Is this the same secret land deal which was mentioned in COLP's Dickinson Report and in the 2002 Appeal Judgement?
No, I don't think it can be as Mike told me the following:
"Jeremy told me about the argument which Ralph and Peter Eaton had just before the time of the shootings, over a loan connected with the farm that Ann and Peter Eaton lived on. This loan was monies which Ralph Bamber paid on behalf of the Eatons, to a university. Eaton and Ralph Bamber came to blows and Ralph ended up with a black eye..."
Jeremy knew about this episode, so it can't be the same as this latest secret land deal that's come to light.
Mike,
You've posted a statement elsewhere regarding Nevill loaning PE the money to purchase his brother's third share in farm land that their mother had bequeathed to them and one other brother.
I've also seen a reference to Nevill paying money to a university, I believe on PE's behalf.
1. Are you suggesting that this was just one land deal?
2. Were there two farms involved?
3. Did the land deal date to 1961 or some time after?
4. Was it a college and not a university that Nevill paid the money to?
5. Where was this university/ college, could it have been in Gloucestershire - where Sheila was born?
I'm asking because I have a sort of half formed theory that there were two farms that Nevill funded, but I'm probably completely wrong.