I believe you. I mean no criticism of you, but it is not fortunate for Bamber that you lack the resources to get this stuff online. I speak as a provisional pro-guilt person in this particular case, but I have seen what many pairs of eyes can achieve in these cases over time.
May I ask by what means all this stuff ended up with you? Did a firm of solicitors release it to you on Bamber's instructions? I also read somewhere that Bamber has access to the case file in prison. Is that true?
I came into possession of these papers, after the 2002 appeal hearing, which coincided with me re-establishing contact with Jeremy, after a break of several years (a decade of time, I think). I started to recommunicate with him again, as I say in 2002. I believe my records will show that I was actually back in touch with Jeremy before his 2002 appeal, but I did not take possession of all the material until after it had concluded. At that stage, with the appeal done and dusted, his solicitor, arranged for all the case file to be given to a trusted and very good friend of his. I believe this person already had a lot of Jeremy's files since before the actual appeal had taken place, but this hoarde was added to, once the appeal finished. Anyway, I had started to visit, write, and speak to Jeremy, again, and I became aware that he wanted me to give an opinion of the outcome of the appeal, which I understood to be 'DNA', related, linked to an examination of 'the' silencer. I hadn't seen any of this evidence other than what I had read in the newspapers, and seen in TV news reports, up until that point. So, Jeremy arranged for me to meet his 'good friend' on a shared visit at HMP Full Sutton, and shortly after this, although I continued to visit Jeremy, write to him, and speak to him on the telephone at least one evening per week, I was invited to the home of his 'good friend' for an informal chat, where I was introduced to the 'good friends' married partner, who was 'a BT engineer. This routine was repeated several times, over a period of time, until the keeper of all Jeremy's files contacted Jeremy and informed him that they were either moving house, or having the adjoining garage to their home renovated, and they couldn't keep his files any longer in storage. At that time, Jeremy was still in contact with Ewen Smith (solicitor) and although working behind the scenes (unpaid) he had been approached according to Jeremy to see if he would take possession of Jeremy's files, but couldn't. It was during a visit I had with Jeremy after this, that he spoke to me about the possibility of me having the files. This arose, because whilst serving a prison sentence at the same time as Jeremy has been serving his (1989 / 1990), I had entered into an agreement with him to provide support and advice to him about his case, on the basis that we had a contract between us involving book and film rights. This was at a time when very few people liked him, and he did not have legal aid to be properly represented. I was a serving prisoner myself at the time, but promised to devote as much of my time and resources into helping and supporting him for as long as I could, providing we had a contract. Well, back in 1989, we had such a contract. And, for the record, Jeremy even stipulated as one of the terms of our contract that I was only entitled to a maximum total of six hundred and fifty million dollars, in book and film rights. Anyway, that is just background information, leading up to how I came to be in possession of all the files. On that particular visit to see Jeremy in 2002, he asked me if I wanted the opportunity to keep all his files. He explained why, telling me that they could no longer be kept where they were at the moment because the current keeper was either moving house, or renovating a garage and therefore no longer had the space to keep all his material. He told me that his solicitor (Ewen Smith) had no room to store it all, and that the prison service would not let him (at that time) have possession in his cell because there was too much of the stuff, and besides, under health and safety, it would have been a fire risk. So he asked me if I wanted them, adding that if I didn't, he could not think of anybody else to give them to. Well, at that time I didn't have any room myself at home either, so on that first occasion, I told Jeremy that I was sorry, but I couldn't because I had no room, either. However within a couple of weeks, he persuaded me to have the lot, on the basis that all of it was material for 'our' book, and film.
