The significance of the bible found by Sheila's body and the significance of where the bible was left open???
Why has the owner of the fingerprints on the bible found by
Sheila NEVER been disclosed???
What possible reason could there be to WITHOLD this evidence
Sheila Caffell was found with an open Bible by her side. The pages were covered in bloodied fingerprints. Document's show the bible was tested and forensics were positive for prints, but the owner of the prints was never disclosed. Could this be because they were the bloodied fingerprints of Sheila Caffell?
Her Bible was found by her side, open at pages containing Psalms 51-55. Eminent theologian Susan Gillingham has prepared a report on the significance of these psalms, in relation to Sheila's mental state and religious mania. She says anyone who knew the psalms well would turn to them as a means of "expressing their own penitence at the evil within themselves and outrage at the evil words and actions performed against them by others".
Astonishingly, the bloodstained Bible was never produced at trial, despite repeated requests from Bamber's solicitor. So the jury was not aware of the significance of the psalms.
Photographs also showed a handwritten note sticking up from between the pages of the Bible. The words at the top of the note are "love one another" – the same words were written on a banner on a wall in a room in Jonestown, Guyana, where 909 people died in 1978 in a mass murder-suicide. But the evidential value of what was inside the Bible cannot now be gauged; Essex police have informed Bamber's lawyers that the note has been destroyed.
Hugh Ferguson, Sheila's psychiatrist, gave evidence at the trial. In a statement made in 2002, he says he was unaware that the Bible was open at the psalms at the time he gave evidence.
Having read them, he says, "they contain in them the themes which, over time, I knew were exercising Sheila Caffell. In short form, the struggle between good and evil, or God and the Devil."
Important Factors That Could Have Affected Sheila's State Of Mind The Day Of The Murders
Nor was Ferguson, or the jury, aware of another factor that may have influenced Sheila to carry out the killings.
At the trial, Bamber said his sister was upset at the prospect of losing her children,
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but the prosecution accused him of making this up.
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Last week, the Guardian was passed a letter, written by Sheila's ex-husband, Colin Caffell, to Nevill Bamber. In it, Caffell expresses deep concern about Sheila's mental state and asks his father-in law-to "try and convince Sheila that it would be better for her and the boys if they stayed with me most of the time".
Ferguson says if Nevill had pleaded Caffell's case to Sheila, it could have had a "potentially catastrophic effect on her".
As a result, he says, "she may have projected on to her father a concept of evil".