The police said they found Nevill downstairs in the kitchen, dressed in pyjamas, amid a scene that suggested there had been a struggle, though Bamber's lawyers suggested at appeal that some or all of the mayhem in the kitchen may have been caused by the armed police when they broke into the house.[46] Nevill's body was slumped forward over an overturned chair next to the fireplace, his head resting just above a coal scuttle. The police said chairs and stools were overturned, and there was broken crockery, a broken sugar basin, and what looked like blood on the floor. A ceiling light lampshade had been broken. A telephone was lying on one of the surfaces with its receiver off the hook, and several .22 shells beside it. He had been shot eight times, six times to the head and face, fired when the rifle was a few inches from his skin. The remaining shots to his body had occurred from at least two feet away. Based on where the empty cartridges were found—three were in the kitchen, and one on the stairs—the police concluded he had been shot four times upstairs, but had managed to get downstairs where a struggle took place, during which he was hit several times with the rifle and shot again, this time fatally.[47]
The above is from Wikipedia:The White House Murders. It does not specifically state that Nevill Bamber is shot in the bedroom,but if not he could have telephoned from there,except the phone which had been in the Bambers' bedroom was found downstairs in the kitchen,and the kitchen phone had been put under some magazines. I don't understand how Nevill can make a call after he has been attacked with the gun physically,as he would not be able to speak properly,and if he did not make the call in the bedroom he had to have made it in the kitchen,but there is no blood on the phone.
If Neville Bamber is coming downstairs wounded as the blood trail suggests why does he not try to reach for a gun in the gun cupboard. He apparently has the strength of two hands to dial two telephone numbers,yet the line goes dead after only one sentence.
Is it not more likely that Neville Bamber heard an intruder upstairs and was shot,then managed to get downstairs to try and reach the gun that was left on the settle by Jeremy the previous night. He did not make any phone call. Then realizing that the intruder was Jeremy who had taken the gun he fought for his life,which would explain the brutality of his injuries. The left side of his lip was wounded, his jaw was fractured,his teeth,neck and larynx were damaged.He had black eyes,broken nose,bruising to the cheeks,cuts to the head,bruising to the right forearm and circular burn-type marks on his back which suggest he was hit with the rifle. This makes the injuries far more likely to have been made by Jeremy than Sheila,who seemed to be like a zombie when she answered the phone call the previous evening(was it Pamela that rang) and looked like she was in the middle of her period,which might also explain why June Bamber missed her church meeting that last night. It's also suspicious that the cellphone wasn't working,all these events when Jeremy was sniffing around,who knew that the whole family would be at the farm that evening and had phoned Julie Mugford saying "Tonight's the night".
As for the telephone logs,is there indisputable evidence that one call was made from White House Farm and one from Jeremy's cottage at Goldhanger? Do we know definitively that both Police telephone logs were contemporaneous,or was it possible one had been written retrospectively?
