:56:03
- Yes, sir.
- That is exhibit P1, my lord.
:56:06
Where did you find this, Inspector?
:56:08
That is the jacket
found in the prisoner's flat,
:56:11
which I handed to our lab
to test for bloodstains.
:56:14
- And did you find any bloodstains?
- Yes.
:56:16
Though an attempt
had been made to wash them out.
:56:19
What tests were made?
:56:21
First to determine
if the stains were human blood,
:56:25
then to classify it by group or type.
:56:27
And was the blood
of a particular group or type?
:56:30
Yes, sir. It is type O.
:56:33
And did you subsequently
test the blood of the dead woman?
:56:36
- Yes, sir.
- What type was that?
:56:40
The same. Type O.
:56:42
Thank you, Inspector.
No further questions.
:56:46
Inspector, you say the only fingerprints
you found were those of Mrs French,
:56:51
Janet McKenzie and Leonard Vole.
:56:53
In your experience, when a burglar breaks
in, does he usually leave fingerprints
:56:58
- or does he wear gloves?
- He wears gloves.
:57:00
So the absence
of fingerprints in a robbery
:57:03
- would hardly surprise you?
- No, sir.
:57:05
Can't we surmise the burglar might have
entered a presumably empty house,
:57:09
suddenly encountered
Mrs French and struck her,
:57:12
then, realising she was dead,
fled without taking anything?
:57:15
I submit, my lord,
that it is entirely impossible
:57:18
to guess what went on in the mind
of some entirely imaginary burglar.
:57:22
With or without gloves.
:57:24
Let us not surmise, Sir Wilfrid,
but confine ourselves to facts.
:57:30
Inspector, when you questioned
the prisoner as to the stains on his jacket,
:57:35
did he not show you
a recently-healed scar on his wrist,
:57:39
- saying he had cut himself slicing bread?
- Yes, sir, that is what he said.
:57:43
And were you not told
the same thing by his wife?
:57:46
- Yes, sir. But afterwards...
- Just a simple yes or no, please.
:57:50
Did the prisoner's wife show you a knife
:57:52
and tell you that her husband
had cut his wrist while slicing bread?
:57:56
- Yes, sir.
- I will ask you to examine this knife.