Who phoned International drug dealer from whf during tragedy?

[mike tesko]

Essex police discovered that there had been an International phone call made from the scene,  on two occasions prior to the tragedy. One call had been made from farmhouse at about midnight, and the other at just before 3am. The calls were traced to an hotel room in Belguim where a well known drug baron was staying. Essex police suspected at one stage that he was involved in 'the hitman' plot to kill the family because it was rumourd that Sheila Caffell had run up a huge (drugs) bill estimated to be in the region of £50,000, and involved one of Sheila's boyfriends 'Freddie Emani' supplying her over a year long period prior to her last breakdown and admission into hospital. At one stage, Essex police were trying to identify 'the scruffy looking hunched man' who police saw walking away from the farmhouse about an hour or so, after police (3.35am?) had first arrived at the scene. Emani was arrested in London and taken to Essex to be interviewed where he was spoken too about his relationship with Sheila and the possibility that he could have been 'that' scruffy looking man at the scene (this took place during the first investigation, SC/688/85, when police were treating the case as 'four murders and a suicide'...

Much later, when the case changed direction and it became, SC/786/85, 'five murders', Essex police focussed on 'a hitman' theory, involving Jeremy Bamber and Mathew MacDonald...

This part of the investigation petered out when MacDonalds alibi checked out, and from that point forward Essex police made Jeremy himself the main suspect!

[mike tesko]

Essex police discovered that there had been an International phone call made from the scene,  on two occasions prior to the tragedy. One call had been made from farmhouse at about midnight, and the other at just before 3am. The calls were traced to an hotel room in Belguim where a well known drug baron was staying. Essex police suspected at one stage that he was involved in 'the hitman' plot to kill the family because it was rumourd that Sheila Caffell had run up a huge (drugs) bill estimated to be in the region of £50,000, and involved one of Sheila's boyfriends 'Freddie Emani' supplying her over a year long period prior to her last breakdown and admission into hospital. At one stage, Essex police were trying to identify 'the scruffy looking hunched man' who police saw walking away from the farmhouse about an hour or so, after police (3.35am?) had first arrived at the scene. Emani was arrested in London and taken to Essex to be interviewed where he was spoken too about his relationship with Sheila and the possibility that he could have been 'that' scruffy looking man at the scene (this took place during the first investigation, SC/688/85, when police were treating the case as 'four murders and a suicide'...

Much later, when the case changed direction and it became, SC/786/85, 'five murders', Essex police focussed on 'a hitman' theory, involving Jeremy Bamber and Mathew MacDonald...

This part of the investigation petered out when MacDonalds alibi checked out, and from that point forward Essex police made Jeremy himself the main suspect!

Order of Suspicion

Police initially suspected that the tragedy had occurred because of a drug debt owed by Sheila Caffell which had mounted up prior to her last breakdown and admission to hospital, and that her parents (Neville and June) refused to pay off the debt for whatever reason! Jeremy had walked in on his parents and Sheila having a one sided argument at supper time on the eve' of the tragedy, but he did not know the true state of play by that stage...

£50,000 drug debt?
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(1) - Drug Baron (SC/688/85)
(2) - Freddie Emani (SC/688/85)

Hitman theory?
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(3) - Mathew MacDonald (SC/786/85)
(4) - Jeremy Bamber (SC/786/85)

[mike tesko]

During my first contact with Jeremy whilst we were both incarcerated at HMP Full Sutton, Stamford Bridge, York between 1989 and 1990, it was Jeremy himself who told me that he had known about 'Sheila's drug debts', and that these had risen to somewhere in the region of £50,000. He told me that Sheila had an Iranian boyfriend, named 'Freddie Emani' (apparently, he had a nickname 'Freddie the Coke') who provided Sheila with a regular supply of hard drugs! Jeremy never actually said to me that he suspected that his parents would pay off the debts incurred, but I got the impression that in the back of his mind, that if the rumours, and beliefs or knowlege the police, Jeremy and others had concerning Sheila's drug debts were true, that Jeremy must have suspected that when things came to a head, as they surely would do that his parents probably would have stepped in. The problem was, however, that the Bamber parents didn't have the kind of monies being rumoured or talked about to hand. But, what I did manage to glean through diligent questioning of Jeremy was that his father (dad) Neville had  a somewhat 'ace up his sleeve', in the fact that he could have raised the cash required from 'two independant sources'. Firstly, Neville had been left 'his parents house' as part of their estate when they had passed away. There was a £50,000 loan that Neville had given to Anthony Pargeter and his sister relating to Nevilles parents house being converted into flats for rent! The agreement of the loan involved it being recoverable once the property had been converted and sold, at which point Neville would recieve £25,000 each from Anthony and his sister! Secondly, Neville owned a small piece of Land that he had bought off the Eatons and the Boutflours! This piece of land had been promised by his parents to him (Jeremy), but apparently Neville was considering selling it - but both these two options would take time to come to fruition!

