Re: An oddity about the Neil Entwistle case - he didn't try to commit suicide

"Robert Henderson" <philip@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "daily telegraph
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> Neil Entwistle jailed for life without parole for murder of wife and 
> daughter
> By Tom Leonard in New York
> Last Updated: 9:39PM BST 26/06/2008
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> Neil Entwistle was jailed for life today without the possibility of
parole 
> after he was convicted of murdering his wife and baby daughter."
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> Note: As far as one can judge from the media re****ts, Entwistle's lawyer

> presented  a cursory defence with some glaring omissions, for example,
he 
> failed to present any witnesses to sup****t the claim that the wife was 
> depressed - you either don't use such a defence if there is  no
sup****ting 
> evidence or you put a few psychologists on the stand to testify on the 
> general question of how often such killings are the result of
depression.
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> The other major  thing which seems odd - although it could simply be the

> inadequacies of the re****ting - is the absence of forensic evidence, 
> something one would have imagined was pretty crucial because of the
claim 
> that the wife did it. Why no emphasis on the  place and angle of entry
of 
> the bullet or the proximity of the gun to her body when fired?

The re****t that I heard said that the gun had the wife's DNA on it, only
at 
the end of the barrel, and that his DNA was also on it (at some unstated 
place).  This seems damming forensic to me.  If she had shot herself, how 
did she clean the handle of the gun afterwards?

tim