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david1819

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Rivlin QC told the jury: "The prosecution said Miss Mugford would have had to have had a convoluted mind to have made all this up. We say that she has."That Matthew (Mac-Donald) story is not only wrong in itself, but contains in it a number of details which can be proved to be untrue and which she can only have got from the police or Ann Eaton"

Why was he allowed to tell this to the Jury? here's why

Jeremy's "confession"

Below is what Julie claims Jeremy confessed to her. This statement is false for two reasons. Jeremy's alleged confession of the crime as told by Julie Mugford does not correspond or coincide with the actual crime scene itself, as we all know Shelia was found on the floor not on the bed, the bible next to her also on the floor not on her chest. Had Jeremy committed the murders and given a detailed confession as Julie claims then Julies statements would corroborate the crime scene and they don't!



The second reason Julies statement is false is because her description of Jeremy's alleged confession is exactly the same as Ann Eaton and RWB's impression of events as seen in Ann Eatons notes and RWB's diary written in August. See below

Ann Eaton's note's second line down "Shelia on bed bible on chest"

RWB's Diary


So not only can we establish that Julies claims are false we can now narrow down were she actually got that information from. Either Police or Ann Eaton as Rivlin rightly told the jury.


More disturbing correlations


Windows and the Bike

In August RWB speculates that Jeremy used a bike then also in august RWB and AE speculate how Jeremy would enter the building 





Then come September the 8th Julie reveals how Jeremy "confessed" to her his method of travel and entry, exactly how RWB and AE predicted!


The Wet suit

On the 28th of August Robert Boutflour speculates that Jeremy used a wet suit in the murders


This then appears in Julie Mugford's diary along with the bicycle


The £2000.00 payment

2nd of September RWB claims Jeremy lent a friend £2000



Julie then claims that Jeremy paid Macdonald £2000




The Fingerprints and the gun magazine


In August Robert Boutflour speculates that Jeremy got Shelia to load the bullets into the magazine to get her fingerprints on them.



Then come September lo and behold Julie claims this is exactly what Jeremy had confessed to her.



This is why Julies statements are completely false, Her statements have direct parallels with Ann Eaton notes and RWBs diary both of which deviate from the facts of the crime scene and contradicts other factual aspects surrounding the case. Therefore Jeremy did not and could not have confessed or told her anything that is in her statements, it is impossible!

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Offline Holly Goodhead

Thanks for putting this together David.  It takes a lot of effort and time to hunt out all the docs. 

I think the relatives influenced the police and the police influenced JM with the police acting as hub for communications. 

Just my opinion of course but Jeremy Bamber is innocent and a couple from UK, unknown to T9, abducted Madeleine McCann - motive unknown.  Was J J murdered as a result of identifying as a goth?

david1819

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Thanks for putting this together David.  It takes a lot of effort and time to hunt out all the docs. 

I think the relatives influenced the police and the police influenced JM with the police acting as hub for communications.

I dismissed Julie's credibility from the beginning and rightly so. It only takes simple forensic linguistics to establish that her claims are false and where she really got the information from.

How people are still buying her words 30 years later to this day is astonishing

Offline Holly Goodhead

I dismissed Julie's credibility from the beginning and rightly so. It only takes simple forensic linguistics to establish that her claims are false and where she really got the information from.

How people are still buying her words 30 years later to this day is astonishing

Yes I agree but unlike some I see her as a victim.  There's no evidence she received any legal representation during her interviews.  She was only just 21 yoa.  During JB's police interviews he was told SC could not have shot herself twice; not true according to the pathologist.  If EP relayed similar to JM along with the relatives and CC believing JB was responsible I would imagine this amounted to a lot of pressure.  Of course she must have been traumatized by the whole thing too.  You surely don't put small boys to bed and read them a bedtime story one day (which she did the Sat before the tragedy) and then identify them less than a week later at a morgue and walk away unscathed unless you're some sort of psychopath. 

Many MoJ's from the 70's and 80's involved forced/false confessions as a result of the police subjecting witnesses/suspects to undue pressure and I've no doubt similar tactics were used with JM.

Just my opinion of course but Jeremy Bamber is innocent and a couple from UK, unknown to T9, abducted Madeleine McCann - motive unknown.  Was J J murdered as a result of identifying as a goth?

Offline scipio_usmc

I dismissed Julie's credibility from the beginning and rightly so. It only takes simple forensic linguistics to establish that her claims are false and where she really got the information from.

How people are still buying her words 30 years later to this day is astonishing

You dismiss her words because of your bias not because of any rational reason.

You completely ignored her most damning testimony.

The prosecution conceded that Jeremy lied to Julie after the murders about MacDonald carrying out the murders and the manner in which MacDonald did so.  Jeremy was being tried for murder as opposed to solicitation of murder because the prosecution was sure he carried out the murders himself. Some of the false information Jeremy fed Julie came from the press. The press erroneously reported several details. One detail he knew about regarding the glove coming off during the scuffle is something that was not reported and that only he knew about.

You have not provided any evidence at all that Julie obtained any information from Ann or RWB you simply decided that is the case because that is what you want to believe.  By your own admission you decided to not believe Julie and just are looking for a way to try to justify your actions.

While the nonsense you conjured up is good enough for you it objectively fails miserably.

The most damaging evidence from Julie was regarding his planning.  She detailed how he first considered burning them but then decided to shoot them. She detailed how he called her before the murders and said tonight is the night then immediately after the murders he called her saying he had not yet been to bed and basically telling her he carried out the murder plan. 

