My timings of the calls are entirely accurate, the witness statement version of events have got the wrong times for one reason or another. You only have to look at the alteration in Julie Mugfords accounts relating to the time of Jeremy's call to her that morning, 3.30am, 3.15am, or earlier. Additionally, one of her house mates placed the time of that early morning call at around 2.00am ...
Ralph definitely phoned Jeremy, Jeremy tried to ring back but kept getting the engaged tone, Ralph phoned the police (3.26am), Jeremy tried to phone Witham police station but got no response (3.29am), then Jeremy phoned Julie Mugford (3.30am), then Jeremy phoned Chelmsford police station (3.36am). Witham police station was manned all night, Bews, Myall and Saxby were on duty there on that first morning of the investigation, but when Jeremy phoned they had gone out on another Job, and did not return to Witham until around 3.34am, at which point they were contacted by Chelmsford police station, and they went straight back out again at 3.36am. Another police vehicle was deployed to the scene (CA05) before Jeremy contacted Chelmsford police station. These are the facts...
In any event, people can play around with the timing of this call, and that call, as much as they like, it still won't alter the now known fact that Sheila was present downstairs in the kitchen since before 7.35am when DCI Terry Gibbons authorised a message to be passed back to the incident room regarding two bodies found in kitchen upon entry, and he requested that a police surgeon, a Coroner's officer, and the divisional DCI be notified of the two bodies police were dealing with by that stage. The corresponding police message log entries at 7.37am, 7.38am, 7.42am, and 8.10am, tell it as it was inside the farmhouse, two bodies downstairs, three bodies up. Not just a case of two bodies downstairs in the kitchen, but to be more specific, 'the body of one dead male, and the body of one dead female'. Furthermore, by 7.45am, staff in the incident room were in possession of information to the effect that the death of the male, and the reported death of the female body in the ktchen, was a murder, and 'a suicide'. They relayed this information to 'DS Davidson' at his home address at precisely 7.45am. So, there it is, police finding two bodies upon entry to the kitchen, the body of one dead male (we have to presumed this being a reference to the body of Ralph Bamber, murdered,), and 'the body of one dead female ( this body could not have been a reference to June Bamber because her death could in no way be described as being a suicide). The first body which police came upon when entering the kitchen was the body of Ralph Bamber, he had been murdered. The second body police reported as being present in the kitchen upon entry, was Sheila (hers was the only purported death by that stage which with there being only one shot to the neck at that stage, could have been reported as a suicide). The fact that she was reported dead at this time, proved incorrect. The pathologist Venezis stated that the shot across the neck (first shot) was not immediately fatal. This is consistent with Sheila still being alive in the kitchen with only a solitary shot to the neck. I have outlined how she got shot in the kitchen during a struggle with PS Woodcock over possession of his gun as he came around the opening edge of the internal door. I have described how police said Sheila had appeared to deliberately pull the muzzle of Woodcocks weapon into her own neck region, and I have laid out the now known facts regarding how that weapon 'discharged' a shot which penetrated Sheila's neck, thought to have killed her! I have drawn attention to the whole scale alteration in PS Woodcocks witness statement which started off being a 15 page statement, but which due to the editing out of the facts surrounding Woodcocks entry into the kitchen and the shooting of Sheila, was dramatically reduced to 10 pages. At that part of the revised witness statement where Woodcock seeks to describe his entry into the kitchen, a totally different typewriter has been used to create an edited version of the truth. There exists, also, an officers report concerning the shooting incident in the kitchen - this officers report was made out by PS Woodcock because he shot Sheila with his rifle once in the kitchen. When Woodcock returned his weapon and ammunition to the force Armoury that morning, he was one bullet short in the total he had been issued with. Two bodies then, found in kitchen upon entry, Ralph and Sheila. The former known to be a murder, the latter reported as a suicide. This was all known about and true prior to 7.45am, that morning!!!
Only three bodies upstairs by 8.10am. No prizes for guessing whose bodies these were of?
June Bamber, Daniel and Nicholas Caffell...
The pathologist Knight testified saying that he believed that Sheila could have moved around for quite some time after the first shot. At one stage, he agreed that she could have moved around for as long as half an hour before the second shot was inflicted. Not to be overlooked, was that neither Venezis of Knight knew anything at all about Sheila being downstairs in the kitchen when police eventually entered, and she was reported to be dead, by way of suicide. Of course, if the contents of these key police message logs had not been deliberately withheld by the police and the so called prosecuting authorities, more weight might have been attached to Knights testimony regarding Sheila's ability to still be mobile after receiving the first shot to the neck whilst in the kitchen. However, it must be said, because it is right and proper to do so, that upon being shot in the neck during the aforementioned shooting incident in the kitchen, that Sheila did not run off, or walk about immediately, but instead collapsed onto the kitchen floor. Hence why police reported her presence there in the kitchen at that stage. Police mistakenly believed they had shot and killed her at a time when they had almost all of the other rooms downstairs and upstairs to search and clear. It seems so obvious to me that upon being shot that Sheila collapsed in the kitchen into unconsciousness and shock, or whatever, only to regain her senses, get up onto her feet and hide or rest in the spiral staircase, before making her way into the main bedroom where she collapsed again into unconsciousness. I am not saying that all of this happened in minutes or seconds because it didn't. There was a delay between 8.10am, and 8.44am, during which Sheila made a temporary recovery in the kitchen, travelled up the spiral stair located between kitchen and first floor landing, and the short journey into the main bedroom. I believe this activity on Sheila's part which explains how her body moved from its original location in the kitchen to the main bedroom upstairs fits in with Knights account, regarding the potential for Sheila to have been able to move around once the first shot was inflicted. The only difference between what Knight says was possible, and what I am saying did happen, is that Sheila was not moving around continually for a period of up to half an hour, she was motionless after being shot in the kitchen, regained her senses and recovered sufficiently enough to make her way onto the spiral stair, 'rested there, or hid, or both', maybe she could have sank into a semi unconsciousness again there on that stair, before recovering and making the last effort to get into the main bedroom where she knew she might get access to the rifle she had placed at the first floor window. Now, it doesn't concern me whether she placed the rifle at the box room window, or the main bedroom window, since her attempt to potentially take possession of the rifle, entailed her to have to reach it there via the main bedroom. But, for one reason or another she only made it as far as the bed. The police surgeon Craig did not physically examine Sheila at 8.44am, when he pronounced her dead, he reached that conclusion by a cursory glance at her body. That was another mistake in the investigation, because she wasn't completely dead by that stage, but she may have been very close to death. At this stage she had what appeared to be an entry wound to her throat. What this suggests is that if the pathologist Venezis is right about the impact of the two shots eventually found to her neck, the second one of which would have proved to be instantaneously fatal, is that by 8.44am, that fatal second shot had not yet by that stage been fired!!!