By midnight 6th/7th August 1985, time was running out, the necessary monies required to pay off Sheila's debts were not available!

[mike tesko]

During my first contact with Jeremy whilst we were both incarcerated at HMP Full Sutton, Stamford Bridge, York between 1989 and 1990, it was Jeremy himself who told me that he had known about 'Sheila's drug debts', and that these had risen to somewhere in the region of £50,000. He told me that Sheila had an Iranian boyfriend, named 'Freddie Emani' (apparently, he had a nickname 'Freddie the Coke') who provided Sheila with a regular supply of hard drugs! Jeremy never actually said to me that he suspected that his parents would pay off the debts incurred, but I got the impression that in the back of his mind, that if the rumours, and beliefs or knowlege the police, Jeremy and others had concerning Sheila's drug debts were true, that Jeremy must have suspected that when things came to a head, as they surely would do that his parents probably would have stepped in. The problem was, however, that the Bamber parents didn't have the kind of monies being rumoured or talked about to hand. But, what I did manage to glean through diligent questioning of Jeremy was that his father (dad) Neville had  a somewhat 'ace up his sleeve', in the fact that he could have raised the cash required from 'two independant sources'. Firstly, Neville had been left 'his parents house' as part of their estate when they had passed away. There was a £50,000 loan that Neville had given to Anthony Pargeter and his sister relating to Nevilles parents house being converted into flats for rent! The agreement of the loan involved it being recoverable once the property had been converted and sold, at which point Neville would recieve £25,000 each from Anthony and his sister! Secondly, Neville owned a small piece of Land that he had bought off the Eatons and the Boutflours! This piece of land had been promised by his parents to him (Jeremy), but apparently Neville was considering selling it - but both these two options would take time to come to fruition!

By midnight 6th/7th August 1985, time was running out, the necessary monies required to pay off Sheila's debts were not available!

What became apparent to me, in my earlier dealings with Jeremy, both as a result of me spending so much time in his company during the day time and evening environment, and reflectively upon retiring to the confines of my own single cell at night, which was at one stage across the corridor from Jeremys cell, and later on next door to his cell on 'B' wing (I moved cells because the window of mine faced onto a courtyard and the view was a depressing one, so when the opportunity arose for me to get a window view that looked out and you could see the distant countryside beyond the prison fences and walls I snapped it up sharpish), I suspected many things, much of which might not necessarily have been true. Firstly, I did not believe that Sheila had killed herself. I did not believe that she had killed the other victims either, at least if she had had some involvement in the killing of the others, I felt very strongly that she must have had or had had an accomplice! I harboured these thoughts and kept them to myself, until one day I plucked up enough courage to tell Jeremy that I thought that Sheila must have had an accomplice! She couldn't have killed everyone all by herself, she couldn't have killed herself, I said to him...

When he asked me who I thought could have been Sheila's accomplice, I blurted out nervously, 'why, it must have been you, Jeremy', I said...

His reaction was startling - 'You Clever bastard', he responded!

[mike tesko]

I had good reason to suspect that Jeremy had been Sheila's accomplice prior to me opening up to him!

I knew for example, because Jeremy had told me himself, that he had been teaching Sheila how to handle, load and fire the .22 semi-automatic rifle which Neville had purchased from Radcliffes the gun dealor in the High Street, Colchester, on the 30th November, 1984. I therefore strongly believed that 'Sheila could have loaded additional bullets' which had been required in order to complete the shootings in question! All the arguments I had heard and have heard since from the other relatives 'that Sheila didn't know one end of a gun from the other, and that because she had poor co-ordination she wouldn't have been able 'to pick up 15 additional bullets' and 'load them into the magazine of the rifle', let alone pull the trigger, and shoot everybody so accurately, seems to me not to have been true! I reasoned then, as I do now that 'Sheila could have done all of those things'..

I also knew about 'Sheila's drug debt'...

I also knew that Neville and June 'had paid for a flat in Maide Vale for Sheila', that 'they had paid for all her carpets and furniture', and 'that they paid all her household bills'!

I knew about Sheila's Iranian boyfriend, 'Freddie the Coke'..

I knew 'quite a lot of things' that favoured 'the involvement of somebody else in these shootings', somebody 'other than' just Sheila herself!

[mike tesko]

I had good reason to suspect that Jeremy had been Sheila's accomplice prior to me opening up to him!

