How does Jeremy Bamber get a mentally unhinged schizophrenic women to lie down so he can shoot her? With a long rifle used to shoot rabbits?
Sheila wasn't mentally unhinged. You are either ignorant, or angry/frustrated that you can't win the argument.
Resorting to stereotyping mental health patients, says more about your lack of understanding and lack of empathy, than it does about Sheila Caffell.
If Sheila felt that there was no physical way to escape, she would almost certainly have begged for mercy.
She would also have been terrified.
Jeremy Bamber may also have re-assured Sheila that he was only killing the parents, and that no one else was in any danger. Do what he says and everything will be alright. That is entirely plausible given the known facts. Far more plausible than Sheila fighting back.
Sheila also had an extreme reaction to the drug she was taking, that wouldn't have been diminished just because the dosage was halved (There is strong evidence that the tranquilising effect had not significantly diminished as a result of halving her dose).
Haloperidol doesn't work by tranquilising patients. The tranquilising effect of the drug is an unwanted side effect.
Another unwanted side effect of the drug that is experienced by even fewer patients, are symptoms similar to that of Parkinsons disease.
Parkinsons doesn't just cause tremors, it also causes slow movement.
Sheila is known to have been suffering
both of those symptoms from the drug. Her body had a really bad reaction to the drug. It's the Parkinsons symptoms that contributed to her poor co-ordination and slow movement, that led people to say that she couldn't even make a cup of tea.
Not only does it make it less likely that Sheila was the killer, the side-effects of the drug would have helped to placate Sheila prior to being murdered.
I don't know why Jeremy Bamber supporters think that a tranquilised, stick thin woman exhibiting symptoms of Parkinsons would either be able to smash Nevill Bambers skull and arms to smithereens, or overpower her psychotic brother who has just murdered the family, and is now high on adrenaline.
It's also a line of defence that has not been pursued by Jeremy Bambers lawyers. It's much harder to demonise and persecute mental health patients now, than it was in 1986.
Obviously, demonising and persecuting the mentally ill may still be very popular amongst the wider public, and is a stick used frequently to beat Sheila with. But blaming the mad-old-schizo-bint-with-the-strength-of-ten-men won't wash from a legal point any more.
