We can all agree that the investigation was a complete shambles from the beginning but the inquest recorded it as murder-suicide and Taff was convinced that it was. No one (except the relatives) would have batted an eyelid if JB had inherited the lot and sailed off to quickly spend it all on cocaine and Bollinger and neither would there have been two inquiries into the EP that they invited on themselves by changing course and exposing their own bungling but the fact is, they were lead eventually by the evidence.
If they had treated JB as a possible suspect from the beginning as they would today, the case would have long faded in the memory.
I can't agree that MF was not up to the job, he had 13 years experience and could draw on any other published expert opinion to back up his own. He was honest enough to say that the phenomenon of back spatter was not fully understood at that time - he didn't mean not fully understood by just himself but by anyone in the field at that time. Do you really think he went to the Old Bailey armed with only his own opinion and hunches ( and not just on the back spatter) ?
I'll have a look at Dr Di Maio in a bit but I can't see how a JFK style reconstruction would have helped, we know roughly where the killer was in WHF as evidenced by the casings etc, it tells us nothing about who the killer was, just as if there had been two people in the book depository in Dallas, all we would know is roughly where the bullets came from.
Excellent, CS — I always enjoy your intelligent, well thought-out posts. They make such sense.
I might add, though, that the case didn’t go to the Old Bailey — it was tried at Colchester Crown Court (or Chelmsford, one or the other)
I read somewhere that Jeremy Bamber was somewhat upset about that. He expected someone as grand as himself to be tried at the highest criminal court in the land😤
I guess he was imagining the public queuing for hours to get a seat in the public gallery so he could show them his “good side” which he he thought he had. Off topic, I know, but both his biological parents’ had extremely large somewhat hooked noses, Im wondering if he had his altered at some stage? He was and is incredibly vain..
Because he isn’t normal being a psychopath it doesn’t occur to him when he has his annual mugshot taken in prison, that it looks odd to pose, sometimes smile, and stand with his chest puffed out 😌
Actually, I think the last mugshot he posted of himself was some years back. Wonder why? Has he gone bald does anyone know? Or been binging on cakes and whacked on a few stone? The journalist who visited him a few years back said Jeremy looked much older than his years, had drooping jowls, and a grey complexion. Bet he misses his sunbeds.🤨
