It is a very well written piece by Jeremy Bamber, with some powerful points made. I think his assessment of the CCRC is correct.
Yes, fascinating glimpse into the mind of a genuine psychopath, who has dedicated his entire life to manipulating every single person he ever comes into contact with, as well as every single process and organization he has access to.
Over the last 40 years, it's an incredible amount of energy, basically behaving in a completely deviant way.
I know that will annoy people, but I just find it fascinating. There will be lots of people like Jeremy Bamber in the world, but none that put themselves on show like this.
That whole article is consciously trying to create an appearance of calmness, intelligence, knowledge and innocence. But the exact opposite actually applies to Jeremy Bamber as a human being.
My guilty pleasure each year is to watch I'm a celebrity, and it is often said that no one, not even an actor can play an artificially nice character for the entire period of the show, because it would drive them mad, and the cracks would show up. They would need months of counselling just to recover. But Jeremy Bamber has been doing this for 40 years.
The cracks can be seen here and there, just to confirm that the 1985 murderer is still alive and kicking inside the shell that he has created. But the psychological damage that he must have sustained over the last 4 decades must be immense.
He has become a creature from a horror film.
Interestingly, I found the article quite beige and generic. He is obviously ultra cautious and probably paranoid about coming across in any way aggressive.
It reminds me of when he used to write to Carol Ann Lee, because she published a few of his letters, and that calmness comes across in his letters to her. But when he started talking about his extended family, and even though the handwriting doesn't change at all, you can really sense a change of mood.
The darkness is instant, and the language changes. He talked about his family all gorging on his inheritance.
The sense of entitlement comes back.
The anger comes back, like when he used to tell people how much he hated his parents back in the day, and the unnerving attitude that he carried and conveyed. It all, temporarily, comes back.
And then in the next letter, Jeremy Bamber apologizes for his rant.
So yes, reading this, where he is trying to convince people of his innocence, is fascinating from a psychological point of view. And a little voyeuristic too, I suppose.
