Opium Poppies Grown at WHF?

[scipio_usmc]

The first licences don't seem to have been issued until 2002 which is some 17 years after Dr Craig spotted what he thought were opium poppies in a field.   &%+((£

CAL Page 179:

"He [JB] was carrying a small bunch of opium poppies when Dr Craig caught up with him.  Explaining that the farm had a special licence to grow them for the pharmaceutical industry..."

So after police raided the house and found everyone dead he went to pick some opium poppies?  To do what with them?  Maybe he told Craig they were Opium poppies to be an ass.  Maybe he intended to pick them to stick near the bodies then thought the better of it.  It makes little sense to pick Opium poppies with police right there and what would he pick them for anyway?  What would he do with them at that moment? Maybe someone should write to him and ask him.

[Holly Goodhead]

So after police raided the house and found everyone dead he went to pick some opium poppies?  To do what with them?  Maybe he told Craig they were Opium poppies to be an ass.  Maybe he intended to pick them to stick near the bodies then thought the better of it.  It makes little sense to pick Opium poppies with police right there and what would he pick them for anyway?  What would he do with them at that moment? Maybe someone should write to him and ask him.

"Dr Craig felt Jeremy was 'grief stricken' and suffering 'emotional shock'".

[Myster]

Maybe someone should write to him and ask him.

Poppy Miller maybe?

http://poppymeze.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/email-to-panorama-jeremy-bamber.html

[Holly Goodhead]

If it's true it could be a reason NB was reluctant to call/involve the police at WHF.

[Holly Goodhead]

Poppy Miller maybe?

http://poppymeze.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/email-to-panorama-jeremy-bamber.html

Who do we think reads the forum apart from a few people here and on Blue with a rather embarrassing hobby 

[scipio_usmc]

If it's true it could be a reason NB was reluctant to call/involve the police at WHF.

He was growing a small amount of opium poppies illegally and feared if police were called to WHF to deal with a cray lady with a gun they would instead go look in all the fields?

[APRIL]

Poppy Miller maybe?

http://poppymeze.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/email-to-panorama-jeremy-bamber.html

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[APRIL]

If it's true it could be a reason NB was reluctant to call/involve the police at WHF.

Might not police have been privy to such information?

[Holly Goodhead]

He was growing a small amount of opium poppies illegally and feared if police were called to WHF to deal with a cray lady with a gun they would instead go look in all the fields?

We don't know if it was a small amount.  It's not clear from Chief Sup Harris' WS the extent of the poppies or if there were other hidden fields. 

[APRIL]

In a small area in a field on the right hand side of Pages Lane 1.4 mile beyond the farmhouse there was what Craig thought to be opium plants. Surely that means far less than an acre. It makes zero sense to grow so little. What would be tested by growing a few plants?

In the meantime who would they sell to?  A program was created in 2002 to sell to pharmaceutical companies so obviously no program existed prior for such. A license to grow a small amount for schools?  hey could buy a small amount from anywhere they would not need to pay local growers.

I doubt it was heroin poppy and even if it were it would not mean a thing so why are we even discussing it?

Scipio, DEAR!!!! I/WE aren't saying that anything IS one way or another. Just throwing ideas into the mix. I understand that in American terms growing tiny amounts wouldn't be viable but we don't have the space that you do so what we do will be on a much smaller scale.

[Holly Goodhead]

Might not police have been privy to such information?

Yes if it was legal but as I said it doesn't appear the UK Gov issued licences until 2002.  On this basis I doubt the police were aware unless there was something very dodgy going on.

[puglove]

So after police raided the house and found everyone dead he went to pick some opium poppies?  To do what with them?  Maybe he told Craig they were Opium poppies to be an ass.  Maybe he intended to pick them to stick near the bodies then thought the better of it.  It makes little sense to pick Opium poppies with police right there and what would he pick them for anyway?  What would he do with them at that moment? Maybe someone should write to him and ask him.

It was a weird, inappropriate diversionary tactic because Bamber is a psychopath.


 %£&)**#

[Holly Goodhead]

In a small area in a field on the right hand side of Pages Lane 1.4 mile beyond the farmhouse there was what Craig thought to be opium plants. Surely that means far less than an acre. It makes zero sense to grow so little. What would be tested by growing a few plants?

In the meantime who would they sell to?  A program was created in 2002 to sell to pharmaceutical companies so obviously no program existed prior for such. A license to grow a small amount for schools?  hey could buy a small amount from anywhere they would not need to pay local growers.

I doubt it was heroin poppy and even if it were it would not mean a thing so why are we even discussing it?

Why would they grow a small amount for schools?  If this was the case they would surely still need a licence or special permission?

[Myster]

Tell you what... let's just say they were common or field poppies grown for wreaths, decorations and dropping onto the audience at the Albert Hall on Remembrance Day.

And let this thread R.I.P.

[Holly Goodhead]

Tell you what... let's just say they were common or field poppies grown for wreaths, decorations and dropping onto the audience at the Albert Hall on Remembrance Day.

And let this thread R.I.P.

Lol your dsoh seems to have worked!

It's either as puglove said a seriously sick comment from JB or something worthy of further investigation  &%+((£

People do grieve in different ways but I think I would struggle with making a joke about opium poppies upon learning ones nearest and dearest have died.