NGB made a post recently on the Bamber forum regarding JM and the possibility of her having been arrested?
There’s no evidence to suggest she was* but in the Simon Hall case, it didn’t become clear to me that Jamie Barker had also been arrested and questioned under caution by Suffolk police and considered a possible suspect until around the time of the Zenith burglary discovery in 2012/13. It was following this that I recognised Simon Hall and all his previous legal representatives had never requested full disclosure on this fact - either pre-trial nor in the years that followed.
*Someone would have surely got wind of JM having been arrested, one of her friends around the time for example, and spilled the beans before now?
I found it interesting when NGB raised this on the Bamber board and wondered how long he’d considered this to be a possibility?
Re ‘all previous legal representatives had never requested full disclosure on this fact’ should include, that I’m aware of
Jeremy Bamber wrote the following in 2012:
Julie Mugford and Elizabeth RimmingtonEssex Police were convinced on the basis of all available evidence that Sheila had killed the family and committed suicide. On the 7th September 1985 Elizabeth Rimmington telephoned Witham Police Station to say that Julie Mugford was withholding vital evidence in the White House Farm enquiry. This was at 4pm. This telephone call was documented as Telephone Report Number One. The exact content of this telephone call from Ms Rimmington is still a mystery as Essex Police continue to withhold this document from the Defence.
This is the sequence of events5:00pm D.S. Stan Jones goes to the address of Malcolm Waters and takes Julie Mugford into custody. (HOLMES 64/13 and 1/12)
While in custody at Witham Julie asked that her father is contacted so she can talk to him. (HOLMES 5/10)
Julie Mugford was interviewed under caution. (HOLMES 1/49)
7:00pm to 10:40pm D.S. Jones and D.I. Miller interviewed Juilie together. 11:00pm to 02:00am D.C.I. Jones interviewed Julie.
The taped record and written record of Julie Mugford’s interviews on 7th September 1985 remain undisclosed.
Brett Collins, Mathew MacDonald, Christine Bacon and I were all arrested on the 8th September with:-
“Suspicion of being concerned with the murder of June and Nevill Bamber, Sheila, Daniel and Nicholas Caffell.”So, there is every reason to suspect that Julie was taken into custody for the same reason
Page 3 & 4 here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5DLsf0UggyWeUVwcWFTT1JkaEE/view
Why does Bamber ‘suspect’ it was for the same reason?