UK UK - Jill Dando, 37, Fulham, London, 26 Apr 1999

[Novosti]

This is a very good analysis. It remains a very peculiar collection of ballistic facts but I think there are some reasonable conclusions we can make:
- The weapon and ammunition were non standard and subject to bespoke alteration on the individual items.
- The alteration process was amateur - the crimping for example was not done with the best tools for the job. This suggests a workshop without high quality equipment, but where the workman had a degree of skill and know-how in terms of how to acheive a workable result with sub-standard tools.
- The weapon and ammunition were highly likely altered in the UK - the particular alterations were specific to the challenges posed by the British legislative regime for handguns.
- The result would have been a very poor, unreliable weapon. But capable of lethal effect.

Together this points to garage-style small-scale workshop producing activated or reactivated weapons for the British criminal fraternity.

One further comment. The weirdest thing here is the smooth bore. Normally found in shotguns or weapons more than 150 years old. Or blank firer / starter guns that were never intended to be firearms. The most likely scenario seems like a conversion of a blank firer.