The ITV Drama

[Steve_uk]

Hope you have proof of that Steve? 

Well I didn't share Bamber's bed in Head Street, Goldhanger, but Carol Ann Lee's book is my trustworthy source.

[lookout]

i don’t think having your mortgage/rent paid by your parents is standing on your own two feet at all.

Nor do I.

[notsure]

Like I said, the only thing he wanted from his parents was money.

well i was talking about both of them so they were both unable to stand on their own two feet although JB did hold down a job one way or another so was able to pay his bills?

[Caroline]

Well I didn't share Bamber's bed in Head Street, Goldhanger, but Carol Ann Lee's book is my trustworthy source.

Good enough for me - but I doubt Lookout will be happy with that. However, it's also in his statement.

[Caroline]

well i was talking about both of them so they were both unable to stand on their own two feet although JB did hold down a job one way or another so was able to pay his bills?

The house he got was on condition of him working on the farm. Not sure if he paid his own bills - I know he got free petrol.

[lookout]

Well I didn't share Bamber's bed in Head Street, Goldhanger, but Carol Ann Lee's book is my trustworthy source.

I'm sure it is----after only having made contact by writing half a dozen times to him until she was told by the prison to give it a rest and stop contacting him.

[Steve_uk]

But he wasn't living WITH them which meant they weren't breathing down his neck 24/7. I'll bet he saw it as being free, at first.

The Bambers always tried to equalize things between daughter and son: Sheila's secretarial course was paid for so Jeremy got a round the world trip, Sheila got a model portfolio so Jeremy got another trip, Sheila got the Maida Vale flat after the Hampstead flat developed rising damp so Jeremy got the rent-free Goldhanger property. But there was no demonstrable love apart from June's heartfelt letter to be opened after her death, a symbol of her inadequacies which she all to readily acknowledged, but which was too little too late, as Jeremy screwed it up contemptuously and stuffed it into the glove compartment, whilst Sheila never got the chance to read it at all.

[Jane]

I'm sure it is----after only having made contact by writing half a dozen times to him until she was told by the prison to give it a rest and stop contacting him.

Did he tell you that, or did the prison authorities?

[Steve_uk]

The house he got was on condition of him working on the farm. Not sure if he paid his own bills - I know he got free petrol.

The problem was his expenditure. Even after flogging cannabis in bank bags by mail order he had to rely on June writing him personal cheques to make ends meet.

[Caroline]

I'm sure it is----after only having made contact by writing half a dozen times to him until she was told by the prison to give it a rest and stop contacting him.

Who told you that? 

[sami]

The Bambers always tried to equalize things between daughter and son: Sheila's secretarial course was paid for so Jeremy got a round the world trip, Sheila got a portfolio so Jeremy got another trip, Sheila got the Maida Vale flat after the Hampstead flat developed rising damp so Jeremy got the rent-free Goldhanger property. But there was no demonstrable love apart from June's heartfelt letter to be opened after her death, a symbol of her inadequacies which she all to readily acknowledged, but which was too little too late, as Jeremy screwed it up contemptuously and stuffed it into the glove compartment, whilst Sheila never got the chance to read it at all.

in a nutshell.excellent post steve

[Kaldin]

How could he phone later? If they had gone straight in, it would have been obvious they had been dead quite some time. Jeremy wanted to be at the scene in order to intervene, that's why he started to get edgy when he was on hold with the West phone call. House full of guns and she knows how to use all of them - they are hardly going to rush in unarmed - but to control that, he needed to be there. If he's called 999, they's have gotten there before him and his role would have been much less influential.

How could they have got there before him? He was only three miles away. The police don't have emergency vehicles waiting on every corner.

[JackieD]

neville may have kept those hours ,but jb was far more flexible

You have no idea and I have a very reliable source

[sami]

jb could not have been absolutely sure where the police were or how fast they would get there

[Caroline]

How could they have got there before him? He was only three miles away. The police don't have emergency vehicles waiting on every corner.

Because when you call the emergency services, the message goes out as the person is talking on the phone and the nearest car takes the job. There may have been one close - he wouldn't know that - would he?