A documentary that looks at both the cult and the case of Bamber i would watch but it's fair to point out that we don't know what the tone and content will be yet. It's perhaps a good sign the CT are worried but remember, the CT complained about the ITV drama before it was aired because they weren't allowed to write and direct but actually, IMO, it oversimplified the case against him making his conviction look much weaker than it really is,
Agreed
In the 2002 Court of Appeal (CoA) judgement it’s stated at para 110 here
http://www.homepage-link.to/justice/judgements/Bamber/index.html‘
She and the appellant spent the following weekend with Colin Caffell and on 12 August she went to the house in Goldhanger with the appellant. There he told her that the police had been a bit slack because they had not done all the fingerprinting at White House Farm. On 16 August Miss Mugford attended the funerals of Nevill and June Bamber with the appellant and then on 19 August the funerals of Sheila Caffell and her children. During that period the witness spoke of the appellant taking her out for frequent meals, and buying expensive clothes for himself and for her. She described the appellant's mood during this period as "very happy". After one of the funerals they drank champagne and cocktails.What’s not factored into the above is what occurred on the
18th August when Bamber ‘hoovered’ Anji Greaves, the day before ‘the funerals of Sheila Caffell and her children’
‘Anji, an old friend of Bamber’s, though not an old lover, said he looked her up to satisfy his desire for older women.
He called on her at her flat in Kensington, West London, two days after his parents were buried.
‘And Bamber had been seen …”sobbing uncontrollably” at the funeral, Anji said.
We were just sat on the sofa watching videos and he made a pass. He put his arm around me and we kissed.
He told me he had been getting fed up with Julie and asked me how to tell her they were finished.
He said he really wanted to get married …
(By Kieron Saunders and Shan Lancaster for the Sun newspaper - 29th October 1986)
When Bamber told Anji Greaves ‘he had been getting fed up with Julie and asked me how to tell her they were finished’ did he tell Anji he had been taking Julie ‘out for frequent meals, and buying expensive clothes for himself and for her’ ?
Then at Para 111 from CoA judgement
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Miss Mugford spent the weekend of 17-18 August 1985 with the appellant in Eastbourne and it was then that she began to ask how he could behave as he was doing. She kept telling him "Ł2,000 for five lives". The following week the couple went to Amsterdam for two days, staying in expensive hotels and eating out. On 27 August Miss Mugford returned alone to her lodgings in London and she told her friend Susan Battersby of what the appellant had done.So after what was possibly an exhausting weekend in Eastbourne Bamber called on Anji Greaves ‘flat in Kensington, West London’
What did Anji Greaves think about Bamber taking Julie to ‘Amsterdam for two days, staying in expensive hotels and eating out’ on the
25th - 26th August after supposedly asking her ‘how to tell her they were finished’? And where did Bamber tell Anji he was when he went to Amsterdam and who did he tell her he was with?
Para 112
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On Saturday 31 August Julie Mugford asked the appellant whether he loved her. He said he did not know. Again they spoke about the murders. Miss Mugford said she could not cope with him behaving so normally and asked why he had told her what had happened. She said she felt guilt for the two of them. The appellant told her he was doing everybody a favour and there was nothing to feel guilty about. Later that night the appellant told her that she was the best friend he had ever had and he had entrusted his life to her.Para 113
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On Tuesday 3 September the couple met again in London at the flat which had belonged to Sheila Caffell. Again Miss Mugford raised the question of their relationship and his part in the killing. During their conversation the appellant received a telephone call from an ex-girlfriend and Miss Mugford heard him asking her out. She became angry and threw an ornament box at a mirror and then slapped the appellant. He became very angry and twisted her arm up behind her back. Four days later, she went to the policeWas Virginia Greaves an ‘ex girlfriend’ when she allegedly phoned Bamber or was it at this time they were having ‘an affair’ ?
Brett Collins to Kay Page (https://www.dropbox.com/s/cz3kitv4d4xsh5i/Brett%20interview.pdf?dl=0)
’They were kind of part-time whenever he wanted sex* I gathered, she wasn’t, she hadn’t moved in. I don’t think he wanted her to move in because there were other girls that were coming and going
The lady that came with me and we found the lawyer for Jeremy. What turned out was that her younger sister was having an affair at the same time with Jeremy and she’s the girl that was in London with us at his sisters flat when she’d died and been buried. She answered the phone one day and it was Julie ringing to talk to him and his mistress answered the phone and that’s what set the whole thing off
About two weeks after this happening, the murders, she was about to get married to some guy she was engaged to but all that time she’d been having an affair with Jeremy. But they wanted to keep it from the press. So nobody actually knows this until now.
I knew her through Jeremy and I knew her younger sister because she came and stayed with us in London in the townhouse.
She posed as Jeremy’s sort of other girlfriend but it wasn’t her at all it was her younger sister and they all went to ground just so they wouldn’t bring any heat on the sister that who was getting married’
*Julie made it clear in her evidence to police she was NOT having sex with Bamber
The ITV drama didn’t factor in any of the above.
Did Carol Ann Lee recognise these significant factors at the time of researching and writing her book?
It appears to me Virginia Greaves perjured herself to cover for both herself and her older sister Anji.
Anji’s ‘affair’ with Bamber would surely have caused issues between the sisters plus Virginia was seemingly ‘getting married’ to someone else.
This would also highlight Bamber’s further infidelities and behaviours patterns in that he was apparently sleeping with both sisters at/around the same time?]
What were Anji and Virginia Greaves told by Bamber, if anything, about the ‘incident’ when he ‘
became very angry and twisted her arm up behind her back’ And if they were told anything by Bamber what did they tell the police?
And what was Brett Collins evidence given to police at the time and what does he say now?
Para 139 of CoA judgement
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Apart from Julie Mugford the appellant suggested that other witnesses had told lies about him during the trial. They included Mrs Mugford, James Richards, Dorothy Foakes and Robert Boutflour.What about Virginia Greaves lies?
Not read or seen any w/s of what either sister said. Only CAL's interpretation of what occured...
'Brett called at the cafe to remind Jeremy that the antiques dealer was due, so they all returned to the flat.
While the dealer was looking through the items from the farm, the telephone rang.Jeremy answered, speaking ‘in a friendly manner’ to the caller.
‘Who is it?’ Julie asked, growing suspicious.
‘Virginia,’ he said.
Julie knew at once that he meant Virginia Greaves, and asked him to put the phone down.When he carried on talking, she cut the call herself.
They then began to argue and Jeremy admitted he was seeing Virginia.
When the telephone rang again and he answered it, Julie stormed through to Sheila’s bedroom.
‘I was so angry,’ she remembered. ‘I picked up a Chinese box of Jeremy’s and threw it against a mirror, which smashed.’
Still on the line, Virginia heard the splintering glass. ‘What’s that?’ she asked.
Jeremy replied, ‘Oh, Julie just smashing some plates up.’
There was another crash.
‘What’s that?’ asked Virginia again.
‘Julie’s just put her wrists through the window.’
Shocked, Virginia told him definitely, ‘I don’t want anything to do with that and I’ll speak to you some time.’
And Bambers lies to Virginia Greaves - or was it Anji Greaves who phoned Bamber?
