Bamber tries to sell nude pictures of Sheila to The Sun newspaper

[Joanne]

I've thought about this and though what I'd do in this position.
My first though would be anger/upset, why is my beautiful sisiter dead and want to rip them up or set fire to them.
My next thought was to keep them but cut them up but keep the 'head' bits, it's not really very right to keep nude pictures of your sister, I suppose you could keep them in a box or something just so you know you've got them.
Then I thought about photoshopping them somehow and put clothes on them but that wasn't available then.
To sell them make my stomach churn. Not only has he made his siter out to be a mentally deranged killer, now he wants to sell pictures of her with nothing on. This man gets sicker and then some.

[Dillon]

Very perceptive Joanne. However much his apologists attempt to rationalise his behaviour these are the actions of a very deranged and sick personality.

[only me]

I've thought about this and though what I'd do in this position.
My first though would be anger/upset, why is my beautiful sisiter dead and want to rip them up or set fire to them.
My next thought was to keep them but cut them up but keep the 'head' bits, it's not really very right to keep nude pictures of your sister, I suppose you could keep them in a box or something just so you know you've got them.
Then I thought about photoshopping them somehow and put clothes on them but that wasn't available then.
To sell them make my stomach churn. Not only has he made his siter out to be a mentally deranged killer, now he wants to sell pictures of her with nothing on. This man gets sicker and then some.

Absolutely.  I think most people, in that situation, would very likely get rid of them. 

I've known situations where people have cleaned an entire house before calling paramedics when they've found a relative dead through suicide, because they don't want them to turn up and think their relative is slovenly.  They're desperate to preserve the memory of them as a good person.   

[John]

I've thought about this and though what I'd do in this position.
My first though would be anger/upset, why is my beautiful sisiter dead and want to rip them up or set fire to them.
My next thought was to keep them but cut them up but keep the 'head' bits, it's not really very right to keep nude pictures of your sister, I suppose you could keep them in a box or something just so you know you've got them.
Then I thought about photoshopping them somehow and put clothes on them but that wasn't available then.
To sell them make my stomach churn. Not only has he made his siter out to be a mentally deranged killer, now he wants to sell pictures of her with nothing on. This man gets sicker and then some.

You may not know this Joanne but something happened between Jeremy and Sheila when he was a teenager, something so terrible that Jeremy told Julie Mugford of the event but couldn't bring himself to divulge what it was.  Remember that Sheila was some years older than Jeremy and was parading him around her girlfriends at an impressionable age. 

[Joanne]

I can imagine Jeremy being a bit of a womanizer and I can imagine he could have had plenty of girfriends, he was good looking, had his own house, car and income, so he would be quite a catch but I get the impression he could be a bit of a git, probably having one girl in the front door while another leaves via the back. I hope this wasn't the case but I can't help feeling it'd be hard to resists for a young man.

[only me]

I've thought about this and though what I'd do in this position.
My first though would be anger/upset, why is my beautiful sisiter dead and want to rip them up or set fire to them.
My next thought was to keep them but cut them up but keep the 'head' bits, it's not really very right to keep nude pictures of your sister, I suppose you could keep them in a box or something just so you know you've got them.
Then I thought about photoshopping them somehow and put clothes on them but that wasn't available then.
To sell them make my stomach churn. Not only has he made his siter out to be a mentally deranged killer, now he wants to sell pictures of her with nothing on. This man gets sicker and then some.

You may not know this Joanne but something happened between Jeremy and Sheila when he was a teenager, something so terrible that Jeremy told Julie Mugford of the event but couldn't bring himself to divulge what it was.  Remember that Sheila was some years older than Jeremy and was parading him around her girlfriends at an impressionable age.

Do you believe that, John?  I think that's the kind of thing that a very manipulative person would tell someone to get the pity vote.  Saying that "something" happened, then leaving the other person to fill in the details in their head...

[John]

I've thought about this and though what I'd do in this position.
My first though would be anger/upset, why is my beautiful sisiter dead and want to rip them up or set fire to them.
My next thought was to keep them but cut them up but keep the 'head' bits, it's not really very right to keep nude pictures of your sister, I suppose you could keep them in a box or something just so you know you've got them.
Then I thought about photoshopping them somehow and put clothes on them but that wasn't available then.
To sell them make my stomach churn. Not only has he made his siter out to be a mentally deranged killer, now he wants to sell pictures of her with nothing on. This man gets sicker and then some.

You may not know this Joanne but something happened between Jeremy and Sheila when he was a teenager, something so terrible that Jeremy told Julie Mugford of the event but couldn't bring himself to divulge what it was.  Remember that Sheila was some years older than Jeremy and was parading him around her girlfriends at an impressionable age.

Do you believe that, John?  I think that's the kind of thing that a very manipulative person would tell someone to get the pity vote.  Saying that "something" happened, then leaving the other person to fill in the details in their head...

I'm just pointing out that it is her statement.   

[only me]

Gotcha.   

[John]

Gotcha.   

Gotcha back.   

[starryian]

A great thread. Many congratulations to Andrea on some sterling and very searching comments.
This aspect of the case is a strange one. It is quite damning for Bamber and his statements on how he related to his family. It shows Bamber at his callous and greedy best. This, I think next to the murders themselves really highlight what Jeremy Bamber was all about - selfishness, callousness and fathomless greed.
Thanks for highlighting this Andrea. It really puts into perspective the utter inhumanity that lay within this reptile of a man.   

[Tim Invictus]

Bamber's silence on this subject speaks volumes in my humble opinion. He has pissed and moaned and tried to sue all his relatives at evry turn. He has condemned the Police, CPS, CCRC, the trial and appeal court judges and yet never mentioned a word about The Sun article and his quite disgusting attempt to sell those photos.

You can be damn sure if that was untrue he would have screamed it from the rooftops! Sicko!

[Joanne]

What did happen to the pictures?

[only me]

What did happen to the pictures?

Well, that's a damn good question!  I seem to remember Colin Caffell ended up with them, but I might be making that up to be fair.  Anyone know for sure?

[abs]

What did happen to the pictures?

Well, that's a damn good question!  I seem to remember Colin Caffell ended up with them, but I might be making that up to be fair.  Anyone know for sure?

I have also heard that Colin got them - can´t be 100% sure though. I think he destroyed them.

[Myster]

What did happen to the pictures?

Well, that's a damn good question!  I seem to remember Colin Caffell ended up with them, but I might be making that up to be fair.  Anyone know for sure?

If you have Colin's book..., pages 93/94.

If you don't, in short Colin took most of of them from Sheila's flat, although Jeremy Bamber told him that the "famous ones" in her portfolio he held back at his Head Street house, Goldhanger.

Whether Colin got those back after Bamber's conviction, I've no idea.