I knew for example, because Jeremy had told me himself, that he had been teaching Sheila how to handle, load and fire the .22 semi-automatic rifle which Neville had purchased from Radcliffes the gun dealor in the High Street, Colchester, on the 30th November, 1984. I therefore strongly believed that 'Sheila could have loaded additional bullets' which had been required in order to complete the shootings in question! All the arguments I had heard and have heard since from the other relatives 'that Sheila didn't know one end of a gun from the other, and that because she had poor co-ordination she wouldn't have been able 'to pick up 15 additional bullets' and 'load them into the magazine of the rifle', let alone pull the trigger, and shoot everybody so accurately, seems to me not to have been true! I reasoned then, as I do now that 'Sheila could have done all of those things'..

I also knew about 'Sheila's drug debt'...

I also knew that Neville and June 'had paid for a flat in Maide Vale for Sheila', that 'they had paid for all her carpets and furniture', and 'that they paid all her household bills'!

I knew about Sheila's Iranian boyfriend, 'Freddie the Coke'..

I knew 'quite a lot of things' that favoured 'the involvement of somebody else in these shootings', somebody 'other than' just Sheila herself!

But one thing which struck me about Jeremys possible involvement in the role of him having been his sisters accomplice in these shootings, was the fact that Sheila herself should end up dead, like the other four victims!

[mike tesko]

I have often pondered whether or not, and if Jeremy had been his sisters accomplice, why he would have killed her off, when in a strange sort of way, it would surely have been better for him, if Sheila had lived..

[mike tesko]

I have often pondered whether or not, and if Jeremy had been his sisters accomplice, why he would have killed her off, when in a strange sort of way, it would surely have been better for him, if Sheila had lived..

It seems to me to be somewhat pertinent to the argument, that if Jeremy was his sisters accomplice, and he intended to try to ensure that only he benefitted from his parents estate(s) upon their deaths, that it might be more beneficial for Sheila to be the sole survivor of the tragedy, someone who could not benefit from her parents estate(s) because she had killed them herself - in a similar sort of a way that Jeremy was prevented from benefitting after he was subsequently convicted...

Would it have been better, or worse, for Jeremy, if Sheila had not died in the tragedy?

[mike tesko]

On the afternoon of 6th August, 1985, Sheila and one of the twins visited Jeremy who was working on the tractor in one of the farms fields. She took Jeremy his lunch!

The next time he saw Sheila was when he went back to the farmhouse at around supper time, when his parents appeared to be saying harsh words to Sheila regarding her inability to look after her two children all by herself!

Had Sheila gone back to the farmhouse after taking Jeremy his lunch to the field, and had she deliberately sought to try and upset or cause trouble with her parents? Was this part of the plan - ask parents to pay off the drug debt because otherwise the drug barons, might come and hurt them! Was this why June Bamber did not go to bible class that very evening?

And, why would two international phone calls be made, one at around midnight (6th / 7th August, 1985), and a second one at 2.50am (7th August 1985), be made to a drug barons room in a Belguim hotel?

[mike tesko]

On the afternoon of 6th August, 1985, Sheila and one of the twins visited Jeremy who was working on the tractor in one of the farms fields. She took Jeremy his lunch!

The next time he saw Sheila was when he went back to the farmhouse at around supper time, when his parents appeared to be saying harsh words to Sheila regarding her inability to look after her two children all by herself!

Had Sheila gone back to the farmhouse after taking Jeremy his lunch to the field, and had she deliberately sought to try and upset or cause trouble with her parents? Was this part of the plan - ask parents to pay off the drug debt because otherwise the drug barons, might come and hurt them! Was this why June Bamber did not go to bible class that very evening?

And, why would two international phone calls be made, one at around midnight (6th / 7th August, 1985), and a second one at 2.50am (7th August 1985), be made to a drug barons room in a Belguim hotel?

And, what of the shotgun blast that was heard by a local resident (Smith)  to have been discharged in the vicinity of whF at about 10pm, on the 6th August?

Odd, that at the same time that Pamela Boutflour was speaking to her sister (June Bamber) on the telephone, after Sheila had pranced off without speaking to Pamela, and that June should tell Pamela that she was bringing Sheila and the children for tea on the following day, because June said that Sheila was  and had been behaving strangely, that a shotgun blast should be discharged outside and close to the farmhouse, or as the case may be, inside the farmhouse?

Jeremy had already left the farmhouse in his astra GTE by 9.30pm, and Neville had taken the tractor and trailer to the fields to collect the last harvest crop of the day - so who fired the shotgun?

Sheila?

Hitman?

[mike tesko]

And, what of the shotgun blast that was heard by a local resident (Smith)  to have been discharged in the vicinity of whF at about 10pm, on the 6th August?

