I think some people should see a reconstructions to help them envisage how very easy it is to disarm someone who’s holding a rifle.
Everyone knows Jeremy Bamber is guilty of murdering all his family, and he was rightly convicted.
But for those few who think it’s possible Sheila could have murdered them all they should consider this:
Firstly, Sheila was on medication to control her MH condition, which caused her to shake, tremble, walk stiffly, feel tired, listless, weak and had difficulty focussing and coordinating. Sheila was heavily tranquillised, and had never been violent to anyone in her life, nor threatened suicide.
Some people suggest Sheila had a psychotic episode, but psychotic episodes don’t make people violent. That’s a fallacy. When someone has an acute psychotic episode they lose touch with reality, become depressed, may hear voices, neglect their appearance, and studies prove that when someone is having one they almost never hurt themselves or others.
However, had Sheila woken in the early hours and felt unwell, or had some kind of panic attack, or feelings of disturbance — she wouldn’t have gently crept across the landing, searched for a gun — or “conveniently” noticed a gun just laying there, loaded — then crept upstairs to fire bullets into June and Nevill. She’d have been shouting like a maniac, screaming crazy things, and causing total mayhem is shed suddenly gone berserk — which wouldn’t have been a psychotic attack, anyway.
That did not happen. Had it, Nevill and June would have both run out their bedroom to see what was wrong.
But suppose Sheila DID quietly creep into their room, then started firing the gun...
The only person shot in that room was June, and as there was no blood of Nevill’s on the bed or bedroom carpet, that proves he’d jumped up before being shot.
Nevill was 6”4”, extremely fit from all the hard physical work he did on the farm, and in very good health. He was also ex-RAF and an experienced marksman. He was both physically and mentally strong.
As he wasn’t shot ONCE in the bedroom, that means Nevill could have, and would have, disarmed the “berserk, stumbling Sheila” who had NO experience of guns, who was weak, tiny in comparison to him, and unable to even walk properly, let alone focus, think, or put up a struggle.
Nevill could have disarmed Sheila SO easily, within two seconds as this video proves:
https://www.full30.com/watch/MDEyNjQ1/how-to-disarm-an-active-shooter---rifle-techniquesIt’s ludicrous to think she was capable of committing these heinous crimes: besides being incapable she had no motive
It’s obvious that as Jeremy Bamber was a fit younger man, who craved their deaths, after shooting June first (by aiming wrong) he managed to fire four shots into Nevill on the landing by standing some way back from him as Nevill tried to come after him. Jeremy either stood at the end of the hallway in order to shoot Nevill, or he ran downstairs first and shot Nevill in the face and arm as Nevill made his way down from the top of the stairs to try and disarm Jeremy, knowing the cartridge was now empty.
https://www.full30.com/watch/MDEyNjQ1/how-to-disarm-an-active-shooter---rifle-techniquesAnd that’s how Jeremy managed to shoot them all...Sheila couldn’t possibly have done all that. nor would she have.