Because of your bias you choose to ignore such but this is the most damaging.  He called her before he called the police even but later lied saying he phoned her after police and this fact as well as the lie to try to conceal it are quite significant.

After the murders he decided to lie to her and say a hitman did it. Even if she wanted to falsely blame Jeremy she had no reason to make up the hitman story to blame him falsely all she had to do was claim he confessed to committing the murders.  She told police he told her few details. If she were going to lie she could simply have said he told her no details and just admitted he did it. This hitman story is the convoluted tale that the prosecution correctly said no sane person would make up. 

You have nothing to disprove Julie's claim that prior to the murders Jeremy said he was going to do a test run on a bike. That the family suspected he may have used a bike doesn't in any way prove that she conspired with the family. Sizable numbers of people talk about how using a bike would be better than a car RWB is hardly the only one to think of such.  You ignore why the family among others were so suspicious though.  Friends and family were all suspicious because he took June's bike.  It ad mud on it which the family believed was the same kind at WHF proving it had been ridden there. When confronted about having June's bike he lied saying she gave it to him for Julie to use. It is this that made people suspicious that he used such bike. You have no proof that Julie made up the account of him telling her he was considering using a bike you simply don't want to believe it because of your bias.

I pointed out previously with the press reporting 24 shots fired and Nevill shot 7 times Jeremy himself could have believed such.  The graze wound was not initially reported as a gunshot wound.  You don't have any proof that Jeremy knew he in fact shot him 8 times and thus would have told Julie it was actually 8.  I stressed how even on a range it is easy to lose count let alone in a situation like that. Yet because you don't want to believe the evidence you arbitrarily decided that he would have known he fired 8 and would have corrected the record to Julie.  You ignore that he likely didn't know and ignore other possibilities as well.  You ignored the possibility that he told her 7 on purpose just like he lied about the hitman on purpose.  You also ignore the possibility he said 8 but she didn't remember and remembered 7 falsely because that is what was reported. It is easy to get select details wrong.  Getting wrong that kept saying he wanted them dead though if he in fact didn't say such would not be easy it would have to be intentional.

You have not proven her testimony to be lies except in your own mind and others of the same mindset who are too biased to look at her testimony honestly will do the same.
 
That prevents you from understanding why her testimony was found to be credible by the jury and by a majority who know the details of this case.

You ignore the claims that were damaging in favor of the claims that she and the prosecution say were lies Jeremy told her because those lies he told are easy to prove false.  You say because these lies are false Julie must have made them up as opposed to her telling the truth about Jeremy telling her such lies.  You completely ignore that if she were going to lie she would not make up a hitman story let alone name a hitman she would simply say Jeremy confessed to committing the murders himself. You have not done anything to seriously undermine her testimony. 

Let's reveiw things:

A) Julie told a friend the story
B) The friend ran to police
C) Police sought to question Julie regarding what the friend said
D) Julie decided to come clean
E) At first police doubted her claims but came around to accepting them after a while

You have not come up with anything to establish Julie conspiring with the family let alone conspiring with them come up with a tale about a hitman.  You have not come up with anything to suggest conspiring with the family and her friend to trick police into questioning her. You have not come up with anything to suggest police coached her into making up the story.  No one except Jeremy had a motive to make up a hitman being involved. Neither the family, nor police, nor Julie would decide to make up a hitman if they wanted to get Jeremy they would tell Julie to say he confessed to committing the murders himself.  This is the most fundamental problem which the defense faced and you decided to completely ignore it instead of trying to find a way to attack it.  Mind you attacking it is what an advocate of Jeremy must do.  An objective person should not be trying to find a way to attack it but simply keep their eyes open in case something arises which could undermine it but not even advocates looking to attack this found any way. 

The best an advocate can make up is perhaps on September 8 Julie was scared that someone would come out of the woodwork who could give Jeremy an alibi so for the sake of safety decided to make up that a hitman did it.  Problem 1 is that in that case she would say he didn't tell her who the hitman was. Naming a hitman who can provide an alibi ruins the whole thing.  Worse yet, she knew for sure no one would be able to come out of the woodwork to alibi him.  So this fails miserably and that is why the defense did not suggest it the defense simply glossed over the problem like you did.  Glossing over problems do not make them go away though.

No Jeremy supporter who suggest Julie lied is able to come up with a plausible reason for Julie to make up a hitman story let alone for her to ID a false hitman thus enabling police to confirm the tale was false. They are unable to because it makes no sense for her to do so and the prosecution stressed such point without any competent counter coming from the defense.
“...there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”  Niccolò Machiavelli

david1819

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You dismiss her words because of your bias not because of any rational reason.

You completely ignored her most damning testimony.

The prosecution conceded that Jeremy lied to Julie after the murders about MacDonald carrying out the murders and the manner in which MacDonald did so.  Jeremy was being tried for murder as opposed to solicitation of murder because the prosecution was sure he carried out the murders himself. Some of the false information Jeremy fed Julie came from the press. The press erroneously reported several details. One detail he knew about regarding the glove coming off during the scuffle is something that was not reported and that only he knew about.

You have not provided any evidence at all that Julie obtained any information from Ann or RWB you simply decided that is the case because that is what you want to believe.  By your own admission you decided to not believe Julie and just are looking for a way to try to justify your actions.

While the nonsense you conjured up is good enough for you it objectively fails miserably.

