If I thought for one minute that JB had been guilty,I WOULDN'T be on the forum---SIMPLES !
This is exactly what I mean when I say that a judge is only as good,or no good in this case,as the information he receives regarding the case and as we know there were a LOT of documents kept from the trial,which if EP had done their job PROPERLY there'd have been no need for a trial at all.
AE hadn't forced the issue of Sheila's " strange behaviour " or the " odd " letter which Sheila had sent to AE whilst in hospital where Sheila had " described her own body ?" and the devil being her friend. This was in January 1985,when AE had described Sheila as " probably having a nervous breakdown ".
Jeremy had been the EASIEST and most convenient target because he was still alive.
It has to also be argued that IF he had left the rifle on the kitchen table----which MANY believe he had,who'd moved it after he'd left for home ? And what happened after that ? NOBODY knows.
NB DID ring Jeremy and NB also rang EP too.
I DON'T believe that Jeremy ever understood the extent of what Sheila had been capable of,as unfortunately neither did anyone else,but the fact that this case has been ALL about Jeremy is totally WRONG as EP should have looked further. It is they who've let the man down and should be made to pay for this horrendous mistake.
It's human nature that you and others will continue to see this case differently. I don't and never will.!
".......you and others will continue to see this case differently. I never will" That statement reminds me of the soldier who wrote to his mother telling her that during drill, everyone was out of step, but him!!!!!
I'm not certain what is your point regarding AE's knowledge of Sheila's illness. I suspect, because of the family's penchant for secrecy, she knew little, but this may have been what you meant.
I totally disagree that Jeremy was ignorant of Sheila's illness. If there's any truth in the Bambers wanting to move Sheila and the twins into Jeremy's house,they'd have needed to furnish him with an explanation and he'd undoubtedly have had questions of his own. As to what you allege Sheila way capable of. I don't believe she was and if the Bambers had thought for one minute that she was, they'd probably have had a lock put on what passed for a gun cupboard before she arrived and TOLD Jeremy not to leave guns laying around. I will NEVER believe that Sheila was who you've tried to turn her into. You've turned Jeremy into a spineless cretin, who needed someone to wipe his backside, in the way you describe him. Others, who knew him, have described him as being on the lookout -Ooops!- for anything he could turn to his advantage. I suspect that neither sheila nor Jeremy were/are how you portray them as being'
Re the rifle. I believe he said he'd left it on the settle. At 24, surely it was his responsibility to have put it away.
If you believe Jeremy is innocent, you HAVE to believe in those phone calls because without them, there's no way he's innocent.
For emotional reasons, when I first joined, I WANTED Jeremy to be innocent. I believed all the lies that were told -you know, as well as I, what those lies were- and I MAY have gone on believing them, but the stories changed. The lies became more and more fantastic. Guess what, the more fantastic they became, the more I started to question what I was being told, and the more it started to feel as if I'd been wrong, and the more I found myself making excuses for him. When I ran out of excuses, there was only one answer left.
