Police shot unarmed occupants in the kitchen upon entry, five 'knocks' were heard via the telephone eavesdrop which corresponded with the five shots that were discharged from a police weapon (These shootings were subject of an 'OFFICERS REPORT' about these shootings which took place in the kitchen, and describe the true circumstances for how Sheila Caffell was shot in the neck and was believed dead, and Ralph Bamber was finished off with two double taps to two regions of his bowed head). The shooting of these two unarmed victims could not easily be covered up, since one of the victims was the Chairman of Witham Magistrates court, and the other was his mentally ill daughter. A decision was taken in high office, that the matter best be dealt with as four murders and a suicide, in the Coroners Court, on the basis that the person who was responsible for killing the other four victims (Sheila Caffell) had herself died as a result of taking her own life afterwards). Of course, the shooting incident in the kitchen was a somewhat convoluted affair, since technically when the police shot Sheila there, she did not die, as was thought at the time, but regained consciousness and managed to get herself upstairs to the main bedroom before collapsing onto the bed, where police again thought she had died from the effects of the first shot. This was confirmed by police surgeon, Dr Craig who at 8.44am pronounced Sheila Caffell as dead, her body being on the far side of the bed, with what appeared to be a solitary bullet wound to her neck. These features were confirmed in duplicate by the case manager, PI 'Bob' Miller, who reaffirmed that Sheila's body had been on the far side of the bed, and had the time Dr Craig pronounced her as being dead (8.44am) had what appeared to be a solitary bullet wound to her neck. We know that DS Jones, and DC Clark both attended the scene and both saw Sheila's body on top of the bed with a solitary shot in her neck, before leaving the scene to go to Jeremys cottage at 9 Head Street, Goldhanger, to take a witness statement from Jeremy. Also present at Jeremys cottage was Ann Eaton, and the other relatives. Either DS Jones, or DC Clark, or both, told the relatives that Sheila's body was on the bed and that she had been shot once...
Essex police decided to treat the matter as four murders and a suicide, and for the matter to be proceeded with through the Coroners Court system, which would enable them to keep a tight lid on information about the firearm operation, in particular, the siege situation which got turned on its head after 8.10am, when Sheila's body disappeared from the vicinity of the kitchen, and sparked a brief continuation of the firearms operation inside the farmhouse, which had already been terminated with the discovery of three further bodies upstairs at that time. Once the operation went wrong, PI Montgomery took over Commander-ship of the operation from PS Adams, until about 8.30am, by which time the fresh siege situation was finally ended with the fresh discovery of Sheila upstairs, whereas she had previously been found downstairs...
Once Essex police made the decision to proceed with the case as four murders and a suicide, that would be proceeded with through the Coroners court, they could not go back and change things without exposing themselves to acts of serious misconduct, perjury, Conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, unlawful killing of two unarmed victims, one of who was the already badly wounded Chairman of Witham Magistrates Bench, and the other victim, his mentally ill daughter...
When the relatives asserted pressure to make the police arrest Jeremy, there was no turning back. The police could not undo those acts, and reverse those decisions which had already been taken and acted upon. They had to pretend from that moment onward that they did not know exactly how Ralph Bamber and died in the kitchen, and how Sheila's body ended upstairs in the main bedroom shot twice, with use of two separate weapons, with only one of the guns found in that bedroom. All those involved knew that Jeremy Bamber could not have and did not kill Ralph Bamber, or Sheila Caffell, but for them to admit this, they would have to themselves admit that they killed two of the five victims, as described...
