message for Insp. Clousseau. "I hate this place"
That message could have been there for years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2360857.stm
Key photos 'withheld from Bamber trial' one was the scrawl "I hate this place".
The other was the photo of the open Bible found on Sheila's body.
Could that message be attributed to Sheila?
Could the Bible fall onto Sheila's body like that ?
It could, indeed, be attributed to Sheila. From what we know of her teenage years, it's highly probably that there were many occasions when she was confined to barracks. Not in any way does it surprise me, if, made up to the nines, pouty lips and big eyes, skirt barely covering her essentials, possibly knowing there was a hot date waiting, refused permission to leave the house, she wrote, with feeling "I HATE THIS PLACE"
Now, the 'tableau'? I have the (dubious) benefit of having been married to a stage manager -I may be wrong, but I believe Jeremy to have learned something of stagecraft whilst at school?- so I know that setting a scene is all about insinuation and illusion. The audience couldn't care less about the minutiae, ergo, it matters not a jot if the angle of the weapon isn't commensurate with a bullet hitting a certain spot, all they see is a corpse holding a gun. Now, if we look at the position of the bible, the only way................NO! I'm not going there because there's NO way that Sheila could have put it there. It simply adds emphasis to what the gunman/stage manager wishes the audience to believe.