I thought Ewen Smith didn't join the CCRC till 2006? Didn't Bamber sack him a lot earlier? How come you say he was headhunted just as he was working on the Bamber case? You would have thought if Ewan thought Bamber innocent he would push for a referral.
Did Bamber sack Simon McKay or vice versa? None of his ex lawyers seem to get involved with him after they have worked for him, Simon doesn't seem to tweet about him now? I thought they allowed extra time for Bamber to put something together when Simon was acting for him?
Ewen Smith applied to join the CCRC in 2004, this was at a time when he went out of his way to speak to the police surgeon, Dr 'Craig and found out that Sheila was on the bed at 8.44am in the main bedroom and that by that stage, Sheila had only been shot once. Ewen also had a meeting with one of the SOCO's involved in the investigation with a Christian name 'David' who confirmed to him the existence of the second silencer, which David said had been kept by 'Taff' Jones on his desk in his office at Witham police station for a long time, and was being used as a paperweight by 'Taff'Jones, until PC Which came along and took possession of it, and after attaching it to the barrel of the gun, how PC Whiddon had arranged for the said silencer to be forwarded to the lab to be examined. Seems involvement with Jeremy's case ended when Giovani De Stefano stepped forward to take on the mantle as Jeremy's legal representative. I doubt think Jeremy appreciated a lot of the work Seen did on his behalf behind the scenes, and the fact that I was getting access to material to do with his case, and information which Jeremy felt he had no control over. In point of fact, this came to a head when Ewen managed to get hold of all the previously undisclosed crime scene photographs contained in what turned out to be 'THE SENIOR INVESTIGATING OFFICERS ALBUM' purporting to contain all 581 photographs.Prior to this arrangement which Ewen had with the CCRC over access to this unseen photographic evidence the defence had only been given access to the 223 photographs contained in what was named 'THE MASTER COPY ALBUM'...
It was whilst I was visiting Ewens Birmingham office in 2004, that I managed to 'borrow the photograph' showing Sheila's body on the bed, minus the rifle, with a solitary bullet wound in her throat. I thought I was doing Jeremy a massive favour by taking the said photograph and posting it into him at HMP Full Sutton, under the guise of 'Rule 37a' terms, but it ended up causing an error one amount of trouble for Jeremy, and myself. It also had the effect of hampering Jeremy's communication with Giovani, who had started to act as Jeremy's legal representative unbeknown to me by that stage. The photograph of Sheila on the bed minus the rifle and with only one bullet wound to her throat really does exist. She was laid on top of the bed towards the left hand side as viewed from the foot of the bed. There was no triangular bloodstained on the right hand shoulder side of her light blue nightdress, and by that stage there wasn't the bloodied fingermarks on the front lower side of the nightdress, the hem of which had been raised up to the top of her thighs. You could see that she wasn't wearing any underwear. The photographer who had taken the picture had been stood at the foot of the bed, and was obviously taken before the second shot had been inflicted which effectively ended her life on this earth. I believe that 'DC Oakey' (SOCO) took this photograph of Sheila on the bed, and another one showing the barrel of the rifle resting against the left hand side of Sheila's neck after she had sustained the second shot. Essex police have sought to extract DC Oakey from being present at the scene on that first morning, because of his association with the photograph or photographs he took of Sheila on the bed...
The photograph I borrowed, was posted to Jeremy at HMP Full Sutton. I spoke to Jeremy on the phone about the said photograph on the evening I acquired it. I told him I had already posted it to him along with an explanation of how I had come by it, and what it depicted. Quite naturally Jeremy was excited to hear about the discovery of the said photograph. A couple of days later I received a telephone call from Jeremy in the middle of the afternoon. I usually only got calls from him during the evening's. He was angry that I had posted the photograph into him under the 'Rule 37a' arrangement, and told me that prison security had intercepted it, and confiscated it. He was not allowed to see it's contents, and he was banned from using that privilege thereafter..
