I find it so difficult jane.
i have no knowledge of the area, what people know about jb or the family. I have never corresponded with jb etc etc. I also dont remember too much of it when it happened. I was too busy enjoying mtself at that age.
all i have to go on is what is on this forum and im not convinced. I am suspicious that the family were convinced he did it and they in turn convinced the police.
they would have sat talking about it hour after hour to decide how he did it and then put those suggestions to the police.
the power of suggestion seems to have played a big part in this case as they cannot be sure how anyone did it if it wasnt shiela.
I'm sure that it's confusing, Notsure.
Re the families part in the case. I believe they were HUGELY resentful of Jeremy - I'm not including Pam- and I suspect Jeremy didn't have much time for them, either. However,if we look at the age gaps, there were 10-15 years between the cousins so they were never going to be close. The Boutflour children, who went to state schools, were true farming stock, bought up with a work ethic which is still very much in evidence today. Conversely, the Bamber children seemed NOT to have had that ethic ingrained in them as neither achieved very much. I guess in their position, I'd have felt pissed off watching the heir to what I was working my socks off for swanning around OR doing as little as he could get away with. It would never have occurred to them that he may not have wanted to farm.............but none of this makes him innocent and it MAY be that at some point they AND some members of the police, over a drink, wished there was something concrete to prove their suspicions.
If you're going to talk about the power of suggestion, as a very good example, you only have to read what Jeremy told police during the time he stood outside with them.