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couldn’t exclude there having been a second or further shots.

    Also attending the post-mortem was Kevan Walsh, a forensic scientist from ESR in Auckland. Walsh had been analysing forensic items since 1983 and was a specialist in firearms analysis. The following day, Saturday, 10 July, he went to the scene at 293 Aorangi Road and spent two days painstakingly inspecting and measuring the site.
    Orange paint lines marked where Scott’s body had lain, but otherwise everything remained as it was when police first arrived. There were no signs of shotgun marks on Scott’s ute, but Walsh quickly discovered a number of pellet strikes along a three-rail wooden fence to the right of the driveway. There were also marks on a young sapling nearby and the stakes around it, with some pellets still embedded in them. Walsh carefully marked and measured each of these in an effort to ascertain the direction and distance from which they had been fired.
    Despite finding the pellets that had obviously passed by Scott during the shooting, police found no other wads, which suggested that only one shot may have been fired. Then, not long after 1 pm on the Saturday, more than two days after police began examining the scene, a second shotgun shell wad was discovered. Remarkably, it was alongside the fence, behind the sapling where Walsh and others had been examining the pellet marks.
    Police have since claimed the wad must in some way have been masked by the tent covering Scott’s ute and body, but photos taken on the very first day, before the tent was put up, show white-suited officers poring over the ground near where the second wad was found. And even when it was erected, the tent remained well clear of the fence line.
    Official police photos of the wad, supposedly taken at the time it was found, show it sitting on top of the grass in a very obvious position. If this is so, it is incomprehensible police didn’t notice it during all the time they were closely searching the scene, examining the pellet marks in the fence and sapling and erecting the tent. If a single pellet, just millimetres across, could be discovered, it seems impossible to believe a white plastic wad several centimetres long could remain unseen within a metre or so.
    Suspicion remains that what actually happened was that somebody, most likely someone involved in the investigation, inadvertently stood on the wadding early in the scene examination, pressing it into the mud and leaving it largely obscured until it was noticed two days later. While police photos show the wad as being clean when found, Kevan Walsh later added weight to this theory, recalling that when the wad was found ‘It looked muddied’ and appeared as if it had been trodden on.

CHAPTER 3

Dark deeds and dead ends
    The discovery of the second wad gave Walsh, one of the country’s top experts when it came to interpreting firearms evidence, crucial information in solving the riddle of how Scott Guy had been shot. Faced with a murder committed in the predawn dark on a secluded country road, police had no easy route to finding the killer—there were no witnesses, no murder weapon, no apparent motive and no trail to follow from the scene. In fact, there was precious little evidence even at the scene other than the distinctive footprints close to the body. The post-mortem could tell them so much—medically, how Scott had died—but it needed experts such as Walsh to interpret the tiny details and create a picture that would act as a starting point for their investigation.
    So when Walsh arrived at 293 Aorangi Road, he wanted to add to what he’d learnt from the autopsy and see if he could work out where the killer had been when he fired at Scott. The pellets embedded in Scott’s body gave him some clues, and those found in the fence and sapling helped round out his theory. It was an amalgam of distance, angles, ballistics and patterning, a reduction of provable detail into a plausible reconstruction of the