Second part
The findings of the coroner's report were initially excluded. August 14, after his inquest, the coroner Chelmsford delivered the burial permit: the bodies of Nevill Bamber and June were entrusted to the care of Jeremy, who decided to incineration.
A sad event
Two days later, hundreds of area residents found themselves in the church of St Nicholas Tolleshunt D'Arcy. The nave was packed, a crowd gathered around the entrance, hoping to hear the service.
The coffins were then carried away in Colchester, which was scheduled for cremation. At the crematorium, Jeremy Bamber burst into tears when the last farewell to his family. His girlfriend, Julie Mugford, veiled in black, tried to comfort the young man.
Few people in Tolleshunt D'Arcy who knew Julie Mugford, some members of the family of Jeremy themselves had not yet met this young woman aged twenty-two years, a teacher at Colchester. Throughout the ceremony, she stood alongside Jeremy, shaking his hand when he was showing signs of distress, and leaving little guessing his own feelings.
"He laughed, showed itself
insolent with
waitresses, giving
slaps on the buttocks "
MALCOLM WATERS, friend Bamber
Bamber leaves the court in Chelmsford charged with a robbery in the trailer park home, he comes to enjoy a measure of bail.
Caffel Colin, the father of twins Daniel and Nicholas, laid on the coffin of Sheila a ring of yellow roses, her favorite flowers. The wreath was accompanied by the message: "Dear Sheila, I will think of you forever and our children. Tenderly, Colin."
An unknown person had added a crown of pink roses and white daisies, along with a "message of the twins" "We will be together again soon, mummy, D & N."
The twins were buried on August 19 after a funeral ceremony in the church of St James Hampstead. Crushed by grief, the father could not hold back her tears while reading from the coffins covered with flowers in the history of his favorite son, The Little Prince.
The two small coffins were laid in the tomb, where they then placed the urn containing the ashes of their mother.
Three days after the tragedy, David and Christine Eaton Boutflour had searched the farm. They knew that to get twenty-five lashes of fire, and then reload the weapon twice, required skill and coordination. According to them, Sheila would have been incapable of such a manual skill.
Echoing the work of the police, they went into the office of Nevill Bamber, where the latter kept his guns. The police there had not found anything meaningful, but Boutflour discovered immediately silent. He examined it and realized that he could adapt to a 22 gauge shotgun.
Family Survey
The brother and sister continued their investigations into a house they knew on the fingertips. Mrs. Eaton interests include the kitchen window. It appeared she had been locked from the outside while appearing to be from within. Meanwhile, Boutflour found blood stains inside the quiet and small scratches on the chimney of the kitchen.
He immediately made by the police, but they showed such a lack of interest in the revelations they came for the quiet as two days later.
On the eve of the death of his adoptive parents, Jeremy earned nearly nine thousand pounds a year (about 90 000 F) as manager of the field of White House, he also had a third interest in a field of twenty hectares and an interest of eight percent in the trailer park home. It was now about to inherit a fortune amounting to several hundreds of thousands of pounds (millions of francs).
The indictment of Jeremy Bamber aroused the public interest: could it be that there was a thief and a murderer in the same family?
September 8, residents of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, who knew all the ease of Bamber, were surprised to learn that he had been arrested in a London flat by police in Essex. He was charged with burglary in a case dating back to the previous March due to the disappearance of the Trailer Park for an amount equivalent to 10,000 francs.
"Everything was
Jeremy was to
ask the waitresses
where to find cocaine "
LIZ REMINGTON, a friend of Julie
The next day, Bamber appeared in court in Chelmsford. Unusually for a case of relatively minor importance, his bail was refused. Did this mean that the police were using the charge of burglary to retain Bamber and ask him about other cases?
It does not seem that this has been the case since September 13, Bamber was placed on bail, he went immediately to St. Tropez.
Bamber was not going to France with Julie Mugford, but with Brett Collins, a friend met years earlier in New Zealand, he had found in England.
Temporarily freed from the influence of a lover authoritarian, demanding and charismatic, Julie Mugford had time to think. Something troubled her deeply. In leaving her alone to go on holiday with Brett Collins, Bamber tried a dangerous gamble.
