I'm not talking about her plans to sell a news story, I'm talking about how you're trying to pass the buck regards the provocative poses. That was Julie not AG - and no matter how much you try and twist things around, you won't change that!! She said (as part of her contract) she had to do pictures, but no one 'forced' her into lifting her skirt for a story that involved the deaths of 5 people - 5 deaths which (if you believe her - and YOU do) she could have prevented!! Even if I thought Jeremy Bamber was guilty, I would still be appalled by the testimony of Julie Mugford because she claims to have known of the plans for a full year and yet did nothing because she wanted to be Mrs Jeremy Bamber and she would have been too, had he not dumped her when he discovered how possessive she was - and as it turned out - vengeful - as he found out to his detriment!!
Jeremy Bamber was damaged goods before he even met Julie. He had an affair with Suzette Ford whom he told "let's make babies",but tragically for all concerned none were produced. Winding the story on Sheila is presented with two babies and a flat in a fashionable area of London,and due to her illness is unable to support them properly without help from her parents. All this is building up resentment in Jeremy as he farms the drab landscape of Essex stuck inside a tractor with a canopy,and unbeknownst to his parents he plots his revenge inside this vehicle as he counts the furlongs to his freedom.
Julie is an outsider just as DCI Taff Jones was to the Essex scene and both fall for Jeremy's charm in their own way. Julie is sidetracked by the incredible pressure of a teaching career which is impossible at the best of times,particularly in its inception when you have no routine to follow. Add on Jeremy's hatred for his parents which the Jeremy supporters never acknowledge and would gain more credibility with myself if they did,an occasion which Jeremy found too tempting to miss when the whole family would stay under one roof,his knowledge of guns which had earned him a modicum of respect among his peers at Gresham's from a boy desperate for any kind of attention,a lightning storm which had disrupted the telephone system and Sheila in a vacant state due to mistakes with her medication,and Jeremy suddenly sees a possible way out. Of course he's not a psychopath and wouldn't normally have the gumption to proceed with the wicked plan,but with the help of a dose of cocaine coupled with the cannabis already in his system he is set on his deadly course. When the cocaine wears off he remembers little of his evil rampage and sticks to his maxim of "tell the truth wherever possible". The difficult questions he avoids at every turn and is unable to attack Julie without incriminating himself,which is why he has never done so.
