Jeremy Bamber Forum
JEREMY BAMBER CASE => Jeremy Bamber Case Discussion => Topic started by: Gulik on March 01, 2011, 10:18:PM
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Evening all,
I know Jeremy Bamber was adopted by the Bambers.
I was wondering if anyone has considered that the couple we are told are Jeremy's real parents (the Marshams), might not be. Or the father might not be.
Is anything really known about his origins?
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I live in a very small village, smaller than Midsomer (!) and I know of at least 2 children who were adopted by their real fathers (but not their real mothers). Strange things happen in farming communities, but possibly not in this case. Didn't Jeremy's real father go to the press?
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The real father spoke to the press, see below, probably because the press went to him. His wording is rather odd where he says "I don't know and don't wish to know whether he is our child or not."
THE real dad of Jeremy Bamber last night said he wants nothing to do with his murdering son after hearing the killer was after his help to launch another bid for freedom.
Major Leslie Marsham branded the 43-year-old a psychopath who has no chance of being reunited with him or his natural mother Juliet.
Bamber was jailed for life in August 1986 for massacring five members of his adoptive family at their remote farmhouse to claim a pounds 500,000 inheritance.
He denied the killing, claiming he didn't need the money because his real parents were wealthy and he could have got cash from them.
His lawyers argue that had the jury known about his parentage, they might not have convicted him.
Speaking for the first time about his father, a former servant for the Queen who lived at Buckingham Palace, Bamber said from his cell at Whitemoor jail, Cambs: "I'd like their support, what son wouldn't?
"I am sure my life would have been very different if I hadn't been adopted. I would like to be acknowledged by my genetic parents."
But 72-year-old Mr Marsham angrily dismissed any chance of that.
He said: "It was traumatic when we had to hand him over. He went to lovely people, who looked after him and gave him the best start in life.
"He abused them. He's a murderer. It's well proven. He's as guilty as hell. Most murderers complain to the bitter end they never did it.
"We had no part in his upbringing whatsoever. I don't know and don't wish to know whether he is our child or not. He has ruined our lives. He is a horrible man."
Retired Mr Marsham, who lives in a mews house near Hampton Court Palace, West London, which was a gift from the Queen, added: "We told his probation officer we wanted nothing to do with him. There's not going to be any reuniting.
"We have perfectly nice children, who've also been greatly affected by this. Quite frankly he's nothing to do with us."
Bamber, who shot dead his adoptive parents, sister and two young nephews, told how he was eight when he found out about his real mother and father.
Former RAF pilot Neville Bamber and his wife June took him under their wing after they found out they couldn't have children.
The killer said: "I read all the documentation and correspondence about my real parents. My adoptive parents kept in touch with them for four years. I do understand why I was adopted and don't feel any hurt.
"As far as I am aware they met at a dance, but I've never had contact with them and don't know if they know about me, but would assume they do. Of course if I had not have been adopted I would have been looked after by them, but that is not relevant now."
ALTHOUGH he has never met his dad since adoption, Bamber said he still harbours a lot of affection for him. He found out details of him from rich and famous guide Who's Who.
Bamber was born out of an illicit affair between Mr Marsham and his then lover Juliet Wheeler in 1961. The couple later married but put up their son for adoption soon after his birth due, it is believed, to the stigma attached to having an illegitimate child at the time.
His birth certificate showed he was born at St Mary Abbots Hospital in Kensington, West London. It lists his father as a sergeant in the Royal Army Medical Corps and gives his residence as the Hebridean island of St Kilda.
Instead of having a privileged upbringing at Buckingham Palace, their son went to live with the Bambers on their farm in the Essex village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy.
More at: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/He+went+to+lovely+people+who+gave+him+the+best+start+in+life.+He...-a0112751004
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Leslie Marsham 1984, at Buckingham Palace with the proclamation of the birth of Prince Harry.
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I wouldn't expect the natural father to be truthful, given the circumstances, especially if he's a freemason.