Extract from 'Blood Relations' to back up what I was saying a few days ago about the so called 'greedy' relations.....Why any inheritance was not a motive for them to frame JB...
"Of the dozens of wealthy farming dynasties that owned the rich arable farmland of Essex between the wars, the speakmans were among the wealthiest.........In total they owned or rented 6 farms covering many hundreds of acres........they had land and money in abundance"
That may be so. But didn't someone say that Peter Boutflour had nothing of his own? And granny Speakman only died a few years ago. She was the one with the money not the Boutflours.
The Speakmans, The Bambers, The Boutflours and the Eatons, pretty much drank from the same Jug. Hence there was nothing unusual about Nevill buying a piece of land for the Eatons, etc etc. Both Bobby Boutflour and Peter Eaton came from less wealthy backgrounds but only comparatively and was irrelevant once they married into the Speakman family. All the farms were originally Speakman farms and tenancy's were given to the Bamber's, Boutflour's and Eatons on Marriage. By the time Granny Speakman died most of her wealth had already been transferred to the surviving families.
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The monies loaned to the Boutflours, Eaton's, and Pargeters, in connection with land deals, by Ralph Bamber, was not included in his estate, and amounted to several cases of fraud. In other words, the value of Ralph Bambers estate at the time of his death was "falsified to exclude these amounts", it is irrelevant that the same relatives to whom the loans were given, would later benefit from those monies - an example of what I am talking about, relates to the monies loaned to the Eatons to pay off the Land, which was not included in Ralph Bambers estate at the time of his death, and the fact that Anthony Pargeter and his sister inherited Ralph's estate that was owed monies by the Eatons...
Yet to be determined...
Is whether or not, the Eatons repaid the Monies they borrowed from Ralph Bamber that should have been part of his estate, was repaid at any stage, or by way of agreement to the Pargeters?
The jury which tried Jeremy for these murders, had a right to know about these deceptions, especially since it was the relatives who introduced the motive for Jeremy being the killer (so that he could get his hands on his parents estates - funny how the estate of Ralph Bamber was drafted up to exclude hundreds of thousands of pounds, loaned to the Eatons, and the Pargeters...
But for Jeremys arrest and conviction for these murders, I understand that he would have been demanding the return of these monies, from all parties concerned - to be pondered, is where would the relatives have raised all that money from to repay it back to Ralph Bambers estate...
