I have already provided a source that Bamber had an answering machine. It would be on 24/7. we don't know that Jeremy's answer machine was switched on 24/7
So Bamber only had 5-10 seconds to answer Nevill's call. Nobody can say how many seconds had passed before Jeremy woke up and answered the call, he could have awoken on the first ring and answered the phone quickly!Or no seconds if the phone went straight to answer machine, as you suggested. my understanding from Jeremy was that he could answer a call through his answer machine, but that he could not dial out from it. I need to find his letters where he mentions something in them about his answer machine on his bedside cabinet and the five audio tapes the cops seized...
It would have taken him several minutes to wake, realise the phone was ringing, decide to answer it & go downstairs. I don't necessarily agree with that, he could have awoken on the first ring and been out of bed and answering the phone in seconds, we will never know
So no call was made by Nevill. I disagree, I believe Neville did make the call to Jeremy, and I believe that Neville then went on to make his 3.26am call to the police as per the 3.26am phone log. There had to be a call from the scene to Jeremy's cottage no matter on who's side anybody is on, or what corner anyone is fighting on behalf of - without a call from white house farm to Jeremy's cottage, there was either
no attack upon Neville Bamber which cost him his life after he had been using the telephone, or if Jeremy was the killer he must have been a complete fool to make up a story about receiving a call from his father if his father hadn't made such a call! At the very least I feel we can all be reassured in the knowledge that there must have been a call from A to B, whether Neville made that call, or the call was made by someone else purporting to be him, is another matter!
There either had to be someone back at Jeremy's cottage, (Jeremy himself, or some other person), to answer the call from white house farm, or the answer machine and the phone were unplugged and switched off and the person phoning from the Farmhouse was using the digital Statesman telephone with its last number dialled recall facility...
I can't believe that if Jeremy had been the killer, that he had phoned his own Cottage using the round finger dial phone which didn't have a last number dialled facility and which was normally plugged in upstairs in the main bedroom so to speak! Why would Jeremy unplug the statesman digital phone which was normally plugged in at the kitchen socket that would have helped to provide him with an alibi, and in its place, bring the round finger dial phone, downstairs after unplugging it, in at the kitchen socket? Surely he would have realised that the police would pick up on the fact that somebody had unplugged two different phones in two different parts of the house, hid one, and plugged the second one in at the socket where the first phone was normally plugged in, an activity which does nothing to advance Jeremy's alibi?
No, not only would June know which telephone she used that evening at about 10.00pm when she spoke with her sister Pamela Boutflour, and whether or not it was the statesman telephone she had used on that occasion, but when she went upstairs to bed she would surely have noticed if the round finger dial phone which was normally plugged in at the bedroom socket was missing or not? Similarly, at around 9.30pm when the farm secretary spoke to Neville Bamber on the telephone, he too would have known whether or not he used the statesman telephone in the kitchen, or the round finger dial phone in the bedroom, or the kitchen..
I can't see how Jeremy could have manipulated any of the telephones inside the farmhouse, and set them up with the handset of the round finger dial phone off its cradle plugged in at the kitchen socket because that doesn't help Jeremy with his alibi, it's as though if Jeremy is the killer, he wouldn't want to be able to prove that he received a call from his father, when all along that was the very reason why Jeremy tried to telephone Witham police station, and subsequently spoke to PC West at Chelmsford police station...