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presented himself at the Homantin Hill Police Station

and obtained a service revolver by deceipt i.e. by

wrongfully stating that he needed it for an early

morning C I D raid. He collected and personally signed

for the weapon and was recognised by at least one of

the officers at the Police Station. He left that station

at approximately 6.00 a m with the .38 revolver and 6

cartridges and could have been back in his own flat at

6.10 a m. At a time somewhere between 6.00 and 7.00 am

a number of reports were heard by Sandra Hill who

occupied a neighbouring flat. At 10.00 a m approximately,

the laundry man was unusually unable to obtain entry to

MacLennan's flat and at 10.30 a m MacLennan failed to

keep the appointment at Police Headquarters where he was

to be interviewed by the S I U. At 11.12 a m a large

number of persons including MacLennan's own solicitor, arrived

at MacLennan's flat and found the door securely locked

(by 4 locks). When they finally obtained entry to the

flat they found no real signs of disturbance and a note

which can only be realistically interpreted as a suicide

note written in what was recognised (and later proved by

a hand-writing expert) to be MacLennan's writing. Inside

a bedroom, the single door bolted on the inside, which

did not otherwise communicate with any of the other rooms

and in which the windows were secure and the curtains

drawn, MacLennan's dead body was found dressed and

bearing 5 contact range bullet wounds in a suicidal site

of election (see section A). There was no real sign of

disturbance in the bedroom, and the service revolver

which he had drawn that same morning was close at hand