The most damaging evidence from Julie was regarding his planning.  She detailed how he first considered burning them but then decided to shoot them. She detailed how he called her before the murders and said tonight is the night then immediately after the murders he called her saying he had not yet been to bed and basically telling her he carried out the murder plan. 

Because of your bias you choose to ignore such but this is the most damaging.  He called her before he called the police even but later lied saying he phoned her after police and this fact as well as the lie to try to conceal it are quite significant.

After the murders he decided to lie to her and say a hitman did it. Even if she wanted to falsely blame Jeremy she had no reason to make up the hitman story to blame him falsely all she had to do was claim he confessed to committing the murders.  She told police he told her few details. If she were going to lie she could simply have said he told her no details and just admitted he did it. This hitman story is the convoluted tale that the prosecution correctly said no sane person would make up. 

You have nothing to disprove Julie's claim that prior to the murders Jeremy said he was going to do a test run on a bike. That the family suspected he may have used a bike doesn't in any way prove that she conspired with the family. Sizable numbers of people talk about how using a bike would be better than a car RWB is hardly the only one to think of such.  You ignore why the family among others were so suspicious though.  Friends and family were all suspicious because he took June's bike.  It ad mud on it which the family believed was the same kind at WHF proving it had been ridden there. When confronted about having June's bike he lied saying she gave it to him for Julie to use. It is this that made people suspicious that he used such bike. You have no proof that Julie made up the account of him telling her he was considering using a bike you simply don't want to believe it because of your bias.

I pointed out previously with the press reporting 24 shots fired and Nevill shot 7 times Jeremy himself could have believed such.  The graze wound was not initially reported as a gunshot wound.  You don't have any proof that Jeremy knew he in fact shot him 8 times and thus would have told Julie it was actually 8.  I stressed how even on a range it is easy to lose count let alone in a situation like that. Yet because you don't want to believe the evidence you arbitrarily decided that he would have known he fired 8 and would have corrected the record to Julie.  You ignore that he likely didn't know and ignore other possibilities as well.  You ignored the possibility that he told her 7 on purpose just like he lied about the hitman on purpose.  You also ignore the possibility he said 8 but she didn't remember and remembered 7 falsely because that is what was reported. It is easy to get select details wrong.  Getting wrong that kept saying he wanted them dead though if he in fact didn't say such would not be easy it would have to be intentional.

You have not proven her testimony to be lies except in your own mind and others of the same mindset who are too biased to look at her testimony honestly will do the same.
 
That prevents you from understanding why her testimony was found to be credible by the jury and by a majority who know the details of this case.

You ignore the claims that were damaging in favor of the claims that she and the prosecution say were lies Jeremy told her because those lies he told are easy to prove false.  You say because these lies are false Julie must have made them up as opposed to her telling the truth about Jeremy telling her such lies.  You completely ignore that if she were going to lie she would not make up a hitman story let alone name a hitman she would simply say Jeremy confessed to committing the murders himself. You have not done anything to seriously undermine her testimony. 

Let's reveiw things:

A) Julie told a friend the story
B) The friend ran to police
C) Police sought to question Julie regarding what the friend said
D) Julie decided to come clean
E) At first police doubted her claims but came around to accepting them after a while

You have not come up with anything to establish Julie conspiring with the family let alone conspiring with them come up with a tale about a hitman.  You have not come up with anything to suggest conspiring with the family and her friend to trick police into questioning her. You have not come up with anything to suggest police coached her into making up the story.  No one except Jeremy had a motive to make up a hitman being involved. Neither the family, nor police, nor Julie would decide to make up a hitman if they wanted to get Jeremy they would tell Julie to say he confessed to committing the murders himself.  This is the most fundamental problem which the defense faced and you decided to completely ignore it instead of trying to find a way to attack it.  Mind you attacking it is what an advocate of Jeremy must do.  An objective person should not be trying to find a way to attack it but simply keep their eyes open in case something arises which could undermine it but not even advocates looking to attack this found any way. 

The best an advocate can make up is perhaps on September 8 Julie was scared that someone would come out of the woodwork who could give Jeremy an alibi so for the sake of safety decided to make up that a hitman did it.  Problem 1 is that in that case she would say he didn't tell her who the hitman was. Naming a hitman who can provide an alibi ruins the whole thing.  Worse yet, she knew for sure no one would be able to come out of the woodwork to alibi him.  So this fails miserably and that is why the defense did not suggest it the defense simply glossed over the problem like you did.  Glossing over problems do not make them go away though.

No Jeremy supporter who suggest Julie lied is able to come up with a plausible reason for Julie to make up a hitman story let alone for her to ID a false hitman thus enabling police to confirm the tale was false. They are unable to because it makes no sense for her to do so and the prosecution stressed such point without any competent counter coming from the defense.

Hahaha!  You naively thought I Just posted that quote from Rivlin QC claiming I "didn't understand evidence" didn't you? and how wrong you were.

Your now arguing that Jeremy fed her false information and that by an extraordinary coincidence its exactly the same as the false impressions Ann Eaton and Robert Boutflour had in August? How comical! and the fact you call me irrational just compounds the amusement. 

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Offline scipio_usmc

Hahaha!  You naively thought I Just posted that quote from Rivlin QC claiming I "didn't understand evidence" didn't you? and how wrong you were.

Your now arguing that Jeremy fed her false information and that by an extraordinary coincidence its exactly the same as the false impressions Ann Eaton and Robert Boutflour had in August? How comical! and the fact you call me irrational just compounds the amusement. 


It is not my fault you started at the outset revealing you decided not to believe Julie right off the bat.

