Hi I spy, just recieved Carol ANN Lee booK WHF,
As i am new to case i quickly looked at the References and on page 369 it espouses that
at 15 years old Helen Grimster was the youngest witness to take the stand and she
recounted her conversation with Sheila which she had at WHF in 1985
Gosh, you’ve got through the book quickly...
There’s contradictions about whether Helen took the stand — some sources say she did, whilst Jeremy Bamber’s team say she didn’t...but JB’s campaign team do lie, so you can’t believe anything they say
Whatever, whether Helen did take the stand or not, the defence didn’t get from her what they set out to achieve, did they?
I don’t believe for a second that Sheila was smoking cannabis inside the house: she’d have been terrified to. In fact, Nevill had found some of the cannabis Jeremy bought in Amsterdam long before he killed them all, and had kept it in his safe with a note.
Helen never said Sheila was smoking cannabis; she said she was chain-smoking cigarettes. Nor did Sheila say she was suicidal.
The defence would have inferred that, obviously...that’s their job — to get criminals off the hook by casting doubts in the jury’s minds. But because the evidence against Jeremy Bamber was so, so, so overwhelming it was clear he was guilty from the outset.
Incidentally, it’s very telling that the only witnesses Jeremy had to say his relationship with Nevill seemed OK were mere acquaintances who barely knew them...
Jeremy didn’t have ONE person testify on his behalf or give a character reference for him. Not ONE of his few associates who were close to him and knew him well agreed to testify for him. Brett Collins, Sue Ford, Michael Deckers, Rodney Brown, Virginia Grieves — they all refused to help him....
Speaks volumes....
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