This bet would fail. At the end of September, Julie went to the Essex Police, to report to police for months that Bamber had nurtured the ambition of killing his parents. She added that he had intended to commit a perfect crime: the initial plan was to use drugs, then shoot them and set fire to the house, but he then changed his mind because the house was insured are too weak for an antique and value (a clock) would have been destroyed.
The police were all ears. Bamber's girlfriend was her spirit of their state facts that had escaped, or she lied out of spite or for any other opinion?
Julie Mugford explained that Jeremy Bamber hated his mother (whom he called "old cow"), and he wanted to sever ties with his family.
When Julie asked him why he did not leave, he replied: "I have too much to lose. It's important to have money when you're young."
August 6, the day before the killing, Bamber had telephoned Julie: his decision was made. "It will be tonight or never," he had discarded. She told him not to do foolish things, he hung up. The investigators noted that, by his own admission, did not call Julie Bamber family farm to warn him.
A policeman collects samples from the blue Citroen Jeremy Bamber. When the young man on charges for burglary, police began to suspect him of murder.
At three o'clock in the morning, the telephone had rung again with Julie. Bamber was: "Everything is going well", he had blown, which had been shivering Julie. "Do not worry. There is something wrong on the farm. Hi darling, I love you!"
She added that before the start of Bamber to Saint-Tropez, she announced that she was becoming too difficult to hide the truth. Bamber had replied that his life was in his hands.
THE QUIET
The mufflers were invented in the early years of the twentieth century by an industrialist, Hiram Maxim, assisted by his son Hudson. This device uses a large cylinder containing a number of metal plates, perforated to allow the passage of the ball.
These plates hold the combustion gases, the velocity is not sufficient to cause the displacement of air due to the detonation.
When Julie Mugford had finished his statement, Commissioner Michael Ainsley, who had been assigned the case, decided to review the case.
When Bamber and Brett Collins landed at Dover on Sept. 30, police awaited them. The next day, Bamber was convicted of murder.
The murderous spirit
We know that experiences are
effect on personality development, but one is born
psychopath or become one?
Adoptive parents of Jeremy Bamber had tried to raise their son in compliance with certain values: duty, authority, kindness. More than a legacy, they regarded their area as a vast source of responsibility that Jeremy would have to assume.
However, it soon became apparent that growing up, their adopted children showed signs of severe psychological and mental disturbances. Jeremy, rude and boastful, concealed rage that animated before becoming an assassin; Sheila gave vent to his ramblings and fantasies, but remained a loving mother and caring.
According to Dr. Alan Cooklin, director of the Institute of Family Therapy, the mental disorder does not exist in an individual as such, but is "a dance" which involved all family members. When a member is stabilized, another is in crisis because the trauma has to find an outlet.
Jeremy and Sheila reacted violently against their mother's habit of using biblical sentences constantly in his conversation, and keep her dozens of Bibles. Jeremy came to nourish contempt for religion, while Sheila is shaped a personal mysticism tinged with dementia: in the grip of paranoid visions, sometimes she screamed curses at his neighbors.
June Sheila Bamber had called "the daughter of the devil" when, at the age of seventeen, she had expressed an interest in boys. As for Jeremy, he was treated like an irresponsible by his father, who enjoyed little appetite for the pleasures of his son.
The opposition
Sheila and Jeremy went completely against the wishes of their parents. Became the first model, posed nude for pictures, became pregnant out of wedlock and separated from the father of her children. The second, which we wanted to make a strong and dedicated farmer, became a young man arrogant and hedonistic.
The people of Tolleshunt d'Arcy and the parents of Bamber, such as Boutflour, knew how poisonous atmosphere prevailed at the farm of the White House. Robert Boutflour had even heard Jeremy say it would be easy to kill his parents. Under these conditions, how come no one has approached the impending tragedy? Reported some evidence at trial provided a glimpse into the reasons for this gulf of misunderstanding.
Dr. Cooklin also suggests that adoptive parents sometimes appear too critical, fearing a blood "unclean" does not interfere with their families through the adopted child. It also highlights the lack that is an adoptive mother to the fact that he had not experienced pregnancy and childbirth.
Prior to sentence him to life imprisonment, the judge stressed the psychological nature of the personality of Bamber (in the article above cons).
