And believed lots of times but as soon as something like this crops up he's disbelieved?
I believe that Bamber said it but not that Sheila was involved.
And I rather think that JB was " testing " Mike at the time and the statement that Mike made, was the test to see if what he'd said was repeated-----and it was, which could be responsible for the fall-out that they had ? As it can be seen as a lack of trust in any future correspondence/involvement.
When you're genuinely fighting for someone's freedom, you don't come out with something like that.