I believe Julie Mugford's evidence to be entirely credible. Julie went into great detail about Jeremy and his activities including his other frauds perpetrated on the family. The theft from the camp site which was also blamed on other individuals being the clincher for me.
So you believe she was a credible witness John? Then why did she wait all that time before she came forward to the police and suddenly remember that JB had threatened to murder his family weeks before hand? All of a sudden being dumped by Jeremy she had a conscience about it. She was fine in covering up these wicked deeds before he dumped her. But after he gave her the brush off she had a sudden burst of conscience and like the good citizen she was she fled to the police with this "urgent" information. Even when JB was supposed to tell her in a telephone call about his dastardly plan she never even thought about phoning his parents to warn them. I wonder why?
I quite agree Grahame, she is a despicable person who previously colluded with Bamber to rob his own family but that is not what I am saying.
She turned Queens evidence to save her own skin, I have no doubt about that. Her testimony is so detailed that she would have been incapable of making it all up and keeping to it throughout all the interviews. She might not be the smartest of criminals but she is consistent, that is what makes the difference.
I also believe Jeremy wasn't too smart in trusting her in the first place but then again he thought that she was in it up to her neck and wouldn't squeal anyway. It is quite interesting that Jeremy had to phone her in the middle of the night before going to the farmhouse, wouldn't it be interesting to really know what he said to her that morning??