It is not my fault the nonsense you resort to in order to try to justify calling Julie a liar falls flat.

Let's just look in more detail about the total lack of logic you applied so you can whine some more.

Boutflour wondered whether Jeremy planted Sheila's prints.  Is this something that no one else in the World would think of?  No! It's been done in real life and in movies/television from the 1940s to the present criminals have been shown sticking objects in the hands of dead people as well as unconscious people to plant prints. When something is shows in movies it is quite well known. Yet you want us to believe there is no way Jeremy could have worried about such.  You want us to believe Jeremy can't have worried about such and told Julie but rather RWB must have fed such to Julie and helped her to make up that Jeremy said such.

You ignore that there actually is some corroboration of her claim as well. June told Pam Boutflour that Jeremy had tried to teach Sheila to load the magazine. That clearly was an effort to get her prints on the weapon he had no reason to actually teach her. 

By September it seemed obvious there were no prints from Sheila found because they would have been reported if they had been found.  The family kept hounding police.  So if Julie had been in contact with the family and plotting with the she would have had no need to try to account for prints belonging to Sheila anyway. You have no evidence at all to suggest that Boutflour got Julie to make such up as opposed to Julie telling the truth about what Jeremy told her.

You have established no evidence at all that Julie got anything from the family let alone conspired with them to come up with her account.  You have no evidence of her interacting with them.  You just decided that because the family had OBVIOUS concerns and some of those concerns were later confirmed by her account that it means they must have spoken to her and gotten her to lie.  You have proved no connection merely your own bias.

Your supposed evidence proving Julie lied is not in the least bit convincing let alone conclusive.


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Offline adam

Julie would have taken a common sense approach on this issue. As anyone would. She would have simply looked at the disadvantages of approaching the police if Bamber was innocent. Although to be fair she would not have thought about it at all, if Bamber was innocent. 

Disadvantages of Julie trying to frame an innocent Bamber:


There was no evidence against Bamber. He was innocent.

She would be charged by the police. When caught lying.

Julie was being reckless and too spontaneous straight after splitting up with Bamber.  Women and men are much more calculated and patient if seeking revenge on someone.

Having a criminal record may effect her teaching career.

To make Bamber look bad, she had to implicate herself in the caravan break in. Effecting her teaching career ?

Her own 1984 crime may come to light. Effecting her teaching career ?

There was no financial reward in approaching the police.

It shows she was upset about splitting up with Bamber.

She would be on her own. No other witnesses could support her claims. Bamber was innocent.

Bamber would have the last laugh. When Julie was exposed.

She would have to follow through her approach. Right through to the ultimate (unlikely) conviction. Lying to the world.

It would show she was vindictive. Once exposed.

She may quickly wilt under pressure.  This is something she had never attempted before, and a massive long term lie. So why bother in the first place ?

It would show she had no sympathy for a grieving man. Once exposed.

It would show how upset she was that she was no longer with Bamber. Once exposed.

It would show she was stupid. Once exposed.

An approach may ultimately be time consuming. Depending on her success. Taking up months or years of her life. Effecting her second degree and teaching career.

It would be her word against Bamber's. For the last month the police had treated it as murder/suicide, which was correct as she knew he was innocent.

She will not know the details of the forensic evidence. It may show Sheila was the killer. Which would not be surprising as Bamber was innocent.

It would be bringing other people into this, such the deceased grieving relatives and her own friends and relatives.

She may feel bad after her initial approach. But is coming clean an option weeks or months down the line ?

She had already given a WS and gone around with Bamber for one month. The police will know she had approached them after she split with Bamber.

She was attempting to reverse a decision announced in the media, which the police were in public sticking to - murder/suicide. One month after the massacre.

Her approach may only last a few minutes. Experienced police officers may dismiss it, after all Bamber was innocent. Bamber may not even find out about Julie's attempt for revenge.

If an unsuccessful police approach  became news in the media, she would forever be looked upon as a heartless and lying woman. Friends and relatives may desert her.

There were no examples of anyone attempting something as extreme as this before, after apparently being so devaststed after apparently being jilted. Julie was a 20 year old going into the unknown. Alone.

Bamber may have an alibi. He was innocent.

Her decision to introduce and lie about a hit man would be exposed. Unless the hit man had no alibi.

Julie knew Bamber could be charming and convincing. And was innocent.

The only advantage of doing this, was that he ex boyfriend would spend his life in prison. As an innocent man.

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Offline adam

Can anyone imagine Julie (or anyone) thinking

'I am sad about splitting up with Jeremy. But i'm only 20 and will meet someone else.

He did upset me a bit for about 3 minutes.  I know what, I'll tell the police he murdered his mother, father, sister and 6 year old nephews'.
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david1819

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You constantly display you are little more than an immature biased child.  You accuse others of being liek that but it is you who are such you constantly project.

You have no ability to win on the merits so act like a spoiled child.

I have a more than adequate ability to debate you, its just that i seldom find you worth my time enganging you in debate, However since you have taken the time to try and
refute what i present, Its only fair i respond to each of your points accordingly and explain to you why you are wrong.

It is not my fault you started at the outset revealing you decided not to believe Julie right off the bat.

It is not my fault the nonsense you resort to in order to try to justify calling Julie a liar falls flat.

