Sheila not fighting back. Why ?

[lookout]

I believe I've read in one of the books(Roger Wilkes?) that Sheila kept a diary,and since this thread concerns Sheila you'll forgive me for dredging up an old thread: there's a reference to it here:http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,3760.0.html

Did we ever get to the bottom of the letters written on a piece of paper and was this in Sheila's hand or Jeremy's?

Neither,Steve. If they're the ones I'm thinking about,I rather fear they were written by June.

[Steve_uk]

Neither,Steve. If they're the ones I'm thinking about,I rather fear they were written by June.

June wrote snippets of religious excerpts,which she would leave lying around the house. I suppose before the age of biros her mother would be sewing on a Sunday as my mother used to in similar fashion,writing in stitching as it was in that bygone era.

[lookout]

June wrote snippets of religious excerpts,which she would leave lying around the house. I suppose before the age of biros her mother would be sewing on a Sunday as my mother used to in similar fashion,writing in stitching as it was in that bygone era.

Sadly,June was unwell prior to the tragedy as Neville had become concerned about her. I believe that she too had visited a psychiatric out-patient department after Sheila had been discharged the same year. She had been treated for a return of depression,so not much sewing/needlework going on there.

[Steve_uk]

Sheila not fighting back: she was ill,she was passive,she was her own worst enemy,she could not hold down a job and had little confidence and self-esteem. All this must be borne in mind when we reflect on the final stages of this tragedy.

[Mr. Gee]

Sheila not fighting back: she was ill,she was passive,she was her own worst enemy,she could not hold down a job and had little confidence and self-esteem. All this must be borne in mind when we reflect on the final stages of this tragedy.

In fact one could be forgiven to suggest that she was at the end of her tether?

[lookout]

Steve,there were two sick women inside that farmhouse and one mortified husband and father in the " middle " who was more concerned about the health of his wife this time than Sheila's tantrums,to which Sheila must have really felt out on a limb having been used to her father's support over the years,who now began siding with his wife.

[Jane]

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"I didn't mean to be horrible to Jeremy.."
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"I didn't mean to be horrible to Jeremy"-these words written by Sheila in her journal in her last hours on earth and which sealed her fate will be etched indelibly on any serious studier of the White House Murder crimes. They suggest that the siblings had had a row on that Tuesday night,possibly as an embittered Jeremy had reminded her where the money for the maintenance of her London Maida Vale was coming from and how hard it was earned by Jeremy tilling the soil,for which he seemed to receive little appreciation from the company gathered around him. Nevill would castigate his heir for not putting in sufficient hours or getting his hands dirty,herein a covert reference to the rumours of a sexual deviance which Nevill endured on the occasions he supped at the Red Lion public house. June had long since refrained from tackling her son on any public or private matter,their uneasy modus vivendi resulting in the merest of pleasantries being exchanged in any random encounter at the Farm.

Yet looking back from the grim realities of a grey prison cell it is Sheila whom Jeremy has talked about most in terms which could most be construed as any shred of regret or remorse. Sheila was of an age where she was likely to be believed,and though in reality immature and harmless her remarks cut an already emotionally-damaged Jeremy. If only he had understood his sister or attempted to understand her illness just that little bit more,he would have been able to realize why June acted as she did in providing a cushion of support,which in no way detracted from June's love for him,nor could Sheila be culpable for lashing out at times at the people most dear to her,this being inherent in the nature of her illness.In the over-competitive environment in which Nevill placed Jeremy at Gresham's whilst only eight years old his father was planning ahead and doing what he felt was in the long-term interests of his son. Yet this only caused bitterness and alienation from both parents as the years progressed and engendered a feeling of hopelessness as Jeremy was ever outwitted by his smarter peers. Only now has Jeremy begun to realize what he had and what he has thrown away,which must make the passage of every day even more unbearable as he reflects on the heartfelt remorse Sheila expressed as a new year of confinement starts.

Steve, through all of the above, you have Jeremy looking at the situation with the benefit of adult eyes. I have yet to meet a disgruntled ADULT, who can view their relationship with an offending parent/ sibling, through anything other than the eyes of the child they once were.

[lookout]

I believe I've read in one of the books(Roger Wilkes?) that Sheila kept a diary,and since this thread concerns Sheila you'll forgive me for dredging up an old thread: there's a reference to it here:http://jeremybamberforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,3760.0.html

Did we ever get to the bottom of the letters written on a piece of paper and was this in Sheila's hand or Jeremy's?

The diaries were handed back to the relatives as is written in the notes of AE to COLP.

[Adam]

For Jan.