Odd, that at the same time that Pamela Boutflour was speaking to her sister (June Bamber) on the telephone, after Sheila had pranced off without speaking to Pamela, and that June should tell Pamela that she was bringing Sheila and the children for tea on the following day, because June said that Sheila was  and had been behaving strangely, that a shotgun blast should be discharged outside and close to the farmhouse, or as the case may be, inside the farmhouse?

Jeremy had already left the farmhouse in his astra GTE by 9.30pm, and Neville had taken the tractor and trailer to the fields to collect the last harvest crop of the day - so who fired the shotgun?

Sheila?

Hitman?

It is also very intriguing that during the early hours of 7th August 1985, that it has been rumoured (a) Sheila's natural mother visited Sheila at whf, or that (b) there was an international telephone call between the pair at about 2.30am...

As yet I have not been able to lay my hands on any solid evidence supporting either of these matters, but now that I have access to all the files again, I shall endeavour to locate and find it, if it exists...

[mike tesko]

It is also very intriguing that during the early hours of 7th August 1985, that it has been rumoured (a) Sheila's natural mother visited Sheila at whf, or that (b) there was an international telephone call between the pair at about 2.30am...

As yet I have not been able to lay my hands on any solid evidence supporting either of these matters, but now that I have access to all the files again, I shall endeavour to locate and find it, if it exists...

Is this evidence and information currently being withheld under pii?

[sherlock]

Essex police discovered that there had been an International phone call made from the scene,  on two occasions prior to the tragedy. One call had been made from farmhouse at about midnight, and the other at just before 3am. The calls were traced to an hotel room in Belguim where a well known drug baron was staying. Essex police suspected at one stage that he was involved in 'the hitman' plot to kill the family because it was rumourd that Sheila Caffell had run up a huge (drugs) bill estimated to be in the region of £50,000, and involved one of Sheila's boyfriends 'Freddie Emani' supplying her over a year long period prior to her last breakdown and admission into hospital. At one stage, Essex police were trying to identify 'the scruffy looking hunched man' who police saw walking away from the farmhouse about an hour or so, after police (3.35am?) had first arrived at the scene. Emani was arrested in London and taken to Essex to be interviewed where he was spoken too about his relationship with Sheila and the possibility that he could have been 'that' scruffy looking man at the scene (this took place during the first investigation, SC/688/85, when police were treating the case as 'four murders and a suicide'...

Much later, when the case changed direction and it became, SC/786/85, 'five murders', Essex police focussed on 'a hitman' theory, involving Jeremy Bamber and Mathew MacDonald...

This part of the investigation petered out when MacDonalds alibi checked out, and from that point forward Essex police made Jeremy himself the main suspect!

Can you tell us the name of the Hotel in Belgium please ?

[mike tesko]

Can you tell us the name of the Hotel in Belgium please ?

I have the information on an 'Action Report', and now that I have returned home, I shall endeavour to locate it and post a copy of the information on the forum in this thread!

This matter was also linked to a drugs operation that was 'ongoing' involving Sheila, Freddie, Jeremy, Mugford, and others she lived with in London, also  Hector McClean, from Scotland at the time of the shootings! A neighbour of Jeremy's contacted police about what were believed to have been cannibis plants that Jeremy was growing in his back garden at 9 Head Street, Goldhanger! Jeremy was under surveillance by the drugs squad at the time of the shootings! They followed him everywhere and would have followed his astra GTE away from the farmhouse at 9.30pm on the evening of the 6th August to his cottage, and back to whf when after he contacted police about Neville Bambers call he was instructed to go to the farmhouse  where he would be met by the police! Drug Squad Officers even attended the funerals of Neville and june Bamber, and Sheila Caffells at At Nicholas's Church, Tolleshunt D'Arcy in an effort to keep track on drug suspects that were under their radar!

The drug Squad operation lasted about two months, overlapping the shooting tragedy at whf (two 28 day periods) and involved the phones of all the suspects being tapped / bugged, including the telephone line at whf! Much of this evidence is still being withheld under pii rules, but snippets of evidence do exist regarding this operation in the disclosed files! The Operation in question seems to have been instigated by Southend on sea police station, who had their own Crime Reference No.'s for each of the five death victims of the whf tragedy, which differed from the Essex police ones of SC/886/85 (four murders and a suicide), and SC/786/85 (five murders)!

Information existed to suggest that the aforementioned international drug Baron was intending to purchase an expensive property in the Chelmsford area, but that the deal fell through after the shooting tragedy at whf!

There were also stories of low flying aircraft seen flying over fields which were farmed by Neville Bamber and his family (Jeremy in particular) which were strongly suspected of dropping packages of drugs from the air! These packages were suspected of being cannibis!