Bible John: A New Suspect by Jill Bavin-Mizzi

[Herlock Sholmes]

Thanks Darryl you are being very helpful.

Its a case of me trying to get my head round this.

It a moot point I am trying to make. My understanding is that the scientists including Professor MacDonald at no time have stated that McInnes when exhumed had false teeth.

MacDonald states it was 'because of the limited detail' that no positive result could be obtained regarding the bite mark

and the Crown states 'the bite mark showed insufficient points of detail for any degree of probability to be attributed to its authorship'

I don't think my point gets us anywhere really. Its been covered enough but just wanted to record it.

Thanks all

NW

You’re right to mention it NW. Why didn’t he mention the issue of the dentures? I suspect that he was just making a general “no luck I’m afraid” type comment without bothering to go into detail. I think that because Audrey Gillan was being specific in saying that McInnes had dentures fitted three years after Helen Puttock’s murder then she must have got this info from someone that knew. Maybe McInnes’s wife or a family member? Perhaps they recalled him getting dentures and when but they couldn’t recall the extent (a pity that they didn’t know, or couldn’t recall, where his dentist was). So perhaps the police were hoping that he’s had limited dentures fitted and in an area of his mouth which didn’t preclude a possible match with the bite mark. This turned out not to have been the case though.