I never said anything was your fault, Infact having a sharp enough intuition to realise Julies claims are bogus from the beginning is a good thing, So if is your responcility thank you :)


Boutflour wondered whether Jeremy planted Sheila's prints.  Is this something that no one else in the World would think of?  No! It's been done in real life and in movies/television
from the 1940s to the present criminals have been shown sticking objects in the hands of dead people as well as unconscious people to plant prints. When something is shows in movies
it is quite well known. Yet you want us to believe there is no way Jeremy could have worried about such.  You want us to believe Jeremy can't have worried about such and told Julie
but rather RWB must have fed such to Julie and helped her to make up that Jeremy said such.

First of all you need to grapple with the fact Jeremys alleged confession deviates from the facts of crime, Thus you must assume he gave her false information. Now considering all the variables Jeremy could have fictionalised, it is remarkable that two fundental aspects of the crime he falsely gave Julie was exactly the same as the errornous account police gave Ann Eaton and Robert Boutflour. The probablity of this being coincidental is extremly low. Then we must assume that Jeremy took such carefull planning and precision for the crime only to then be foolish enough to tell the girl he was about to reject? and not only that he commits a perfect murder convincingly showing Shelia as the culprit only to then incriminate himself saying he hired a Hitman? Its sounds completely absured.

You ignore that there actually is some corroboration of her claim as well. June told Pam Boutflour that Jeremy had tried to teach Sheila to load the magazine.
That clearly was an effort to get her prints on the weapon he had no reason to actually teach her. 

I am glad you brought this up! Because using a bit of common sense and forensic linguistics one can establish this to be a complete fabrication made up by Robert Boutflour and i shall explain

This statement first appears on the 20th of September 1985, now read carefully Roberts diary entires on the 11th of August 1985.



As you righly pointed out he is wondering or speculating about Jeremy planting the prints, now had Pam actually told him this he would not need to speculate he would know this with certainty, not only that he would also mention Pam telling him such a thing and he does not! Not until the 20th of September. Even more damning June is dead and Pam is too ill to testify and soon passes away. Was it so unfortunatle that the only two witnesses to this alleged important conversation happen to be dead? or was this a deception using false claims from the dead who cannot refute what one is saying?  Make your own mind up
 

By September it seemed obvious there were no prints from Sheila found because they would have been reported if they had been found. 
The family kept hounding police.  So if Julie had been in contact with the family and plotting with the she would have had no need to
try to account for prints belonging to Sheila anyway. You have no evidence at all to suggest that Boutflour got Julie to make such up
as opposed to Julie telling the truth about what Jeremy told her.

Strangely enough there are reports of prints found on the bullets and the magazine, see below 



What happened to these reports? god only knows but during Jeremy's 2002 appeal hearings his Queens Council Michael Turner made a very good point

"Robert Boutflour claimed Jeremy had been trying to get Sheila to load the rifle in front of June and Pamela, but Pamela made no such reference of the incident in her statements. Jeremy denied ever doing this. It is now known  fingerprints were found on the bullet cases of the cartridges, but this was not disclosed. Whose fingerprints were these? One can only postulate that the police told Robert Boutflour the fingerprints were Sheila’s, and in an attempt to explain it, he made a statement of how Sheila’s fingerprints came to be on the bullet cases"


Let's reveiw things:

A) Julie told a friend the story
B) The friend ran to police
C) Police sought to question Julie regarding what the friend said
D) Julie decided to come clean
E) At first police doubted her claims but came around to accepting them after a while

Why on Earth are you still falling for this deplorable gambit made up by Essex Police?

Contrary to what was first told Julie did not come forward to the police on the 7th. As the Bank manager can prove he had her accounted for with her friend
and a police officer in the bank on the 4th several days before she "came forward".
The police orchestrated the situation with the bank as part of the deal with Julie Mugford for her evidence against Jeremy and in order to sanitise her character before the jury. 
They then covered up what had happened hiding it from the defence and the court.




You have established no evidence at all that Julie got anything from the family let alone conspired with them to come up with her account.
You have no evidence of her interacting with them.  You just decided that because the family had OBVIOUS concerns and some of those concerns were later confirmed by her account that it means they must have spoken to her and gotten her to lie.  You have proved no connection merely your own bias.

Your supposed evidence proving Julie lied is not in the least bit convincing let alone conclusive.

I have established the evidence, Just because it falls flat in YOUR OPINION that does not reflect the reality of the situation whether you know it or not.

For bursting your bubble and exposing it as nonsense you call me a douche. You think names bother me it just proves you can't refute what I wrote and displays your own immaturity.

I can refute what you wrote as you have just discovered for yourself. My fool abouts with calling you names or posting a guy laughting is fully justified due to the way you talk to others, also its partly
because I seldom bother to give you the time of day. If the day comes were you start opening your mind somewhat and stop being a brick wall to talk to i may decide to engage with more lenghly discussions with you.
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Offline John

Re: Why Rivlin QC rightly told the jury to dismiss Julie Mugfords testimony
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2016, 05:20:26 PM »
Let's keep replies civil and to the point please.

Julie made a thirty-something page statement if I recall and included details which could never have been invented.  Many of her claims were easily verifiable and when brought together resulted in a plausible and compelling document.  However, it is what is given in evidence before a jury which counts and Julie did not pull any punches.  The defence was unable to shake her such was  the confidence which she gave her evidence. That is in itself a major factor in determining truth from the lies.

Julie was a teaching student with her whole life and career in front of her, a career which has seen her rise to the highest echelons of the Canadian Education System..  I have no doubt whatsoever that DS Jones put the fear of God in her.  She had no choice but to spill the beans and spill them she did.  Inevitably, some of her evidence came from Bamber himself, the hitman story being part of it. It could be that Bamber told her this story as an insurance just in case she went to the police.  He thought her telling of this story would discredit her in their eyes and the eyes of a jury if it came to it.  He gambled but lost!

