Yes the case is officially dead in it's tracks now. Bamber is a complete lost cause for his supporters. To get referred back to the court of appeal needs fresh evidence; not the re-hashed and recycled garbage of his last attempt that the CCRC saw through very quickly, but real, fresh evidence. To my mind this is all, but impossible. He will indeed spend the rest of his life behind bars. However, that won't put his supporters off trying and espousing more bovine excrement in their quest to have him released. I think there comes a time when people must realise it's all over and simply admit defeat, or at least shelve it - all except these kind of people. For whatever reason their delusions run very deep. Many times I have attempted to engage them in a sensible, logical and questioning dialogue, only to be fobbed off with the standard "I just don't feel Jeremy could have done it" and then insist on seeing hard evidence that points to his guilt. Not realising the hypocrisy between the two statements and feel smug and comforted when they insist on seeing hard evidence they know full well does not exist. This has been and always will be a strong cirumstantial case. This makes them extremely uncomfortable. They want eye-witness statements, DNA matches, blood evidence, fingerprint evidence in a case where the killer was extremely devious and left very little in the way of hard physical evidence and covered his tracks with diabolical cunning. Moreover, the shoddy investigation left the proverbial floodgate open for them to conjure-up all manner of crackpot and often ludicrous theories to justify their beliefs. Then we have the fact that Bamber himself is a highly charistmatic, attractive and manipulative individual that will readily banish someone from his life if they have nothing to offer him or are no longer of any use to him, despite the fact that the supporter has often campaigned very hard and given up so much for him.
This certainly is not the first time this has happened. There are many psychopathic murderers that have seen the merits in manipulating well-meaning people into supporting them from their prison cell and drive them into getting them released, with promises they will never keep.
These murderers usually have a common thread - their utter inability to take responsibility for their actions. They continue the lie until people start to take notice. They play on their vulnerabilities - on their sympathy especially. The 'hard done by' routine. Bamber exploits this very well as a whole plethora of sickening sentimental youtube videos will testify. It is a well-used routine by these people. They know it can be very effective.
I do have much sympathy for these supporters. They devote so much of their own time to try to overturn a conviction in what they see as a miscarriage of justice, when in reality it is nothing of the sort.
We have all discussed the pro and cons of the case in-depth and quite comprehensively and ariived at the conclusion that the man is clearly guilty. Now that his appeals have virtually been exhausted and his whole sham attempt at trying to trick well-meaning people into believing he is innocent has run it's course, we can confine this case to where it belonged when he was first convicted in October of 1986 - to history.
