Hello Daniel
I cannot disagree with what you are saying just think if Ralph Bamber had serious doubts about Jeremy killing him he would have taken more positive steps and kept all the guns under lock and key. I always feel it is difficult to relay a sentence to another as it can loose the context of how it was meant. He may have been disappointed in the way Jeremy was performing on the farm and meant I will be watching him who knows I was not present at the time. The very same Barbara Wilson seems to have stated she thought more about Jeremy than her own son. As I have said earlier I would never be so arrogant to say what you are saying is not correct because I just don't know. Perhaps you can give me your thoughts on where was Sheila when Jeremy was shooting June and Ralph and the twins she was not sedated we know that from the PM report and she would have fought anyone to save her boys.
OK Susan lets air this particular issue. Of course there is no hard evidence as to what occurred exactly that night in the master bedroom. We can only speculate according to the way we interpret the evidence. I really dont think there is much of a mystery there. He could have just shot everyone while Sheila slept. Nevil and June certainly were not found in the twins bedroom, and I believe they were probably shot first, but June and Nevill were not roused or at least didn't make it outside of their own bedroom before being attacked. It may well be the fight in the kitchen - which would have been noisy - that finally woke Sheila, whereupon she got up and found the carnage in the bedroom. Bamber had her trapped in a house that was locked and with no means of calling for help.
However, my speculation of how this happened is thus;
I suspect Bamber crept into the twins bedroom first and shot them while they slept. This did not arouse Sheila. The sound suppressor fitted to the rifle meant that the noise would have been minimal. Sheila's bedroom was close. He crept in and awoke her. What he told her will probably never be known, but it was enough to alarm her. It is possible that Bamber threatened to harm her children (not knowing that he had already shot them in their beds) if she did not comply. Any mother in this situation would comply. He may well have tied her or restrained her somehow; anything to hold her there until the parents were finished off. Once done he coaxed her into her parents bedroom (he needed her to be found there to back up the belief that Sheila had run amok and killed everyone) whereupon Sheila would have certainly seen the prostrate body of her mother making her completely petrified and totally compliant. I suspect that he told her to pray for June (hence the bible found at the scene) and he told her to close her eyes and lie down. He then swiftly pushed the rifle under her chin and pulled the trigger. Thinking she was dead Bamber went to survey his handiwork including the fatal mistake of putting the silencer back in the cupboard. On his return he realised to his horror that Sheila was still alive, her breathing shallow but still alive. He then shot her a second time - this time fatally.
I believe that this theory is just as plausible as any given here.
