I had thought of saving this thread for next week, for 22nd June the birthday of Nicholas and Daniel Caffell, sons of Colin Caffell and Sheila Jean Caffell née Bamber, yet it’s a bit like looking forward to Christmas when it passes all too soon, when it’s the anticipation in which lies the excitement, the blowing out of candles on a chocolate birthday cake and the thought that someone cares for you to have gone to so much trouble to organize a party and for one to be made a fuss of and to feel special even if it's for just one day.
But Nicholas and Daniel Caffell didn’t get the opportunity to celebrate so many birthdays, just more than the fingers of one hand before their lives were snuffed out as if they were six candles atop that birthday cake whose wax ran down and was consumed. Six years of a life where people born today can expect to live to 90, not forgetting the accident of birth in the first place which scientists tell us is infinitesimal to be here at all. Of course one respects people who actually knew Jeremy Bamber and who tirelessly campaign for his release, however mistaken they may be, and who work for no recompense, but for all the videos I have seen on youtube with the haunting piano music trilling across what admittedly is or was at least a handsome bloke bewailing the loss of his liberty yet who to some here is but a murderous Pied Piper, when in this thread at least the onus is on those who cannot and will never speak back.
For all the arguments and domestic upheavals in Colin and Sheila’s lives there seemed to me always to be a common bond with the children, and within the confines of her illness Sheila always put them first. She would never entertain men whilst the twins were present, if her illness did cause neglect at times she was horrified at any mistakes she had made, and the children were never a weapon used against Colin on any occasion.
It is PC Woodcock’s statement which reminds us how the boys were discovered,one lying on his back with bullets between the eyes, the other still sucking his thumb whilst lying on his right hand side. This utter callousness is unequalled and unparallelled even in the shooting of June seven times,the final shot again right between the eyes,we have the concomitant shooting and vindictive bashing of Nevill with the rifle butt which is how Jeremy repaid this Darby and Joan couple for adopting him then sending him away and in his eyes depriving him of the love and affection he needed, yet when that was more forthcoming after the parents recognized any latent mistakes it was at that stage only their bank balances which interested him. June’s admission of mistakes as she turned to the security of her God rather than face the turmoil of her domestic life manifested itself in the nescienct yet heartfelt simplicity of the letter to be opened upon the occasion of her death,but which was screwed up by Jeremy as he sneered “I’m glad she’s dead”,in contrast to the unswerving loyalty Jeremy shows his parents in prison twenty eight years after he killed them.
http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=179.0;attach=277;imageI note among researching this thread that member ceedeells writes of discussing the twins with Jeremy and that he was in fact very fond of them,any reticence being out of emotion for the deaths of ones so young. This fondness is also speculated on by egap1 in nugnug’s thread “the twins staying” which can be read here:
http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,2264.0.htmlThe truth is probably very different. If Mike’s assertion that the first ten bullets were fired seven to June,one each to the twins and one to Nevill is correct this would tally with Daniel receiving shot 1 independent of the others,shots 2-5 made in an arc pattern,then after Nicholas’s first shot Jeremy running into June’s room to incapacitate her as it was common knowledge that she was a light sleeper and Jeremy would take no chances for any form of defence. Jeremy concluded the slaughtering of his family by leading his sister to her death by the hand,a young gullible girl who put her trust in a handsome con man whose only intention by the end of those early hours was to be the sole beneficiary of an estate worth £2 million in today’s money.
I could go on but will stop with one more posting of the red jewellery box which Colin treasures of the few momentoes left of his beautiful children born of two beautiful parents. I’m ready for the vitriol and personal invective from the highest levels which was hinted at several months ago when wild allegations were made of this site being infiltrated by paedophiles. But I will have my say just as I sit through those lamentable videos screaming innocence when Jeremy had no Christmas dinner which rings hollow to those of my mindset, when Nicholas and Daniel are absent at the table where Colin,Sheila and a cake with 34 candles are waiting.
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