Blood spatter in the Tabram murder

[Stephen Thomas]

Tabram was stabbed to death by a gang of East End roughs that had been causing mayhem in the vicinity and had been seen approaching George Yard Buildings just prior to her murder.

But don't mind me, chaps. Keep calm and carry on.

[DVV]

And the logical inference, since Killeen said "dagger or bayonet" after having alluded to an "ordinary penknife", is that he meant : something stronger than that penknife.

What about this, Fish ?
Something you could agree with, couldn't you ?

[DVV]

I'd be pleased to make you happy, Fish, but not on this one. That's too big a mistake.
I'll have other opportunities on a Fleming thread.

[Fisherman]

David:

"why merely suggesting a dagger or a bayonet"

Because it could have been a dagger-shaped Zulu spear.

When will you grasp it, David? A doctor will NOT at an inquest state what he cannot be absolutely certain of. He was absolutely certain that the weapon was some sort of dagger-like instrument, and that was exactly as much as he judged himself to be at liberty to state.

Try and understand this, David. It is dead simple. The doctor at an inquest will DESCRIBE the general type of weapon that reasonably MAY have inflicted the wound he is describing. He will NOT say that "it must have been a dagger", because there will be other instruments that produce daggerlike wounds.

Please tell me that you understand this principle!

The best,
Fisherman

[DVV]

The logical inference when somebody says "dagger" is normally that they MEAN dagger, David.
Fisherman

But dagger = two cutting edges is nothing but a brand new anthem of yours (see Magpie's post again).

And the logical inference, since Killeen said "dagger or bayonet" after having alluded to an "ordinary penknife", is that he meant : something stronger than that penknife.