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Alleged Miscarriages of Justice => Jeremy Bamber and the callous murder of his father, mother, sister and twin nephews. Case effectively CLOSED by CCRC on basis of NO APPEAL REFERRAL. => Topic started by: adam on January 19, 2015, 07:33:04 PM
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3am - 'I've not slept all night, there is something wrong at the farm. Everything is going well'.
A few hours later 'A police car is coming to pick you up'
From then on Julie or her families life will never be the same again. Being whisked over to WHF, Eastbourne, Amsterdam, London and Champagne funerals. Sometimes against her wishes as Bamber insisted on also bringing jolly up buddy Brett along. Her (second) degree and work having to be left behind, indefinitely.
After a month of soul searching, confiding to several friends and hearing Bamber ask another woman out, she approached the police. Risking serious perjury charges if proved to be lying. Which has never been proved.
A harrowing trial followed for a 21 year old woman. For both Julie and her family. Julie not retracting a word of her 'ring of truth' WS and having to answer questions on an unrelated 1984 joint minor cheque book fraud.
Bamber had already tried to sell his life story and distasteful pictures of Sheila to the Sun. And drove a hard bargain with the NOTW. Complaining to his lawyers about his fee.
The NOTW approached Julie after getting inside knowledge that Bamber was guilty. Julie accepted their offer.
Bamber was hoping to make money from the massacre of his family. Julie accepted an offer regarding a massacre of people she was not related to. Having nothing to do with the massacre on the night.
Even 30 years later people post all sorts of nasty things about Julie. Jeremy's OS has a whole chapter on her & the campaign team posted an 8 minute Youtube video on her in 2014. One of several distasteful videos about her.
Julie has kept a dignified silence after the NOTW interview. Refusing to get drawn into a war of words with Bamber. Preferring to focus on her family and successful teaching career. Even Wilkes couldn't get her to speak.
Did Julie deserve £25,000 ?
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JM gives her account here:
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=288.msg4966#msg4966
I don't think its really a case of if she deserved it but if NoW should have offered it? They could have said we will donate 25k to a charity of your choosing. Note the solicitor went to the highest bidder. No doubt he/she was on some sort of % rather than a fixed fee?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chequebook_journalism
As you will see it even went on with the Moors murders.
If financial compensation is offered to buy a story off of a key prosecution witness based on the outcome of a trial then surely the whole thing is always going to have a certain whiff about it? Even if the actual signing of contracts is post trial the fact that these things can be discussed pre trial and verbal agreements given can't be right surely?
I don't see JM as a reliable prosecution witness at all based on her contradictory WS's of 8th Aug and 8th/9th Sept. What, if any, influence the NoW deal had on her testimony at trial I wouldn't like to say.
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If the papers wanted to pay that to her to get her story then so be it. It is a matter of what they are willing to pay not whether the pay is deserved.
Some think she deserved more for the crappy story they published. As long as they were going to make her look so bad she might as well have gotten all she could.
In hidsight she would have much preferred a different publication where she had more control over how they went about it even though that would have meant less money. But her lawyer went for the most money.
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No...she should never have been allowed to benefit from the murders. This is one of the few areas that I agree with the blue forum. Julie was a drug dealer and a thief.