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

"Robert Henderson" <philip@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>, tim..... 
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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?
>
>
> Those facts could easily be explained by someone coming upon the bodies 
> and picking up the gun. He might, for example, have cleaned the gun 
> because it was covered in blood. RH

Yes they could, but IIUC this wasn't presented by the defence as a 
possibility.  Presumably even they didn't think it credible.

tim