GIVE US THE TRUTH - two handwritten statements (Bews/Myall), dated, 7/8/85...

[mike tesko]

It's a classic cover up, Essex police have deliberately witheld two hand written witness statements, one made by PS Bews, and the other made by PC Myall, both dated, 7th August 1985. These two police officers, were amongst the first police officers to arrive at the scene, and mingled with Jeremy Bamber after he also arrived there.  They were with Bamber when PC Myall first noticed the figure moving about inside an upstairs bedroom window, which Bews has since described as nothing but a trick of light. In contrast Jeremy continues to maintain that there was clearly a person alive and moving around inside the bedroom after he and the other policeman first arrived at the scene. In discussions I had with Jeremy regarding this particular matter, he has repeatedly told me the same details. The person in the bedroom was standing to the right of the window when PC Myall first saw it, and as they looked on, they all saw the person walk once across the full opening of the window, right to left, and out of sight, which was the trigger which sent Bews, Myall and Bamber, all running back to the patrol car...

[lookout]

 Well Jeremy certainly isn't going to agree to seeing someone moving about if he's purported to have killed them all. It's the last thing he'd have wanted to have seen,to my mind !
It surely would have been him who would have vehemently denied seeing anything ?

[mike tesko]

It has not yet been explained as to why PC Myall has not offerred an explanation for what he believed he had seen through the upstairs bedroom window, whether or not he agrees with PS Bews, "trick of light", explanation, or Jeremys, "a silhoetted figure", explanation?


This is interesting for a number of different reasons that I would like to take the opportunity to comment upon, for your consideration...

[mike tesko]

First thing to bear in mind, are the following sequence of events:-

(1) - Bews, Myall and Bamber are amongst the first to arrive at the scene, and it is these three who saw the activity through the upstairs bedroom window...

(2) - after they all saw what they all saw,  they returned to the patrol car (CA07) which was parked up in nearby Pages Lane, and joined PS Saxby...

(3) - Bews passed a situation report back to the control room. He musthave said what they had all just witnessed, so that he could justify requesting that the firearms unit should be sent to the scene immediately...

[mike tesko]

(4) - later that evening (7th August) police held a debriefing at Witham police station. Bews and Myall both attended. In 1986, as part of the Stoken Church Inquiry, Bews expressed concern about the way senior officers at the debrief ordered everyone to write up notes from the perspective that what police had been dealing with,6 was a case involving four murders and a suicide. Immediately after this, Bews and Myall both made hand written statements about thier involvement at the scene earlier in the day. Bews states that these statements were given to DS. 'Stan' Jones...

[mike tesko]

It should not be forgotten, that by the time of the debrief that it was not important that someone alive in the bedroom had been sighted by Myalls, Bamber and Bews, since this on that day fitted in well, with the "four murders and a suicide", scenario. It is therefore consistent with both Bews and Myall including reference to the sighting of a figure in the upstairs bedroom through the window, and that this is why those two hand written statements, dated, 7th August 1985, have thus far not yet been disclosed...

[mike tesko]

At the time they both made these hand written statements on the evening of 7th August 1985, the sighting of the figure through the upstairs bedroom window, and details of the message passed to the control room, from the patrol car (CA07) requesting that the firearms unit be deployed to the scene, would almost certainly have formed some part of these witness statements. Lets be honest, a police firearms unit does not ger requested to come to the scene where "a trick of light" reflecting on the glass of an upstairs bedroom window is being relied upon for making such a request...

And then there is a contribution from PC Myall in the form of an entry in a document, entitled, "MAJOR INCIDENT PROJECT", in which by late September 1985, police were trying to identify any sightings of unknown males, females, and motor vehicle, not yet identified by that stage, and at the very first entry,"UNIDENTIFIED MALE SEEN AT SCENE", by PC Mvall at 3.45am, on 7th August...

[mike tesko]

At the time they both made these hand written statements on the evening of 7th August 1985, the sighting of the figure through the upstairs bedroom window, and details of the message passed to the control room, from the patrol car (CA07) requesting that the firearms unit be deployed to the scene, would almost certainly have formed some part of these witness statements. Lets be honest, a police firearms unit does not ger requested to come to the scene where "a trick of light" reflecting on the glass of an upstairs bedroom window is being relied upon for making such a request...

And then there is a contribution from PC Myall in the form of an entry in a document, entitled, "MAJOR INCIDENT PROJECT", in which by late September 1985, police were trying to identify any sightings of unknown males, females, and motor vehicle, not yet identified by that stage, and at the very first entry,"UNIDENTIFIED MALE SEEN AT SCENE", by PC Mvall at 3.45am, on 7th August...

So, Bews puts the sighting at the bedroom window, as "a trick of light", Jeremys input was that it was not possible from his view point to say whether the person they were watching was male, or female, since, he describes the sighting as "a silhoetted figure". We then have PC Myall describing an "unidentified man", who he saw...