Am I missing something here, but why has it suddenly become a crime to point out doubts of Bamber's innocence? Caroline is not the first 'supporter' to be left wondering if they're backing the right horse and Bamber has been exposed before, in his letters, to be sometimes less than truthful.
Or has Caroline, in some eyes, committed the ultimate sin of changing her mind? Even worse, she's having doubts in a very intelligent, understandable and coherent way......
Caroline. You should take the rude, condescending insults as a back handed compliment.
This has little to do with opinions or with doubts.
Caroline has now chosen to give her full support to the pro guilt group and clearly has some ulterior motive. Of course I don’t know what is really behind what she is doing, just as I don’t know what exactly was behind Bob Woffinden’s change of position.
Andrea was at least forthcoming about one factor which made her change her mind on the case. I remember her saying that she didn’t believe Mikes stories about meetings with an informant and felt somewhat embarrassed to be associated with Mike’s conspiracy theories and all that.
Caroline now seems more in agreement with retired copper types who favour the noble cause framing theory. She is clearly committed in an
absolute way to defending the police when they are accused of knowingly framing an innocent man.
I am not going to try to second guess why Caroline has joined some group and why she has agreed to do a pro guilt propaganda job on this forum, but I know that there must be some explanation and one which really has nothing to do with having doubts.
For one thing, she has never said that she was certain of Bamber’s innocence in the first place, so saying something about sometimes having doubts, just like Roch or one of the others, should have seemed like no big deal.
My opinion about what she is really doing is based upon the change in her style of debating. She has defined her position in such a way that any evidence of Bamber’s innocence is always blocked off automatically. Pro guilt people constantly rely upon explaining serious discrepancies as mistakes. The log entries are mistakes. What DC Clarke told Ann Eaton about the position of Sheila’s body was just a mistake. The timing of West’s log was just a mistake and so on and so on. If she were honest about her real position I would have no cause for complaint, but
she has gone in for the noble cause framing theory, in the strongest sense, in which no policeman can know that Bamber is innocent. That is very calculating.
An element of malice has crept into the way she talks about Bamber. She has acquired "guilter" style.
She has become just like Bridget or Steve_uk, relentless in grinding Jeremy Bamber down.
I don’t like what I am seeing and feel I have the right to say so.