As everybody knows,Jeremy was convicted for allegedly murdering his family in order to gain the family inheritance.
But there appeared to be arguments,jealousy and disatisfaction running throughout the WHOLE family.
It has been said that Anthony Pargeter was arguing with Nevill over money issues prior to Nevills death.
Anthony was also said to have been furious that Nevill gifted Jeremy a farm(again prior to the murders) that Anthony had felt should have remained in the Pargeter family.
The Eatons needed Nevill to purchase Peter Eatons brothers land in order that they could purchase it back at a later date.
And when Ann Eaton told Jeremy of her intentions to purchase Vaulty Manor Farm,(the Speakman family home)Jeremy confided to her that Nevill intended to purchase it.Ann was so furious at this information that she tore down all the wallpaper in one of the bathrooms at Oak Farm! Yet another farm that Nevill had a share in (allegedly half-owned).
It appears to me that the Boutflours/Eatons may have resented the Bamber family?It seems as if Nevill was attempting to buy up most of the Speakman empire.Business was,for him and June,thriving,whilst at the same time,the Boutflours/Eatons were said to have had financial problems.
I personally think that it was criminal of EP that they did not investigate the entire family.
Excellent post, Tyler! Another, related issue is that of Nevill's financial position prior to his marriage to June.
Nevill had been a lowly agricultural student of June's Uncle at a college in Gloucestershire when he met June Speakman. He must have been an able student as RB brought Nevill down to Essex to work on June's father's farm, he and June met at a dance, I believe.
Although Nevill's father and grandfather were soldiers and later civil servants in the British Raj, their standard of life would have dropped substantially when they returned to England and retired. With huge troops of children and a couple of servants to keep, Nevill's retired grandfather and father may soon have exhausted any savings they brought back from India. Properties here would have been far more expensive than those the Bambers had owned in Bengal and the cost of living and of employing servants would have far more expensive.
Grandfather and father Bamber did not buy farms when they returned to UK, they instead settled down as lowly civil service pensioners. Nevill's grandfather may have inherited a share in his father's farm during his service period in India, however, given the troop of children the Bambers had, any unspent residue from that would have been split between the grandfather and his siblings.
In the 1940s to 50s when Nevill was brought down to Essex to labour on June's father's farm, inheriting a share in his parents' £100k house was a long way off for Nevill. So what was Nevill's financial postion then? Wasn't he the poor boy of the family, merely a lowly agricultural student working on a farm when he married June and was given the tenancy of White House Farm?
If so, Nevill was a poor boy who appears to have become the richest of them all, allegedly owning shareholdings in June family's farms.
