I cannot see how any jury would automatically buy into the suggestion that both of these timed logs relate to the same solitary phone call message passed to police by Jeremy Bamber. If both phone logs had been disclosed during the trial, I feel confident that a jury would reject such a claim, by comparing the contents of each of these two logs, and be satisfied that Ralph Bamber must have called the police himself, before Jeremy had done so himself. Particularly so, because during Jeremys call to police timed at 3.36am, Jeremy has spoken of a lengthy delay whilst he was put on hold, to which he complained about to the officer, and there is no mention of any corresponding delay in the 3.26am log message...
There is clearly too much doubt regarding the existence of these two different phone message log contents for any jury to come to the conclusion that both are a record of the same call made to police by the same person, that person being non other than Jeremy Bamber, himself...
The trial judge always takes it upon himself to warn the jury about being absolutely sure about facts and the law when it comes to retiring to reach a verdict, and had both logs been disclosed together I feel sure that there would have been a huge cloud of doubt linked to the origin of both of these calls, sufficient doubt I would say to persuade any jury that one of the calls had indeed been made by Ralph Bamber to the police...
There is no way that Ralph would phone Jeremy and say to him that "my daughter has got hold of one of my guns", he would have said something like, "Sheila has got the gun", or "She has got the gun", or whatever, and indeed in Jeremys own words when he himself spoke to police, that is precisely what Jeremy did tell police, he did not tell the police that "my daughter has got hold of one of my guns", he would not say such a thing simply because Sheila was not, is not Jeremys daughter...