It was Rivlin's job to persuade the jury to disregard Julie's evidence but when push came to shove Bamber's arrogance came to the fore.  He couldn't help himself, the jury obviously found Julie's evidence compelling and Jeremy Bamber a liar.

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Offline scipio_usmc

Re: Why Rivlin QC rightly told the jury to dismiss Julie Mugfords testimony
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2016, 11:33:59 PM »
I have a more than adequate ability to debate you, its just that i seldom find you worth my time enganging you in debate, However since you have taken the time to try and
refute what i present, Its only fair i respond to each of your points accordingly and explain to you why you are wrong.

You have never proven me wrong about anything except in your dreams.


I never said anything was your fault, Infact having a sharp enough intuition to realise Julies claims are bogus from the beginning is a good thing, So if is your responcility thank you :)
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You have failed to prove Julie's claims to be bogus.  Julie's claims were regarding what she was told by Jeremy. The prosecution readily admitted that some of the stories Jeremy told to Julie were lies.  You need to prove that Jeremy didn't tell Julie what she claims he said.  You have no ability whatsoever to do that.  Your claims you proved such are patently false.

First of all you need to grapple with the fact Jeremys alleged confession deviates from the facts of crime, Thus you must assume he gave her false information. Now considering all the variables Jeremy could have fictionalised, it is remarkable that two fundental aspects of the crime he falsely gave Julie was exactly the same as the errornous account police gave Ann Eaton and Robert Boutflour. The probablity of this being coincidental is extremly low.

I already explained why you are completely wrong and you failed to address my points you simply repeated the same nonsense.

The press reported Nevill was shot 7 times. You incorrectly insist that Jeremy had to know he shot Nevill 8 times not 7 and that this press account was wrong.  It is possible Jeremy though he missed and even more likely that he didn't count how many shots he fired thus accepted whatever the press presented as the true number.  You keep insisting he had to know how many shots he fired though it is more likely he didn't count the shots and keep track. You just ignore reality and make up that he had to know for sure how many shots he fired.

It is less likely he knew the real number he fired but even if he did know there is a reason to keep it a secret.  Telling Julie a hitman did it was obviously some protection in case she ratted him out. Correcting the actual number of wounds would implicate him so just like lying about the hitman he could have chosen to lie about the number of shots.  It is also possible that he did tell her 8 shots but she didn't remember how many he said and she simply memorized the number reported in the press.  I alreayd mentioned all of these issues.  You simply ignore them and say he had to know how many he fired, he would have told her how many her fired and she would have remembered it so using the 7 shot figure reported int he press proves he didn't tell her anything.  It proves no such thing.  Your bias makes you say it proves such but objectively it fails miserably.

Just like he made up MacDonald carrying out the murders he made up the claim that Sheila got on the bed and shot herself under his orders. No one knows why he told these lies. Maybe he did it so that if she ratted him out then the police would see the details were untrue and dismiss them. You ignore that and simply say she lied and made it all up including the hitman though there is zero reason for her to do so.

You also ignore that Ann Eaton misunderstood what police told her and erroneously though that saying she was on the far side of the bed meant she was on the bed when in fact police meant on the floor on the far side of the bed. Worse still you ignore that when Julie spoke to police the family and her were aware at that point that Sheila had been shot on the floor not the bed.  If she was conspiring with the family to frame Jeremy she would not have said he told her Sheila was shot on the bed.  You completely ignore such because you never looked at the issue objectively.  you decided she lied and the family conspired with her despite no proof of such and simply make up nonsense to try to pretend this definitely happened despite no proof.

When Julie spoke to police she knew Sheila had been shot on the floor and that Jeremy had no alibi. If she were going to lie she would have said Jeremy confessed to killing her on the floor .  If setting out to lie she would not have ran with the erroneous bed claim and would have fingered Jeremy directly not finger a hitman let alone to name a hitman who would be able to clear himself in short order.

You fail to deal with this at all.  You also fail to deal with the most compelling part of her testimony. 


Then we must assume that Jeremy took such carefull planning and precision for the crime only to then be foolish enough to tell the girl he was about to reject? and not only that he commits a perfect murder convincingly showing Shelia as the culprit only to then incriminate himself saying he hired a Hitman? Its sounds completely absured.

Telling Julie was stupid but not absurd.  People confess to loved ones quite often but he did more than that.  He told her in advance and even called her right after.  Why would he call her period at 3AM let alone before police unless he had in fact involved her prior? 

If he was the genius you claim then making up the hitman story was one of his bright ideas to deal with Julie.  It served to enable him to ell her if she ratted him out then the hitman would come get her.  Furthermore, if she did rat him out the police would find the story false and simply dismiss her claims as untrue which is PRECISELY what you are doing.  Instead of being the brilliant man you think you are, you fell right into Jeremy's trap.

It was stupid to tell Julie about his plans but quite believable he would do such. It is not in the least bit absurd. lying to her afterwards to try to hedge his bets and protect himself is not absurd either but in fact if true would be intelligent.  What is totally absurd though is the notion she would make up a tale implicating him and during the course of such say he provided to her details she and the family knew at that time were untrue- like that Sheila had been shot on the bed- and to make up a hitman instead of saying he confessed to committing the murders himself and most absurd of all to name the hitman so he could clear himself and prove the whole story false.  That is beyond stupid and careless it is absurd.  The level of detail Julie provided was substantial including mentioning how he took sleeping pills she had given to him and he considered trying to use them to get everyone to stay asleep while the house burned but found them unsuitable for the task.  If she spent a great deal of time making up such details she would not ruin it by making up a hitman she would have said he confessed to carrying out the murders himself.

