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Yes. The defence mentioned it at trial. Susan went to the police after Julie had finished her WS. Julie also admitted the fraud using Susan's cheque book a month after her WS had been completed. I suspect both people felt if they were going to be involved in a major trial, they should be honest about their previous minor crime. Julie had already been honest, mentioning the caravan break in.
Being honest would have been not committing the crime in the first place, NOT as you admit, only owning up to it because they were going to be involved in a major trial.
Ok. Both Julie and Jeremy lied under oath. They had both committed crimes previously so are not honest. Guess we have to go on the other witnesses & evidence.
Which brings us very neatly back to the point that the evidence, the WHOLE evidence and (in places) NOTHING of the evidence was put to the jury. For me, this isn 't so much about whether Jeremy is guilty or innocent, it's more about the fairness, or not, of his trial.
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=289.0Seems like it was a joint decision. Encouraged by Jeremy. Susan a willing participant & using her own cheque book. Both Julie & Susan admitting to it, apoloising to the bank manager & paying the money back. The main issue is the police had nothing to blackmail Julie with, to create a false WS & diary after she first went to visit them.
I created a thread on the trial fairness. Did not get much evidence of what was unfair or held back. There was a mountain of circumstantial evidence. Together with the forensic evidence - silencer, Sheilas body condition. Together with other witnesses.
So you could use the same argument with regard to Jeremy as well. What has the break in at the caravan site got to do with this case?
You were given the evidence of how unfair the trial was. You just didn't believe it. But you did get answers.
It was a crime committed by Jeremy against his family. It involved both the suspect & the main witness. It was followed by a further crime against Jeremys family. By Jeremy. Jeremy trusted Julie enough to include Julie in his caravan break in. Would he trust her enough to ring her at 3.00am ?
So perhaps he recognized that having established her criminal capabilities with fraud using someone else's cheque book, she wouldn't be too squeamish about doing a tiny robbery on an establishment that Jeremy had shares in anyway.