The depression of Sheila monopolized all the attention and all concerns. Bamber was probably aware of it, as it did coincide with the time of the killing of a serious depressive attack his sister. Bamber could not achieve independence by breaking the financial ties that bound him to his family and taking a job, or he agreed to follow the path laid for him by his adoptive father.
But he could not bring himself to choose the first solution and was clearly not the second, so it really did not know who he was.
Contradictions
Julie Mugford, he acted as master, he also managed to convince several weeks to conceal his guilt, but with Brett Collins, Bamber would have been more passive - acceding to the wishes and orders of the latter.
Finally, erupted in rage against his adoptive parents who demanded that he Menat life under the sign of duty, Bamber believed to be master of its own existence.
IV JUDGEMENT
When Jeremy Bamber finally appeared before his judges,
the case turned into a direct confrontation: Julie
Mugford ensured that Bamber had confessed his guilt,
Bamber was content to assert his innocence.
Jeremy Bamber's trial opened Tuesday, Oct. 2, 1986 at Chelmsford Assizes, the debates were chaired by a judge of the Supreme Court, Mr. Drake. Bamber had secured the services of one of the most prominent criminal lawyers in Britain, Sir David Napley.
During his detention, Bamber decided to get rid of his local attorney, whom he had lost confidence. His application for legal aid was then accepted, but the magistrates of Maldon fixed fees to twenty-six books (260 F) per hour. At the hearing on October 28, 1985, Bamber had protested, saying that he was entitled to counsel of his choice, he benefited from it for legal aid or not, what Mr. George Ginn, to whom appeared the defendant had replied curtly: "No, you did not. A London lawyer would represent an additional expense, when there are defenders there."
A new champion
Sir David Napley recently had to pay a hundred thirty-five pounds (1350 F) per hour to represent the City of Bristol, but an arrangement was finally passed, by which Sir David Napley gave instruction to Geoffrey Rivlin, lawyer Crown to represent Bamber. The Crown is represented by Anthony Arlidge, another lawyer from the Crown.
"He certainly knew that
if his parents, sister and
his nephews died, the
his family fortune
would "
ANTHONY Arlidge, General Counsel
Wearing a dark suit with pinstripes, looked very young when Bamber took place in the dock. Charged with five murders, he pleaded not guilty. From time to time, he raised his eyebrows and opened his eyes wide with an expression of innocence extensively studied, before the five women and seven men who made up the jury.
Mr. Arlidge described first in terms expressive of the barbaric aggression of the farm White House. Twenty-five shots were fired, fifteen closely. The Advocate General then dwells at length on the supposed grounds Bamber - although it is not compulsory in British courts to establish the nature of the reasons if there is conclusive evidence of the guilt of the accused.
Bamber had seen drafts of the will of his father and his adoptive mother. "He knew that if his parents, sister and nephew died, the family fortune he would," growled Arlidge. In summary, Bamber inherit some four hundred thirty-six thousand pounds (more than four million francs).
Once this phase of the trial, it became clear that they were going to attend a series of duels between witnesses and lawyers, made of tough questions duels, bitter responses, accusations of deceit, treachery and violence, and denial full of challenge. Although not a great orator, Arlidge had the gift of penetrating the heart of each event.
Clash of the evidence
Despite the jumble of clues and sometimes controversial technical elements (the gun, the silencer, the footprints, the phone call to the police station in Chelmsford), Arlidge emphasized that the case would revolve around the clash of testimonies from two young men, old friends and lovers: Jeremy Bamber and Julie Mugford.
One by one, police officers who had supervised hours of the farm White House came to describe that fateful night. The Chief Inspector Cook had to admit serious mistakes. He did not put on gloves to hold the gun, and had not thoroughly searched the closet of the office, which would ultimately be found the quiet.
More seriously, Cook had negligently lost a hair found on the silent and had not even told that loss. In its summary of facts, the judge was sent to Cook a severe reprimand.
As we traced the course of the excavation of the farm White House, the personality of Sheila came to center stage. Jeremy Bamber was now to be measured by two women, one dead and one alive.
On the fifth day of trial, when David Boutflour came to the witness stand, jurors had an overview of the divisions that existed within the Bamber family.
