I have some questions and comments about what happened after 7th September.
If I get any of this wrong, feel free to correct me. 
As I understand it, Julie Mugford went to the police on 7th September and told them that Jeremy had hired a hitman to kill his family. Jeremy and Matthew McDonald were arrested on 8th September and interviewed for several days.
Were they in custody at this time?
Julie Mugford and Elizabeth Rimington stayed at some kind of police training school whilst they made their statements - that took until 12th September. What did they do after that?
Jeremy was bailed from the police station on 13th September, so what did he do? Did he attempt to contact Julie Mugford to ask her why on earth she had made up such stories about him? No, he went on holiday to the South of France after breaking into the farm to get some documents. He returned on 29th September and was arrested as soon as set foot in the UK. I presume he was remanded in custody after that.
Who did he go on holiday with?
I find it quite odd that he went on holiday. After all, his ex had just accused him of a heinous crime, and although he was released, you'd think he'd be worried and try to get to the bottom of it wouldn't you?
Was Julie Mugford under police protection or what?
Stan Jones would tell all and sundry that Julie knew ‘too much inside information’ for her story to be anything but the truth. Stan wasn’t aware, or chose to ignore, that all she was saying he had heard before – from the Eatons, Boutflours and Carrs.
It’s also a matter of interest that on the very morning of the tragedy, Julie Mugford was picked up by an as yet unidentified metropolitan police officer and brought to the Blackwall tunnel where she was handed over and brought to Colchester to meet up with Jeremy and the rest of the relatives. Despite a thorough investigation by City of London Police (COLP) in 1991, COLP were unable to identify the Metropolitan police officer who picked her up from her home address in London. What are the odds that Rob Carr was that police officer?
It happened to be on the very same day that relatives went to see the deputy Chief Constable (Peter Wright) to ask for the case to be reinvestigated that Julie Mugford decided to see the police. Same day too that Robert Boutflour started to type out his diary extracts, which contained all manner of suggestions as to why the family believed Jeremy had killed his family. (These so-called Diary Entries were later presented to the police and given an exhibit number RWB/1 but were never recorded in the police property books or presented in court; nor did Robert Boutflour refer to the contents of these Diary Entries in any of his witness statements.) What Julie Mugford had to say to the police was starkly similar to these writings. Call it a coincidence if you will. But not only does Julie Mugford and the Boutflour-Eaton stories gel too nicely together, both parties just happen to make the very same mistakes.
http://youknowwhokilledyoudontyou.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/innocent-man-part-8.htmlBack in 1991 the City of London Police had investigated Essex Police they detailed a list of crimes which Julie had confessed to carrying out undetected These included, taking cannabis, selling cannabis, accessory to burglary at the caravan park, smuggling drugs back into the UK from Canada, and cheque book fraud. (11) Julie Mugford was never charged with any of these offences officially, but documents newly surfaced show that she was charged with burglary and this was withdrawn with permission from the DPP’s office, in the same document Julie is also advised she will be called as a prosecution witness. At the 2002 appeal the Defence put forward the suggestion that Julie Mugford and her friend and co-fraudster Susan Battersby had been given immunity from prosecution as a trade off for Julie’s testimony against Jeremy Bamber but the documents relating to this were under Public Interest Immunity. (12)
DCI Dickinson had interviewed Julie Mugford and her mother in 1986 after the trial but the interviews have never been disclosed to the Defence. The City of London Police suspected that Julie Mugford was given immunity from prosecution and after they followed the paper trail to the CPS they discovered that there were documents not to be disclosed to the Defence. Indeed the CPS had in their possession a file known as the “Confidential Crown Prosecution Service File relating to Julie Mugford and Trial preparation by Essex Police.” This file was passed to the Senior Crown Prosecutor known as Mr Stephen Swan. For the 2002 appeal the Metropolitan police tried to trace this file and took a statement from Mr Swan who stated that “I cannot remember who gave me the file, or who I gave it to after I had finished reading it.” The mystery remains: What happened to the confidential file and what was in it and is it right that the Defence should be denied access to these materials?
The Defence has also suggested that Julie’s statements were not written in the first person, senior police officers even questioned why she was writing in the third person. The grammar used in many of the statements is well below the standard of a student doing a degree at Masters level which further suggests that Julie didn’t write all of the statements herself. For example she told police “Matthew done it.” (13) During the period when Julie and her friend gave statements she was put up by police at their training centre and claimed expenses.Quite incredibly she was also seen by DS Jones the principal detective in this case no less than 32 times. (14)
http://jeremybamber.org/julie-mugford/
