"They were the Bambers, not the Borgias" (shonapugs)
That's exactly what I'm saying, shona, they were not the Borgias:
They were the Bambers, old military families of the British Raj who plundered India and then became the civil servants who controlled it before one of them moved to control lands of the Blackwater villages.
They were the Speakmans, old land owning families who controlled such large stretches of the Blackwater estuary villages that you probably couldn't drive to Maldon without passing through their lands.
They were the Binneys, wealthy families of the land owning classes who helped each other.
They were the Eatons, perhaps the first family to have a luxury car in Messing, families who lived in the Blackwater villages' grandest houses.
They were Boutflours, old land owning and farming classes of the north, one of whom, Robert, married into the Blackwater Speakmans.
Jeremy Bamber was not one of them. He was the son of a man who got lucky and got a good job and of a vicar's daughter, and some of these land owning classes appear to have rejected him because he was adopted and wasn't one of them.
I think it was this mundane reality, that Jeremy Bamber was not one of them, not a conspiracy, that led to Jeremy's imprisonment.
