mysteriously, at trial, the prosecution ballistic experts detailed that BOTH bullets examined for suitability to the murder weapon were whole. How can that be? We’re certain Mr Fletcher is a decent fellow and that he provided said information based on fact i.e. the bullets he examined WERE whole.

So now the situation is this: It’s a FACT that one bullet fragmented inside Sheila’s neck. It’s also a seemingly a FACT that the same bullet was whole when examined for Prosecution purposes. The question being – what happened in the mean time?

We’re aware that the airy-fairy, flimsy case against Jeremy was only even remotely passable if the moderator evidence was proven. Did the swapping of this first bullet fuel this aim? Possibly – that’s the only bit we are guessing – but the bit we are certain of is that it was swapped – and the X-ray proves it.

Like dominoes, another piece of the prosecution case falls. Maybe the Police in this case is effectively one giant cat? I make this about eight-and-a-half lives down, guys. It’d suggest you end this farce once and for all while you still can, before the evidence does it for you!