Let's see who is right the posters who have spent years debating this subject or the guy who has been here 2 weeks and has only studied the case for 2 months.
1) The Jeremy-apologists assert that DB stated Sheila went to shooting parties and shot at them.
2) The newcomer asserts that DB stated she didn't go to shooting parties and after being pressed repeatedly by the defense said maybe she did go but he didn't recall her going, and certainly didn't recall her firing a gun.
Who correctly characterized said testimony?
Rivlin : Did you ever take her on a shooting holiday?
DB: Jeremy Bamber with his father came on a shooting holiday, but I cannot honestly recollect Sheila coming on one.
Rivlin : Do you remember an occasion when you went to Scotland on a shooting holiday with Sheila?”
DB : I do not recollect a shooting holiday with Sheila, but I do recollect a shooting holiday with Nevill Bamber and his son Jeremy, and also my now wife Karen Boutflour.
Rivlin: Are you saying you have never been to Scotland with Sheila and/or others on a shooting holiday?
DB : I cannot recollect Sheila being on the shooting holiday you are referring to.
Rivlin: Did you not go on a shooting holiday with Sheila and Jeremy Bamber being present?
DB: My mind is somewhat blurred at this time. There may have been and occasion when Nevill Bamber and Jeremy . . . . but this must have been many years before that.
Rivlin: It may have been some years before. I cannot give you a date, do you understand but doing the best I can, may I suggest to you 1978/79 period, when you went on a shooting holiday with Sheila?
Mr Justice Drake: Where abouts are you putting?
Mr Rivlin: In Scoland
Mr Justice Drake: Just the two of them, it is suggested?
DB: I think I can possibly explain this a little further. It is such a long time ago I am having a lot of trouble recollecting this but, having suddenly put me on the spot, I think I can remember occasions when I have taken members of the family up to Scotland, and I belonged to a shooting party of about eight members, which we invited a guest on one or the second occasion, and we would shoot on August 12th – The Glorious Twelfth – and sometimes in September shooting on three days on each occasion.
Rivlin: You understand I am not concerned to ask you about just any old holiday that you may have been on, however pleasant, but to ask you about a time when you took Sheila up with you, and there was such an occasion, was there not Mr Boutlfour?
DB: I have a feeling, now you have brought back the grey matter a little, Sheila may have come up with me on one occasion.
Rivlin: Can you tell the court, did she do any shooting?”
DB: It’s such a long time ago, I cannot recollect, but she certainly did not carry a gun. She may have fired a gun off in the party perhaps.
Rivlin: She may have, but you cannot recollect?
DB: I can recollect somebody firing a 12 bore off and putting it up to their shoulder, but I do not recollect whether it was Sheila or another lady.
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So he said he doesn't recall taking Sheila at all, doesn't recall her firing a gun and simply recalls a woman who fired a .410 but is not sure who that woman was.
Thi sis a far cry from the claim of the author of this thread and the various resident jeremy apologists who insist that DB stated she definitely went to a shoot.
My characterization was correct all along. That begs the question was this misrepresented by Jeremy-apologists intentionally or was it simply ignorance and the matter of being wrong as opposed to lying?
In the meantime a 410 is not a semi auto and firing a .410 once doesn't even mean someone would necessarily be able to load a 410 let alone to load a semi-auto which doesn't function in the same manner.
Nor doe sit establish SHeila would be likely to go for a gun and load it as opposed to going for her own staple which is also the staple of women across the globe- pots and pans.
If she did go for a gun and try to load it before Nevill could stop her from inserting the magazine chances are she still would not have known how to chamber a round let alone be aware that she needed to do so. Thus the same thing that happened to Lynette Fromme likely would have happened to her- pulling the tirgger and nothing happening because she had not chambered a round.
Jeremy aplogists also ignore time and again she would not have the knowledge or desire to load 11 rounds instead of just loading 10. 11 were fired inthe bedroom at the parents before Nevill escaped.
Worse yet, why would Sheila load 20 rounds from the bullets in the kitchen and in the middle of loading the magazine suddenly stop half way though there were 30 bullets left, go to the closet and load 5 more bullets from the closet? Supporters don't ever even attempt to answer this question because there is no rational explanation. It is ignored completely because it is so damaging.
Jeremy apologists ignore evidence and intentionally twist evidence to support what they decided they want to believe instead of objectively following evidence where it leads.
Jeremy himself admitted he is the one who left these bullets on the counter near the phone. He admits he dumped them out. He asserts that the box had been full or only missing a couple of rounds when he dumped it out.
There are only 2 possibilities- either he lied and staged these 30 bullets making up that there had actually been 48-50 originally to falsely suggest the killer used these bullets or the killer used 18-20 bullets then went to the closet to get another 5-7 instead of continuing to use these. Why would the killer do that? It doesn't matter who the killer is such would not make any sense. The claim is not credible and an objective person using the reasonable person standard would view this as evidence that Jeremy staged th escene before phoning police.