So you're not sure?
Hi, Caroline
I have always kept that question in the forefront of my mind, until very recently when it became clear to me, that Jeremy could only have shot and killed his sister with the rifle from the first floor window, and staged her death scene with her body in possession of the rifle, post 8.10am. At this stage, there was an alteration in the body count downstairs and upstairs, which had originally been at a ratio of two versus three, but which had become transformed into one versus four. If I had been Jeremy Bambers counsel during his trial, armed with the information now in the public domain, that would be my argument, and in my closing speech to the jury. The police message log contents is admissible evidence. The specific timed events could not be any clearer. The contents of these key messages passed from the scene to the incident room were sufficient to satisfy staff back at Chelmsford Police station, and elsewhere, that not only had two bodies been found upon entry to the kitchen, but also that one of these two bodies was a male, the other body a female. One of these two deaths known to be a murder, the other a suicide. Facts, recorded at different sources, and believed to be true, certainly by 7.45am. None of the staff which passed or received these messages have ever questioned the accuracy or otherwise of these documented accounts. Two bodies, a male, a female, a murder, and a suicide, known about by 7.45am. This damning evidence is a key factor in favour of Jeremy Bambers innocence. It's accuracy checkable, by reference to another specifically timed event at 8.10am, 'after a thorough search a further three bodies found upstairs. Five dead in total'. Before cops had even set foot in the farmhouse, a rifle which was the only one of its kind found upstairs was seen by two police officers, Jeapes and Brown, resting against a first floor window. This sighting is important, because with this rifle being there at a first floor window at 7.15am, it was not possible for it to be upon Sheila's body at the same time, either upstairs on the bedroom floor, or downstairs in the kitchen. Now, when I first started to gather my thoughts regarding this information, I wanted to pinpoint the exact window at which the rifle in question had been resting? However, that precise window is not so important after all. What counts is the fact that the rifle was placed on view upstairs at a first floor window, prior to the firearm officers making their approach to enter the farmhouse. The sighting of the rifle at a first floor window, must be linked to the decision to send into the farmhouse a team of firearm officers to try to bring the seige situation to an end. Now, it doesn't even matter when the rifle was placed there at the first floor window, because whilst ever, and whenever it was in that position at a first floor window it could not have been resting on top of Sheila Caffells body in the main bedroom, or in the kitchen. The rifles location then at 7.15am, provides a huge indication that Jeremy Bamber (a) cannot have shot his sister with that rifle, (b) killed her, (c) staged her body on the main bedroom floor in possession of that rifle, so as to fool police into wrongly thinking that Sheila had taken her own life, so that (d) Bamber would inherit his parents estate(s). Bamber cannot be responsible for his sister's death, whatever the true circumstances of her death were/are. The position of the rifle at a first floor window on the red brick part of the farmhouse (7.15am) prior to the entry of firearm officers at 7.30am, exonerates Bamber from involvement not only in his sister's death, but more importantly, in the actual staging of her death scene, which was then photographed. As if only to make matters worse, cops then adopted the position which Sheila's body in possession of that rifle had been captured in by PC Bird (SOCO), as the exact position her body with the rifle had been found in upon entry. But, this cannot possibly be true, because the police message log contents with timed entries at 7.37am, and 8.10am, disprove that suggestion...
The point I am seeking to make, is that Jeremy Bamber could only have murdered his sister by shooting her dead with the only rifle upstairs, and staging her death scene using the rifle on her body, intending to fool the police into accepting that she had committed suicide was post 8.10am, not at any stage beforehand. If Bamber was the killer of his sister, he had to have done it, after 8.10am, that same morning. But we all know that that is impossible, because armed police entered the farmhouse at just after 7.30am, and that they found Sheila in the kitchen along with the body of her farther. We know there were only three bodies upstairs by 8.10am, five dead in total, the other two bodies already accounted for downstairs...
How did Sheila get shot in the kitchen, if the rifle which was used to shoot her was at a first floor window?
With the rifle at a first floor window (7.15am), and Sheila's body in the kitchen (7.37am), the area alongside her parents bed on the bedroom floor would have been empty at the specified times...
