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with one unexpected round in it.
Later 5 bullets
similar to those issued with the revolver were
recovered from the body and the room (see section
A i)) and 3 of those were proven forensically to
have been fired from the weapon found. Later a post
mortem examination provided evidence that MacLennan
was a chronic passive homosexual and the Coroner
disallowed this (extremely helpful to the police)
evidence as being not within the strict terms of
reference of his court the evidence was later
provided in a report by a reputable London forensic
pathologist, Dr Hugh Johnson who has studied the post
mortem photographs,
In i) to iv) above I believe we have motive, weapon,
opportunity, consistent P M and ballistic findings and
a believable sequence of events. If the facts are as
stated above, and I have not yet seen anything which
disproves them, then the only realistic verdict open to
a Coroner's jury would be one of suicide. Even if an
evilly-disposed police officer had phoned MacLennan
that night and instructed him to draw a revolver and
go out on a raid in the early morning, he, or an agent
acting for him, was still faced with the problem of
killing MacLennan, who was neither drunk nor drugged
with MacLennan's own revolver in a manner typical of
suicide without leaving signs of a struggle, forging
the suicide note and leaving the flat and particularly
the bedroom secured from the inside.
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