I agree 100% that Rolf Harris has still rightly been convicted of 10 offences.
My point was that in relation to the 11th charge an independent witness made up his whole story.
I made the point to show how easily it happens.
In the other case i highlighted the facts appear to be that a girl kept pestering the poor bloke for sex and when he rejected her - she made up allegations that could have seen him in prison for 12 years - a case of "if i can't have you then no one can" for sure - some people do react like this to being rejected.
I never ever forget the true nature of the Bamber murders - apart from others it was a double child murder.
I for one do not yet accept that the circumstantial evidence against Jeremy Bamber is overwhelming.
If the silencer was not used then Sheila could well have done it - therefore Neville could well have phoned Jeremy.
What circumstantial evidence apart from the above convinces you beyond doubt ?
One of the big mysteries to this case for me - and i suspect others - is that the glove seems to fit Sheila very well - but equally the glove appears to fit Jeremy.
It seems that strangely they were both fairly likely to have done it.
But it could only have been one of them.
Against Sheila is the fact that she told her psychiatrist that she had thoughts of killing her children - and i do not believe anyone else would have known she had told him this - and the significance of Psalm 51 seems again to place it on her.
I also have no problem believing that Sheila showered after the murders before killing herself - as a form of ritual cleaning.
On the other hand there is good reason to suspect Jeremy.
A very baffling case indeed as i am sure many forum members will agree.
In a previous post you mention body language, tone of voice and other verbal or non-verbal cues which influenced your decision to find Bamber innocent on the balance of probabilities, or enough doubt cast on the evidence to secure his release.
If you look at the Bamber family photographs over the years you will see a boy who was unused to be made a fuss of or spent time with (boy with hose), then someone who was accustoming to family life (boy with Sheila, mother and dog and registry office), then we proceed to the rather strange Jubilee photograph, where Jeremy has taken on June's colouring, possibly rationalizing that to side with her will work out better for him in the long run than hard taskmaster Nevill, yet beginning to drift apart from all, as evidenced by posture.
Post-murders we have the arrogance exhibited to Barbara Wilson as he barks orders from the swivel chair, feet placed on desk, his coquettishness evinced from the back of a Police van, his drugged up self, his incredulity vis-à- vis Police shackled in handcuffs. One notes the reports of questioning answered in sing-song passionless tone and discomfort as pertinent queries are rebuffed with "
no comment" replies too frequent for my liking.
The evidence that Jeremy hated his parents is overwhelming. It comes not only from Julie, but James Richards, Brett Collins and Chris Nevill, of whom only the former gave evidence at trial. This fact is central in gaining an insight into the murders, because once you realize that his parents had controlled his every action, made every decision and influenced every outcome almost from birth until his early twenties you will begin to understand why these crimes occurred.
Of course we can't cover twenty years in one paragraph. I have no wish to excuse or to mitigate, but possibly to understand a little more. Here was a boy who was removed from central London and deposited in a rural, bucolic environment. He was uprooted at eight years old to another countryside milieu, where his whole raison d'etre was that he was special because his family was moneyed, not because he was loved.
As he grows older his parents' stranglehold becomes ever looser as Gresham's and its memories become a thing of the past and Jeremy mixes with his own crowd at Colchester and London. But Nevill and June still control the purse strings and Jeremy feels the dilemma: shackled to people who were always at best intimate strangers, yet who now give him the ultimatum of leaving Suzette or face disinheritance.
Jeremy sees the mementoes of Nevill's past cluttered on the office table, amongst them the extortionate bills for Sheila's recent stay at St. Andrews. He reasons that she may well fall ill again, there's the mooted allowance for her and possible private school fees for the twins, who are nearing the age when he himself was unfeelingly packed off to school. He also resents the way his parents dote on their grandchildren and cannot work through the reason for the discrepancy, other than he is superior to them and is determined his will will prevail.
