Supporters are welcome to make their own thread, but they are all valid points. Like I said, on their own, maybe not but when accumulated there are just too many points on which you end up making excuses. Having been a supporter, I found myself doing that once too often.
I don't know if Bamber used the opportunity to dispose of evidence but even if he didn't the action exposes a cold and callous individual - and no, it doesn't make him a killer, just the kind of person who might be.
Just because Bamber hated his mother enough to kill her in the cruellest manner doesn't mean she was a bad person but in my opinion it makes him evil beyond redemption.
Sometimes I think that murder victims very often become dehumanised and are treated with less than respect particularly when we pore over crime scene photos or diagrams exposing their vulnerability.
Just as we invade their humanity, privacy and lost dignity as we inspect every aspect of their lives and put our own prejudices and interpretation on them.
A reminder that June Bamber and her family were living, breathing human beings was brought home to me when I read ... "Jean offered them June’s collection of commemorative biscuit tins,"
I found that so poignant.
We've all got our little collections of memoirs which mean nothing to any but ourselves; we know when we bought them and where ~ we know who gave them to us and the occasion when they did.
June's collection of biscuit tins which had probably been consigned to a cupboard anyway serves as a reminder of a life which was cruelly destroyed.
Just because ...
