The Tragedy of little Nicolas and Daniel
Thank you Andrea for the response,
It is a very interesting question about the twins. Let's be honest, this is an area that even in my worse nightmare I would not want to think about. The murder of adults, as heinous and despicable as it is, we can at least process the information and look at it with an analytical frame of mind. However the cold-blooded murder of two beautiful, defenseless children is quite another matter. These two innocents are akin to the tale of the 'Two Princes in the Tower'. Ironically both murdered by their evil uncle (Richard III). Both murdered because they were in the way of a psychopath's lust for money and power.
'It is time to stiffen the sinew and summon-up the blood' as Shakespeare would say. The twins I believe were murdered next to last. That horrible distinction belongs to Sheila. I have several reasons for believing this to be the case. Firstly the physical layout of the farmhouse upper floor meant that in order for Bamber to kill them first he would have had to creep past the door of both his parents bedroom and that of Sheila. June, has by all accounts highly acute hearing. She was super-sensitive to noise of any kind and was often in the habit of asking her husband to go and investigate noises that she had heard during the night. Bamber must have known this.
Secondly, Bamber knew that there would be no way out for the twins should they awake and panic. The stairs was their only exit, and even if they did manage to get past him, where would they go? all the door were securely bolted, beyond their reach. In short, Bamber did noit need to control the twins in the same way as the others, Nevil in particular was the greatest threat to thwarting his evil plan. The 6ft 4" physically-fit farmer was a present and very real barrier to Bambers twisted machinations. This is why I believe Bamber shot Nevil first, in the master bedroom upon entering- he wanted to eliminate the greatest threat. After the fight in the kitchen Bamber went back upstairs and was shocked to find June still alive. He coldly shot her between the eyes, killing her instantly. It was at this point that Bamber literally crept into the twins' bedroom. (This was later sub-consciously re-enacted by Bamber when Ann Eaton asked Bamber to walk around the house with her after the murders. She states that when Bamber came to the door of the twins bedroom, 'he went in very silent and crept in like a cat') There is something Freudian about Bamber's demenour that day. There were many such instances of him sub-consciously playing out what happened that night, such as Bamber returning to the farm a few weeks after the murders and gaining access by slipping the catch on the kitchen window and climbing through. Incredibly, the very window he was accused of climbing through the night of the murders. He later claimed he climbed through it in order to access to 'retrieve some documents because he has forgotten his keys'
The twins thankfully did not wake. They were shot while they slept. 5 shots into the back of the head of little Nicholas and three into the back of the head of little Daniel. Nicholas still had his thumb in his mouth when his body was discovered. This was indeed somewhat of an overkill that has been played on by Bamber supporters. I beg to differ. I believe that Bamber shot them numerous times because he simply wasnt sure that they were dead.
It also highlights the fact that there was, without doubt, a silencer fitted to the rifle. The whole house would have been alerted had it not. Sheila would probably have been woken from her stupor and little Daniel would almost certainly have been startled when the shot were fired at his brother (who slept immediately next to him in an adjacent bed) This further add weight to the theiry that Bamber almost certainly used a silencer when commiting the murders. He later wiped the silencer down with one of Sheila's tampons and replaced it in the gun cupboard. His biggest mistake and one that finally got him caught.
If there could be anything more tragic than ther loss of a mother, a doting grandmother and grandfather, it was the loss of these twin boys. Heartlessly Bamber had brutally snuffed out the lives of the two little boys who had earlier been excited to see their 'Uncle Jem'.
If anyone needs any further reason to keep this psychopathic, twisted animal incarcerated for the rest of his life, I would urge them to look no further than what he did to these innocent little boys to enhance his own lifestyle.
