
Grahame.... There are no words for that.
Let me explain it to you. If Jeremy had been planning this thing for a year, then why couldn't he make up a more convincing alibi or story?
The fact that he claimed that his father had phoned him that night would be more of an indication that he was innocent than if he were guilty. Why? Because obviously he wasn't believed. If he had a year thinking around this thing, then surely if he's done the crime he would have thought he would have invented a better "alibi" than this?
I conclude from that, that probably the phone call was true? It is only my own opinion. But unless he was an incredibly stupid man (one of scipios favourite expressions there) some people think he was, then this phone call seems to ring true if you are of an unbiased mind?
PS: Let me put this in whilst I have the chance. I can see quite clearly other things that militate against Bamber being innocent. But (I don't know why I have to try and justify myself like this?) at this very moment in time I am looking at the question of the phone call. Instead of Bamber trying to prove it in court it appears because of the guilty leanings from the judge in that he referred to it as "mysterious" thus planting boubts in the jury's minds, Bamber found himself in the position of having to prove that the phone call actually happened instead of the prosecution proving that it didn't happen. Which was round the wrong way as it it always up to the prosecution to prove that it didn't happen.
This they failed to do. Instead the judge insinuated that it didn't happen thereby planting the doubt in the jury's mind.
Get it now?