At the time Jeremy Bamber received the telephone call from whf he was obviously 'home' in his cottage! Although he claimed it was the voice on the other end of the line, that it was his father (Ralph Neville Bamber who spoke to him), it was in fact 'the voice of Ralph Neville' who was simply getting the 'thumbs up' to confirm that Jeremy was safely back at his home before 'Ralph Neville called the police at 3.26am', pretending to be Ralph Neville Bamber who told the police that 'my daughter has gone crazy' , and that 'She has got hold of one of my guns' ...
The content of that phone call (3.26am) was 'recorded on police automated recording equipment' and 'still exists as part of the Southend on Sea, investigation' ('Special Branch files'). It was subsequently established by relatives, friends and work colleagues, that 'the person speaking on the other end of the phone who spoke to PC West at 3.26am' , that 'the voice on the recording which purported to be Ralph Neville Bamber', was in fact, 'not him'! Neither was the voice of that recording, the voice of
Jeremy Bamber
By the end of the first week in September 1985, police were satisfied by a reliance on the content of that (3.26am) police recording, and the 'general information provided by the jilted girlfriend' (Julie Mugford ) that Jeremy was behind or involved in the planning, or execution of four of the five murders, and they knew at Headquarter level, that a part from Sheila and Jeremy being behind or involved in such a dastardly plot, that there existed another accomplice, that a third accomplice (without including the role of Julie Mugford) was involved in the plot to murder four members of the family!
However, Mathew MacDonald was not
that third accomplice!
But..
Ralph Neville was..