According to the contents of a police action report, a person called ‘Fraser, Bell’ was at one point suspected of being responsible. Fraser Bell worked on the Bamber Farm and lived in a caravan at – guess where? – the nearby Osea Road Caravan Park. One witness pointed the finger at Fraser Bell, but we do not know what information was imparted by this witness. We know that Bell’s statement said that when he approached the farm on the morning of the 7th, police turned him away. Police logs have no record of Fraser Bell’s attendance. A search for details among police logs completed at the scene by various police officers, does not confirm that Fraser Bell attended the scene on the morning of the murders and that he was turned away, as he has claimed, in his statement. Either Fraser Bell is lying or the police logs are inaccurate. Either way, the mild mystery has no answer and the defence weren’t told about it and given the chance to follow this line of inquiry to its natural conclusion.
Information contained in police logs also reveal that officers were sent along to neighbouring properties, to make enquiries concerning if they had heard or seen anything during the night. It’s believed one neighbour may have made the sighting referred to by the Press as ‘A hunched up dirty looking man’ who was seen walking away from the back of the house, about an hour after the police first arrived at the scene. The unidentified person was described in a major incident register log but we can go no further, because any witness statement that may have existed, containing this type of information, were never disclosed. We do not even know which witness claims they saw this man, since mountains of material is still withheld under PII (Public Interest Immunity) Rules.
There are indications in the evidence of a certain Steven Brian Smith of 23 Tollesbury Road, who heard ‘gunshot sounds’ at a time when it was conceded Jeremy Bamber was not at the Farm. Police haven’t disclosed this information either.