The uncle and aunt of Jeremy Bamber, Robert and Pamela Boutflour, learned how their son David had discovered indications that the culprit was Bamber. Julie Mugford, Bamber former friend and chief prosecution witness, left the court.
Boutflour described a search he had done on the farm with her sister, Mrs.. Eaton, and the reasons that had impelled to do so. He described the discovery of the silent, how the kitchen window open and close, scratches on the kitchen chimney, and the bicycle he had found abandoned on a road behind the house.
On October 9 in the morning, the prosecution called its star witness the bar, Julie Mugford. In a trembling voice, she spoke of the months in which the idea of ??killing Jeremy fed his family had turned into a real assassination plot. She told the jury that Bamber had claimed killing rats with his bare hands to harden in anticipation of the carnage, and did not depart at any time of his confession to police.
A terrible encounter
Julie Bamber told he met in the hours following the killings. They had kissed, then he whispered: "I should be an actor."
A few weeks later, the two young men had discussed the matter at a dinner at the restaurant.
"I said I felt bad for both of us and I wanted him to know how I felt," said Julie Mugford. "He said he had done a service to everyone, and there was no reason to feel guilty about anything."
"I said I did not know what to say or do, and he asked me not to do foolish things."
Arlidge asked the woman why she had not confided earlier to the police. This was a very important issue. By his own admission, Julie Mugford had not phoned the White House farm to prevent the occupants that Jeremy was planning to kill them. Its credibility would depend on his response. She said: "First, I would not believe what I thought. I was afraid to believe it. Jeremy had said that if anything happened to him, that happen to me too. He said I could be involved in these crimes because I was aware of everything. "
Spiritual contact
Julie was a strong young woman, in whom we detected a certain fervor. She had responded directly to questions and there was not detected in his speech compromising fault. However, the end of his testimony raised some confusion in the jury, taken aback to hear Julie why she had agreed to identify the bodies of the victims in the morgue: she said she hoped that seeing the bodies of Sheila Caffel and June Bamber could establish a spiritual contact with their soul and get their advice.
"Jeremy and I were two
to know what person
one else knew ... I
could speak
normally to others
because it haunted me "
Julie Mugford
October 11, was read into the room of the foundations of a letter from June Bamber, on which were inscribed the words "Not to be opened before my death":
"My darlings. If something were to happen to me and I leave you, I write these words to tell you I love you and thank you for everything you gave me. Everything I'm asking is that God loves you and protects you throughout the years to come, and we can be together one day, my darlings. eternal love. Mom. "
In the dock, Jeremy burst into tears.
October 16, Geoffrey Rivlin, Bamber defender, began his argument. Similarly qu'Arlidge, Rivlin proved able to capture the attention of jurors with images and statements clear and sharp.
"The defense theory is simple: Jeremy did not commit these crimes," he said, "and the prosecution must prove, without any scope for doubt well founded, he has committed. "
Rivlin then buckled the unenviable task of demonstrating that Sheila was prone to illusions morbid, psychotic character, including the belief that her children were responding to evil forces, and was possessed by the devil.
"She began to feed complex ideas about children, like having sex with them, inflicting violence or suffer from them," revealed Rivlin.
As a lawyer experienced, he knew that just to blacken the memory of Sheila would not be enough to save his client. He had to describe Sheila in the guise of a character worthy of compassion, but sufficiently unstable to have committed the murders.
He failed to discredit a ballistics expert from the Ministry of Interior, Malcolm Fletcher, who had said the silent assistant rifle used on the farm of the White House was too long for Bambi could commit suicide. He had no more successful with the forensic pathologist, Dr. Peter Vaneze, who said that the four shots fired into the head of Nevill Bamber had been after it had been immobilized.
"THE PERFECT MURDER" during the trial, the press focused on the meticulous preparation of the massacre.
This testimony produced a profound effect on the jury. Whoever killed this man loved by all had first beaten to knock him out, before shooting him several times in the head. Dr. Sheila Caffel Vaneze added that not wearing marks or bruises that may indicate an involvement in a fight, as a victim or as qu'assaillante.
Confident
In his defense, Bamber hired one of the most eminent British criminal, Sir David Napley.
October 16, Bamber spoke in turn. His lawyer called one after the other five victims of the massacre of the White House, before asking if he had killed Bamber.
