Jeremy Bamber posts bizarre apology for 'failing to clear his name'

[Jane]

The article is littered with inaccuracies but this apology may be a halfway house to finally admitting his culpability.

Steve, please don't hold your breath waiting for it to go any further.

[lookout]

That's what I took her post as meaning too. But the worst things I have read about June and the pain she caused her children through their heavily religious upbringing wasn't in books - it was on here.   

I can agree with that to an extent, he is trying to act like he is innocent, and that is difficult because he isn't - so doesn't know how he should react- or how he would really feel if he was innocent of a crime and in prison for so long for a crime they didn't commit - so he is projecting what he thinks he would and should feel like.

He is also in PR mode - because of the high profile natures of the two books this year and the numerous negative newpapers articles about him - which is why he is trying to win public support with his Baking and his Apology - he understands a case like this needs public support.

You obviously don't either remember,choose not to remember,or have completely ignored CC's remark about June ?

[guest154]

You obviously don't either remember,choose not to remember,or have completely ignored CC's remark about June ?

I do remember them. I didn't say nothing negative has been said about June in books, I said the worst I have seen about June has been posted on here - and it has.

[lookout]

I do remember them. I didn't say nothing negative has been said about June in books, I said the worst I have seen about June has been posted on here - and it has.

Maybe the reason for that is that too many of you are blinkered and because I've had experience of " sweet,elderly ladies " being like ogres, has got something to do with it that I grasped the reason for Sheila's behaviour. Which is something that Jeremy hasn't obviously latched on to. Sheila didn't just become unwell,she was driven to it by her mother. 
June didn't like anyone,including CC and JM,or any of Sheila's friends. Life was more than uncomfortable all round at WHF.

[guest154]

Maybe the reason for that is that too many of you are blinkered and because I've had experience of " sweet,elderly ladies " being like ogres, has got something to do with it that I grasped the reason for Sheila's behaviour. Which is something that Jeremy hasn't obviously latched on to. Sheila didn't just become unwell,she was driven to it by her mother. 
June didn't like anyone,including CC and JM,or any of Sheila's friends. Life was more than uncomfortable all round at WHF.

No comment.

[Jan]

my comment is that Colins opinion was colins  opinion. Others may not have seen June in the way he did . I just could not understand why he would chose to air that "opinion" when it had nothing really to do with the case if Sheila was not responsible. He did not as far as I remember imply Junes behaviour was responsible for Jeremys actions.

[scipio_usmc]

No - lookout means things that have been written in books - especially about June . They may have been exaggerated for all we know.

He was the source of many of the claims of his mother being a religious nut, Sheila being certifiable and  and the family being so dysfunctional. 

[susan]

I agree Jan, think Colin was still very raw and struggling with anger and pain when he wrote the book, he used it to help his healing and accepting process. It was a very personal account and possibly not always totally accurate.  No one can deny it was a horrendous loss and trauma for Colin, more than for anyone else really because he lost his precious boys and to lose a child is the one thing you never recover from imo.

Maggie just read your comments about Colin and his anger and pain and I agree with you it is strange none of his anger and pain was directed at Jeremy he did not speak very badly about Jeremy in the book I wonder why. Maggie I am not disagreeing with your post have always wondered why he did not direct anger towards Jeremy he said they were like brothers.

[lookout]

Jeremy by all accounts wasn't treated as appallingly as Sheila was. It was just unfortunate that June never forgave the " incident " in the field so continued her lectures on morals whenever she got the chance. The Bible did overtime which is evident by the dog-eared pages in it. Sheila was never allowed to forget that she was the " devils " child,poor woman.

[maggie]

Maggie just read your comments about Colin and his anger and pain and I agree with you it is strange none of his anger and pain was directed at Jeremy he did not speak very badly about Jeremy in the book I wonder why. Maggie I am not disagreeing with your post have always wondered why he did not direct anger towards Jeremy he said they were like brothers.

I know susie, it's very strange really.  Sheila obviously vented her anger and hurt about June to Colin but it's hard to know where anger began and psychosis ended as often a PS can have single out a family member who is the object of their misdirected anger and often that can be the mother.  On the other hand it's accepted to a point at least that June failed to understand Sheila and probably vice versa which caused some hostility at times

[scipio_usmc]

Jeremy by all accounts wasn't treated as appallingly as Sheila was. It was just unfortunate that June never forgave the " incident " in the field so continued her lectures on morals whenever she got the chance. The Bible did overtime which is evident by the dog-eared pages in it. Sheila was never allowed to forget that she was the " devils " child,poor woman.

There is no evidence that June kept calling her the devil.  She is HARDLY one of the only adults pestered by her mother about partying with drugs, sex etc.   Mothers pester kids plenty as adults for not doing things the way the mother wants and expects them to act from how they were raised.  I didn't raise you to...

Sheila was not in some unique situation.

[lookout]

There is no evidence that June kept calling her the devil.  She is HARDLY one of the only adults pestered by her mother about partying with drugs, sex etc.   Mothers pester kids plenty as adults for not doing things the way the mother wants and expects them to act from how they were raised.  I didn't raise you to...

Sheila was not in some unique situation.

Sheila was a nervous wreck around her mother,unable to let go of her angst because it would further frighten the twins,so she waited until the fateful night when the boys were asleep in bed and finally let rip.

[Adam]

Bamber is now just having fun.

He knows he's not getting out but likes the attention and keeping up a high profile for his supporters.

He knows he's guilty and he knows everyone else knows.

Articles about baked cakes, being a mummies boy and being 'mates' with Neville will be common in the future.

There will be the occasional serious article, one of the last ones being the old chestnut about missing documents.

[guest154]

Sheila was a nervous wreck around her mother,unable to let go of her angst because it would further frighten the twins,so she waited until the fateful night when the boys were asleep in bed and finally let rip.

Where have you read that June kept calling her the devil?

[Jane]

There is no evidence that June kept calling her the devil.  She is HARDLY one of the only adults pestered by her mother about partying with drugs, sex etc.   Mothers pester kids plenty as adults for not doing things the way the mother wants and expects them to act from how they were raised.  I didn't raise you to...

Sheila was not in some unique situation.

It's not something you can give a "one size fits all" answer to. Unless you're adopted you can't begin to know how it might feel. For a start, many adopted children have no idea of who may be their biological parents. Add to that a deeply religious background with a disapproving God at its' centre. Add to that the sense of duty, obedience, responsibility and gratitude ingrained in some adopted children and you may start to form a picture of just how disturbing it is for an adopted child to be told that its' father is the devil.