No psychiatrist especially one who makes a lucrative living out of private practice is going to admit in a court of law that he got it wrong. In very extreme cases women or men for that matter do kill their children,and in the case of someone afflicted with schizophrenia it's not their fault but can be blamed on the illness,which is an inability to separate fantasy from reality.
With nobody else in the picture Sheila was the obvious culprit and that's the direction the investigation took in the early stages. But after everything which came out about Jeremy wishing his family dead,him becoming the sole beneficiary of the estate and his behaviour and attitude after the deaths let alone the silencer evidence it was the duty of the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate,and ultimately a jury did find him guilty.
Steve, good morning. It sounds as if you are suggesting that psychiatrists making a lucrative living fro private practice go into courts prepared to be economical with the truth. If, as a result, any innocent person is convicted, the psychiatrists reputation remains untarnished. Re your comments about schizophrenics, personally, Idon't believe I've ever put the words "Sheila" and "murders" into the same sentence, because, as a schizophrenic, SHE cannot be held culpable. The "personality" which had temporarily invaded and taken control of her was responsible. The word "possession" has fallen out of favour in modern psychiatry, but it nonetheless, says very succinctly, what it is about.
I can see an irony in your second paragraph, because when you take Jeremy out of the equation, let's assume he should have died with his family, your words apply just as surely to the wider family who were known not to like him, and were probably concerned for their future lifestyle and finances when the Bank of Bamber changed hands. Alright, I grant you his behaviour wasn't admirable but I doubt that theirs was much more so, and it now seems that the silencer evidence, which they bought into play, may be flawed. I can't help but feel, that today, if a whole family ganged up, to a man, about another family member, they, and their possible motives would warrent closer investigation.
