Do Injuries Give a Clue to the Types of Weapons used?
One bullet entered Miss. Romila Sivapragasams head just above her left forehead and exited through the back of her neck. This rules out her having been on the ground face down. A second entered through the back of her right upper arm and exited through her forearm, which rules out her lying on her back on the ground. The two considerations tell us that she was in all likelihood kneeling on the ground and was shot with a gun held above her head pointing down. The entry wounds for the two injuries were 2 x 1 cm and 1.5 x 1 cm respectively, which suggests (see 7.4) that the bullets did not explode or fragment on entry. Two objects were found in her cranium. Dodds statement among the conclusions of his first report that The evidence shows that two distinct calibres have been used and therefore by inference two (2) distinct types of weapons, should lead us to ask whether there are other indications besides the projectile from Romilas cranium. We have good reason to believe that much of the
