Michelle Diskin Bates claimed,
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My world went into a tailspin in May of 2000, when my brother was arrested for one of the highest-profile crimes in Britain in recent years, the murder of Jill Dando, much-loved BBC presenter. My mum didn’t tell me because she thought it would all blow over and I wouldn’t need to be bothered with it; after all, it was a mistake. So, I heard it on the radio as I was getting ready to go to a ladies’ Bible study, and my life as I knew it fell apart. Nothing … could have prepared me for such a trauma. My nice peaceful life was replaced by a nightmare.https://www.sortedmagazine.men/pardoned-by-alex-willmott-chief-features-writer/In her book ‘
Stand Against Injustice’ Michelle Diskin Bates refers to her time spent in a psychiatric facility a year or so before her brother Barry George’s arrest for the murder of Jill Dando. Did she really have a ‘
nice peaceful life’ prior to her brothers arrest? She apparently claimed she’d kill herself if she were to return home?
What’s fact and what’s fiction?
She referred to her ‘
hum drum’ life prior to her stay in a psychiatric facility but was this the root cause for why she was allegedly suicidal? Was she looking for excitement? Did being the
face of the Barry George campaign, as referred to in her uncle Mikes book, give her the excitement she’d always craved?
What appeals to Michelle Diskin Bates by defending convicted murderers and does she
really believe Sheila Caffell , given her mental health issues and fragility at the time, murdered her own children and adoptive parents then somehow killed herself?