Mr Justice Drake - trial Judge

[mike tesko]

Mr Justice Drake - trial Judge

[shonapugs]

O.K., Mike, tell us more................

[mike tesko]

O.K., Mike, tell us more................

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Freemason...

[shonapugs]

Oh, blimey. Right.

[Jackiepreece]

Is he dead or alive?

[shonapugs]

Mike, what are you doing here? Apart from the picture of Justice Drake, we've all seen this stuff. What are you saying to us?

[Elizabeth]

Shonapugs, i think he has put them them up so we can discuss each one individually. I think it is a good idea.

[TheBrilliantMistake]

Having seen Mike's recent postings (aka The Identity Parade) I can pinpoint at least four of 'em wot look like they dunnit!

[shonapugs]

Hi, Elizabeth. Good post, but I'm not sure that we should judge someone from a grainy, tabloid image. At the risk of suddenly disappearing, like Sparks and all the other cool mavericks (!)  out there, I have to say that for the last few weeks I have thought that Julie, the massively dodgy flake that she was, was probably telling the truth, that someone was paid to assassinate the family. After reading everything that is out there, it's the only theory that works for me.

[TheBrilliantMistake]

I think it far more likely that JB bragged to her and fed her the 'hitman' line.

If a hitman DID do it, then JB's a tad unlucky hasn't he !... the near perfect murder (lousy phrase that) and yet HE gets the blame for it and the hitman gets away? Possible - but unlikely.

ALL of that said - there's very little to put JB at the scene. A print on the gun, but it wasn't an unexpected print - it was a gun he'd recently used, or could have been expected to have used.

You know what... in writing this, I've changed my mind. It IS feasible.
Still, he got very unlucky if the hitman DID make the call to JB's home in order to establish JB's alibi, and the ploy failed because of BT's lousy call logging!

hmmmm interesting. very interesting.

[Ajax]

I think it far more likely that JB bragged to her and fed her the 'hitman' line.

If a hitman DID do it, then JB's a tad unlucky hasn't he !... the near perfect murder (lousy phrase that) and yet HE gets the blame for it and the hitman gets away? Possible - but unlikely.

ALL of that said - there's very little to put JB at the scene. A print on the gun, but it wasn't an unexpected print - it was a gun he'd recently used, or could have been expected to have used.

You know what... in writing this, I've changed my mind. It IS feasible.
Still, he got very unlucky if the hitman DID make the call to JB's home in order to establish JB's alibi, and the ploy failed because of BT's lousy call logging!

hmmmm interesting. very interesting.

This is the one that seems to work for me as well. In JM's testimony doesn't she mention JB telling her that the "hitman" told him Nevill had put up a fight and he'd had to shoot him 7 or 8 times?

If JB paid someone to carry out the murders, he can plausibly deny being at the farm that night, because he wasn't at the farm that night. He can pass a lie detector test truthfully, and he can campaign over police evidence and trial details because he knows he didn't kill anyone, so there have to be errors intentional or accidental, somewhere for him to exploit. The one thing he can't do is admit it was someone else, because that still leaves him implicated, still in prison and a pariah in the eyes of all the people who've supported him these past 25 years.

[mike tesko]

Mike, what are you doing here? Apart from the picture of Justice Drake, we've all seen this stuff. What are you saying to us?

... Mr Justice Drake, misdirected the jury about the blood evidence, after they had already retired to consider their verdict and had sent the judge a note, asking if blood found in silencer could be a mixture of blood from parents?