Thanks HB.
As I say,I may have to write a post on why it is absurd to believe that Julie thought JB was guilty before the police tried to tell her so.
I mean,just a quick instance.Julie leaves Goldhanger around 27th Aug and breaks the news that JB was responsible for the murder of his family to Susan Battersby the next day.Now the WHF murders was a huge story at the time,one of the worst shootings in British history.Yet apparently Julie tells Susan not to tell a sole that JB had his family killed,and lo and behold she agrees.
Indeed Susan is too scared to go to the police anyway incase JB finds out and goes after her.So,a tricky situation,what to do next? Well,on the 28th,the day after Susan is told there is a birthday party for Julie and what do you know,JB is invited.
Now,as I said the Bamber murders is huge news at that time,in all the papers and on TV,its a tragedy of epic proportion,and up until that time everyone thought that Sheila was responsible,in fact it had been put to rest in this regard.Now,in this climate and totally out of the blue Susan is told that it was actually JB who had his family killed.Can you imagine the shock at such news? Surely there would be no doubt in most peoples mind that the police would inevitabily have to be informed and advise Julie to steer well clear of someone who was obviously a psychpath who must be off his head. in the mean time.
But no,Susan agrees to keep quiet about JBs involvement because Julie couldn't stand the thought of JB being sent to prison.Yes,Julie's still in love with the psycho and doesn't want the killer of women and children to pay for his crimes,indeed she apparently guarenteed JB on more than one occasion that she wouldn't turn him in.
Yes,THIS IS the official story,plus the fact that Julie didn't know her concious from her subconcious mind of course,well,we all get mixed up in that particular area,dont we?
Never mind,Susan has agreed to keep her mouth shut and Julie's party is in full swing the next day when JB arrives with a car load of booze.
Now,you would expect Susan to steer well clear of JB wouldn't you? It must have given her a chill being in hs presence knowing what he had done.But no,Susan is in a happy mood and has been spraying guests with cream before JBs arrival,and rather than steer clear of him she jokingly and light heartedly threatens to spray him too! Extraordinary!
JB gets annoyed with Susans unrelenting prank however and eventually throws the Julie's birthday cake at her.Susan runs up stairs in tears,devastated that JB wouldn't caper about with her.
Susan still keeps her mouth shut though about what she knows,not divulging a word to Lizzie who comforts her.
Lizzie of course is next to be told by Julie about JBs involvement,needless to say she keeps her mouth shut too and life seems to carry on as normal with JB helping Julie to move flats and so on.
The fact is everyone seems to carry on as normal until AFTER Julie allegedly goes to the police,no one treated JB ANY differently after they were told what he had done.and JB didn't talk of any suspicious behaviour towards him from anyone.
Liz was apparently in a state of shock though after being told about JB and locked her doors in case JB came after her
Then the confrontation happened of course on 4th sept ,yet Julie phoned the next day about helping her move to new digs.This was done,and on the same day Julie asked for June's bike,sadly JB had forgot to take it.
Then,lo and behold,Julie and Lizzie get into the car with JB and Brett who take them to Piccadilly to go nightclubbing.Didn't Lizzie fear for her life any more getting into a car with a psycho?
Then,for some reason the holiday that Julie and Lizzie were planning is abandoned and they tell Malcolm Waters about JB before going to the police.
So,although Julie could not stand the thought of JB in jail and had promised him over and over again that she would not go to the police,that is exactly what she did apparently.
Does all this sound in the least bit plausable? Its absurd! And took months to prepare.
You've got some dates wrong snow66! but leaving that aside you're also missing the bigger picture. Jeremy's adoption, his upbringing, his being packed off to Gresham's in Holt, Norfolk at nine years old, his alienation from both environments and failure to bond with his parents, who subsequently rejected his first love Suzette, abandoned by Jeremy under threat of disinheritance, the Osea Road break-in, the denial in prison that the familial relationships were anything other than harmonious: all could serve as a template for a family annihilator, which is what Jeremy Bamber is.
To blame Julie in any way for the murders is cowardly and disingenuous.