I am glad you brought this up! Because using a bit of common sense and forensic linguistics one can establish this to be a complete fabrication made up by Robert Boutflour and i shall explain

This statement first appears on the 20th of September 1985, now read carefully Roberts diary entires on the 11th of August 1985.



As you righly pointed out he is wondering or speculating about Jeremy planting the prints, now had Pam actually told him this he would not need to speculate he would know this with certainty, not only that he would also mention Pam telling him such a thing and he does not! Not until the 20th of September. Even more damning June is dead and Pam is too ill to testify and soon passes away. Was it so unfortunatle that the only two witnesses to this alleged important conversation happen to be dead? or was this a deception using false claims from the dead who cannot refute what one is saying?  Make your own mind up

Pam spoke to police about her phonecall with June and Sheila, she was not too ill to speak to them and deny the account.  You are too biased to approach this case rationally.  Boutflour wasn't smart enough figure out that the reason why Jeremy wanted to teach her to load it was because it was an effort to plant prints.  Like most he assumed such was so that people would believe she knew how to use it. I am the one who has pointed out that Jeremy was doing such to get her prints on it. It was far enough away for the murders that Boutflour failed to appreciate it.  Boutflour was unsure whether Sheila's prints were found or not but he SPECULATED that if they were found it would be because Jeremy had planted them.  He didn't believe that Sheila did anything and thus believed the only way for her prints to get on it would be from planting them.

His concerns are obvious ones you have not demonstrated at all that he got to Julie and got her to make up stories about Jeremy saying he had planted her prints on it but was unsure whether they had been wiped off.   Your thought process is entirely guided by bias. Indeed if you were thinking clearly then you would not suggest that family members who KNEW in mid August that Sheila had been shot on the floor pressed Julie to make up in September that Jeremy told her she was shot on the bed!  You don't think through your claims much.


Strangely enough there are reports of prints found on the bullets and the magazine, see below 



What happened to these reports? god only knows

That doesn't show the section where they detail the results. That lists what they tested. If you bothered to show the result portion you would find out they got 5 results on the rifle but ZILCH on the moderator and magazine. You fall for every lie Mike and the CT come out with.  how sad you are.  You fall for lies form them then ridiculously claim the police lied and I fell for it.  You operate totally backwards...

but during Jeremy's 2002 appeal hearings his Queens Council Michael Turner made a very good point

"Robert Boutflour claimed Jeremy had been trying to get Sheila to load the rifle in front of June and Pamela, but Pamela made no such reference of the incident in her statements. Jeremy denied ever doing this. It is now known  fingerprints were found on the bullet cases of the cartridges, but this was not disclosed. Whose fingerprints were these? One can only postulate that the police told Robert Boutflour the fingerprints were Sheila’s, and in an attempt to explain it, he made a statement of how Sheila’s fingerprints came to be on the bullet cases"

Why on Earth are you still falling for this deplorable gambit made up by Essex Police?

They asked Pam to give a statement about the phone call prior to the murders.  That was all they asked of her. That doesn't mean that Boutflour lied, indeed it would make no sense to lie since Pam could have refuted his claims. The claim that there were prints found on the casings is a lie.  That is why in discussing the prints the COA decision fails to mention any prints found on casings.  The one falling for lies is you not me.   

Contrary to what was first told Julie did not come forward to the police on the 7th. As the Bank manager can prove he had her accounted for with her friend
and a police officer in the bank on the 4th several days before she "came forward".
The police orchestrated the situation with the bank as part of the deal with Julie Mugford for her evidence against Jeremy and in order to sanitise her character before the jury. 
They then covered up what had happened hiding it from the defence and the court.




I have established the evidence, Just because it falls flat in YOUR OPINION that does not reflect the reality of the situation whether you know it or not.

I can refute what you wrote as you have just discovered for yourself. My fool abouts with calling you names or posting a guy laughting is fully justified due to the way you talk to others, also its partly
because I seldom bother to give you the time of day. If the day comes were you start opening your mind somewhat and stop being a brick wall to talk to i may decide to engage with more lenghly discussions with you.

Dovey's October 14, 1985 statement indicates that they went to see him On October 4, 1985.  That is nearly  a month after Julie met with police on September 7. His 2002 statement was rejected by the COA as containing faulty recollections because so many years had passed.

Police only knew about the fraud because Julie admitted to it during the course of ratting Jeremy out and had she not done so neither the police nor anyone else would have been able to raise the issue.

All you have done is expose your own biases you have failed miserably at establishing Julie lied about anything let alone establishing that police and the family conspired with Julie to have her lie.

You have fallen for Jeremy's lies and those of his supporters, you are the one who looks gullible not me.
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Offline scipio_usmc

Re: Why Rivlin QC rightly told the jury to dismiss Julie Mugfords testimony
« Reply #12 on: April 07, 2016, 05:36:44 PM »
Let's keep replies civil and to the point please.

Julie made a thirty-something page statement if I recall and included details which could never have been invented.  Many of her claims were easily verifiable and when brought together resulted in a plausible and compelling document.  However, it is what is given in evidence before a jury which counts and Julie did not pull any punches.  The defence was unable to shake her such was  the confidence which she gave her evidence. That is in itself a major factor in determining truth from the lies.

