I think Snow with any interview you do get Good Cop Bad Cop and it's been like this for a long while, Obviously the Bad cop is going to look the worst out of it and the one who has a Grudge. To be fair to Stan, i didn't think he was too Bad at it. I Don't think they put him under a lot of pressure to be honest it doesn't matter if you think him innocent or Guilty this was a Five person Murder investigation not a Handbag theft there was always going to be difficult Questions.
I covered this part a little Snow
He even got that desperate that he lied to JB about both shots to Sheila being fatal.and that it was a FACT that she had been murdered..............................................Now, if you was told this by a Detective and you was innocent, how would an innocent Person Answer this Question, knowing the fact the first bullett would have killed Sheila and Sheila and your Mum Dad And Twins was murdered by someone else? Would you Counter this with "no i don't believe that" offer alteratives or would you be in a complete Shock and Break down with such News?
I don't think they pushed him enough on it and i think it was down to the fact it wasn't stone wall proveable, but JB wasn't to know this, unless he was certain she was still alive after the first shot, he even includes Automatic Gun, nerves and the Dog as a Counter?
He has to still insist it could be Sheila, "WHY" Because he had set the scene in the first place by saying his Father had rang to say "Sheila" had got the Gun? He does try to counter this as well by saying it could have been the words "SHE" i heard.
I just dont really see much wrong with the way JB conducted himself at all during the interviews HB.
It would have been quite obvious to JB from the start that Stan was going to use every trick in the book to get him to incriminate himself.Just how was JB supposed to react when he was told Sheila had been murdered,maybe he thought a hitman had been involved after all.How could he know what actually happened if he was innocent? And if so,only the police had investigated the crime scene,so he had to simply go by what they told him.
Most of the no comments started when he was asked if he still loved Julie,now just how could he answer that? Julie was the reason he was sitting there in the interview room for heavens sake!
I believe another no comment was made when asked if Sheila was a crack shot with a rifle which was simply a silly question to be avoided as ILB pointed out.
To put it another way,I dont personally see clues to Bambers guilt in the interviews.As for the melodic answers and twanging threads of his jumper,remember he had been interviewed intensively for three days.Surely any such behaviour can be put down to boredom and weariness through answering the same repetative questions over and over again?
We have to look at the effect of the whole three days of interviews and not just pick out bits that make JB look like a 'psychopath' due to lapses of interest,attention or odd behaviour.Remember,Stan lost it from time to time through frustration at the lack of any progress with Bamber.
One other point,at one stage Stan told JB that his family was shot twenty times all on target,hinting that Sheila was incapable of this,however the reaction they got was one of only revulsion from JB at the thought of the brutal way his family had died,he even turned white,could a psychopath fake this response?