For each question, Bamber made the same answer, delivered in a soft voice: "No". He drank frequent sips of water, and the beginning of his testimony the judge had to ask repeatedly to speak up.
Bamber said that relationships of love bound him to his parents.
He then had to face the direct testimony of his uncle, Robert Boutflour and that of his former girlfriend Julie Mugford. Bamber went on the offensive without hesitation, saying they both perjuring.
"There are only two people who lie, I think," says Bamber. "Julie, it is especially telling stories, and Robert Boutflour, which can not be fooled."
The arrogance of Bamber broke lorsqu'Arlidge, representing the prosecution, said simply: "You do not tell the truth."
"This is what you need to establish," said Bamber.
Deny, deny always
Arlidge continued: "You killed the first four people with quiet, is not it?"
"That's not true," said Bamber.
"So you killed the muffler with Sheila?"
"Wrong."
"When you have staged the" suicide ", you realized that he had not been possible to kill with the silencer?"
"Wrong."
"At this time you change your plans and down the silent res floor?"
"No, that's not it."
"You've killed them all, is not it?"
"No, no."
Bamber was found to safer ground when he spoke of his sister, referring to his depression and religious delusions.
"She wanted to be with God," he told the court. "She wanted to go to Paradise. She wanted to take people with her, she wanted to save the world."
Bamber said his sister was much more harsh with their children than had been said - "but we in the family, we never talked about it with others." The ordeal ended after eight to Bamber hours on the witness stand. His lawyer stood up to speak for the last time the jurors.
Relapse
"Everything at our disposal indicates that that night, Sheila was heading straight for relapsed schizophrenic character, if it is not already there," said Rivlin.
"You could really talk about coincidence - if it had a very serious relapse just the night Jeremy Bamber had decided to kill everyone ... then there certainly would have been an extraordinary coincidence ... both crazy angry in the house the same night. "
The index was that the blood found on the silencer was "very unsatisfactory", according to Rivlin, who dismissed as "bizarre" the fact that Jeremy Bamber could leave lying around the gun in the house the night before. "All this would not take ten minutes in a case of shoplifting," hissed Rivlin.
"Jeremy thought he had committed the
perfect crime. He had put in
developed a plausible story and
orchestrated the killing with a lot
cunning ... but he sinned in
achieve, by not taking
account of the family "
DAVID BOUTFLOUR
"If these people had killed that night, would he have dared to ask the police to get control of Sheila? No, it does not make sense."
In concluding on behalf of the prosecution, Mr Arlidge said that "For Bamber, the only important thing was that the police pick him up so that it is firmly established that he was not in the house."
Arlidge said it was "essential for him (Bamber) that anyone would enter the house have in mind that Sheila was crazy." But the phone call to the police was the fatal mistake committed by Bamber.
In his summary, Judge Drake asked the jury to focus their discussion on three issues: Did they or Julie Mugford Bamber? Were they confident that Sheila did not kill the whole family? Nevill Bamber was there Jeremy phoned the night of the killing?
"If you are certain that Julie told the truth, it follows that the accused is lying to you," said the judge. "So if you are confident that Sheila is not the author of the killing, it also follows that you must be certain that the killer is none other than the accused."
Indecision
In the afternoon of October 27, the jury retired to deliberate. Five hours later, unable to make a decision, they were taken to a hotel for the night. The next morning, the deliberations resumed, but of course, disagreements remained.
Finally, the judge said he would accept a verdict by majority vote. After nine hours and twenty-four minutes of deliberation, the jury reached a decision.
Bamber greeted with equanimity the verdict: he had been convicted of five murders, by a majority of ten votes against two in each case.
"Your conduct in the preparation and execution of the murders of five people was that of a incredibly bad," thundered the judge. "It shows that despite your youth you have a perverted mind, insensitive, hidden under a presentable appearance and manners and civilized."
The judge added that greed and arrogance were the causes of the murders, and he condemned Bamber to five sentences of life imprisonment, recommending that the man capable of murdering two children in their sleep can not be released before twenty -at least five years. With great nonchalance, Bamber himself opened the door of the box, and then he was taken out of the room.
So for the first time, he wept without restraint, moaning:
"No, no, no ..."