Julie was a teaching student with her whole life and career in front of her, a career which has seen her rise to the highest echelons of the Canadian Education System..  I have no doubt whatsoever that DS Jones put the fear of God in her.  She had no choice but to spill the beans and spill them she did.  Inevitably, some of her evidence came from Bamber himself, the hitman story being part of it. It could be that Bamber told her this story as an insurance just in case she went to the police.  He thought her telling of this story would discredit her in their eyes and the eyes of a jury if it came to it.  He gambled but lost!

It was Rivlin's job to persuade the jury to disregard Julie's evidence but when push came to shove Bamber's arrogance came to the fore.  He couldn't help himself, the jury obviously found Julie's evidence compelling and Jeremy Bamber a liar.

David doesn't know how to do that. He posts childish insulting cartoons when he lacks the ability to substantively challenge claims and evidence that refute things he wish were true and if not permitted to do such then he simply will hide and post on the safety of blue where his fellow Jeremy supporters will placate and protect him instead of challenging his claims.

He is so biased is it easy to see why he won't reveal his supposed new evidence that Jeremy is innocent.  He only will take it to die hard Jeremy supporters who won' view it in an objective manner.

By his own admission he said he decided to not believe Julie from the outset.  Instead of looking at all the issue in an objective manner he went by his gut opinion.  He knew that would look bad if he simply admits it is his gut opinion he still goes by so looks for reasons to justify his decision.  The only thing he could come up with is insisting that Julie conspired with the family and police to present false claims implicating him.  He has decided that is what happened despite not having any evidence.  So he has made up evidence that suffices in his mind but objectively fails miserably.

When people present an objective criticism of his claims he flips out. How he views the evidence in this case and an objective person views it are very different.  For instance, in another thread he insisted that Julie took her claims from RWB's diary even though it was written after she was questioned so that is quite impossible.

In this thread he ignores that the press erroneously reported Sheila had been shot in bed but at the time Julie came forward the family knew Sheila had been found on the floor and pretends that they still thought she was killed in bed and got Julie to falsely claim that Jeremy told her Sheila had been shot in bed. He ignores the press reported it and wants to pretend it had to come from the family because no one else thought that. Worse he ignores the family was told she was on the floor by mid August.  If Julie had made things up this would be evidence that tends to refute she wasn't conspiring with the family or police in making it up.

In this thread he also claims that Julie saying Jeremy told her Nevill was shot 7 times had to come from the family. Her full account is that there was a significant struggle where the killer blacked out for a minute but recovered to overcome Nevill and shot him 7 times. He totally ignores that this 7 shot figure was reported in the press and that is where not only she could have gotten it but Jeremy could have gotten it.  He ignores that Jeremy could have gotten it from the press or even could have told her 8 but she failed to remember this and the figure reported in the press stuck in her mind. Quite obviously she was not conspiring with police because if police were driving her statement they would have ensured all the details matched the crime to the letter.

Too that end he totally ignores that there was no reason for the family or police to prompt Julie to make up a hitman account and no reason for her to do so on her own.  The only one with a motive to do so is Jeremy. The hitman story served several purposes: 1) so Julie would not think he was as cold blooded as he actually was;  2) to threaten Julie that the hitman would get her if she talked and thus discourage her fro ratting him out; 3) if she did rat him out the police would find the account to be false and he would be in the clear because they would assume her accounts of him planning the murders were also false.

This is completely ignored and it pretended that there would be some reason for the other members of the conspiracy to get Julie to make up a hitman claim and even ID an innocent man as the hitman.  Naturally no reason is ever set forward and the issue not directly discussed because he can't come up with any reason why Julie or the others would want to make up a hitman.  Indeed, people out to blame Jeremy falsely would simply say he confessed to personally carrying out the murders.

Given how backwards David views everything in this case it is little wonder he is scared to publicly post his "breakthrough".  There is no doubt his breakthrough was come up with using the same biased goggles through which he looks at everything in this case and thus doesn't prove what he thinks.  He wants sycophants to review his evidence as opposed to people who would give honest objective review.

NGB is so ridiculous he stated he thinks it is possible Mike's claims are true about Sheila being shot in the kitchen and moved by police. He evoked such a strong reaction from Harters that he banned Harters for tearing into him so severely. Turning to someone like NGB for his opinion on the evidence is like asking a wolf if a chicken looks tasty. The way you test a theory is to have naysayers look at it and see if it can withstand them. If it can then you know you have something.

“...there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”  Niccolò Machiavelli

Offline adam

Re: Why Rivlin QC rightly told the jury to dismiss Julie Mugfords testimony
« Reply #13 on: April 07, 2016, 08:48:25 PM »
Is it correct that David is not allowed to annonce details of his alleged discovery ?

This is apparently because it would 'give the crown more time to prepare'. This is suggesting the CCRC are biased against Bamber.

It's doubtful the CCRC read forums. If this alleged discovery does make it into a CCRC application in 5 or 10 years time, they would still have months or weeks to look at it.

Mike is always making annoncements about new evidence which hasn't been included in previous appeals.

In the unlikely event that the alleged discovery is good and does eventually end up with Bamber, it is likely there will be a press anoncement. They were not slow in coming forward regarding Sheila's feet and Neville's call.
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Offline Admin

Re: Why Rivlin QC rightly told the jury to dismiss Julie Mugfords testimony
« Reply #14 on: April 07, 2016, 09:53:29 PM »
A red herring comes to mind.