A question for John, Dillon and Goatboy
If you were sitting on the jury for the WHF murders and you knew Julie Mugford had a deal to collect money for a story if Jeremy Bamber were found guilty would it have made a difference as to if you believed her testimony or not in view of her history of dishonesty and deception re the cheque fraud?
I do take the point that JB had a newspaper deal organised too but that would only been available to him if he had been found not guilty by the jury appointed
Julie decided to make the deal with the NOW even though she had carried out the cheque fraud, caravan robbery and allegedly known her boyfriend had committed the murders
Jeremy's deal would have been all about allegedly being wrongly convicted etc
Julie's deal was made knowing she was involved in covering up a major murder enquiry
If details of the NOW deal had been available how could the jury possibly know Julie's motives for her evidence against Jeremy?
The deal with the newspaper is something which we all have become used to with the News of the World, indeed it was expected not so many years ago. The fact that Julie had a deal for I think it was £25,000 while Jeremy wanted a similar deal for £40,000 would not have surprised me in the least had I been on that jury.
The deal would have had no input to my decision Jack, I would have listened to the evidence and taken it from there.
I agree the cheque fraud was silly and fraudulent Jack but students do many things in their youthful madness and when egged on by others. Do remember that Suzie was in on it with her.