Hartley.. Do you think the some bamber supporters seem to be pointing at these two variations for a conspiracy theory?
Member/s of raid team make a f*** up. After some argument, everyone agrees it was a bad day at the office... move on.. . tow the line and we can sort this etc. We need to look after each other etc.
The training thing with informatives is at the moment, neither here nor there. But it becomes a bloody nightmare much further down the line.
The relatives, possibly for mixed reasons / motives, go hell for leather to force the police to investigate Jeremy.
Something... causes the police to buckle. This is the crucial missing link in the conspiracy chain. What could be of such magnitude as to cause the police to buckle?
Bamber gets framed in a sophisticated and ruthless manipulation of evidence that would make even the West Midlands Crime Squad look like amateurs.
Somebody in authority notices that there is a bad smell emanating from this investigation / trial and conviction.
They look in to it and become quite shocked at what they find. They decide that the best course of action is to back up their cousins from over the way... because the public would cause merry hell if certain things got out... and there may be reputations and pensions at stake etc.... including quite far up their cousin's hiearchy. Not good at all.
Other more senior people get to find out and decide that the situation is even worse now because the first lot of senior people have also tarnished themselves by also substituting the real truth for a plastic immitation one.
Here we reach a vortex. From here, every layer of seniority that comes in to contact with the case also becomes implicated in the wrongdoing by default.. i.e. they fall in to the trap that it's not in the public interest... as a consequence they also implicate themslves in the cover up.
The further up the line the smell goes ... the further the smell cements itself as being 'not in the public interest'.
In other words the conspiracy theory is that COLP had the opportunity to blow the case wide open and right a serious wrong, but at a great cost to their cousins. They didn't have the bottle to do it. By bottling, they effectively locked everyone else above them in the chain of command, in to a similar pattern of response. In this model... the corruption is institutionalized.
The variation on this conspiracy theory is that the further up the line it goes, the further the truth is manipulated to those in positions of seniority. In this model, those in positions of seniority are fooled rather than tarnishing themsleves by default.
