April didn’t say anything in her ‘ hybristophilia‘ post about Bamber using people?
I said he uses people, Nicholas, but that’s obvious going by all what people have written about him
I’ve seen some of the letters he’s written to women where he’s clearly manipulative, and trips himself up too. In one letter to a woman ( forgotten who now) he started off apologising for not writing sooner & wasted a whole page explaining why he hadn’t (overcompensating to make it sound truthful). At the end of the letter he said something which proved the first page was a total lie...
I read he brags how many letters he gets from women each week, and I bet he puts them in different piles, something like:
A) Reply quickly/tread carefully — smart woman
B) Reply within 2 weeks — test her out and dig
C) Reply whenever; a possible idiot
D) Possibly reply
E) Reply in desperation: lives in a council flat/rough area/on DSS
What I’m wondering is why he’s never seemed to talk about romance or sex? If he has, no-one’s ever mentioned it. Without sounding sexist, almost all men crave sex, and I’d be most surprised if out of all these women he hasn’t been attracted to one and gently led her into sex talk; asking her for provocative photos etc...nearly all men on the internet (even total strangers) will tell you you’re beautiful and how they’d love to meet you. I’m no fool — I know they tell all women that, probably. But all JB seems to talk about is HIMSELF. The few letters I’ve seen he never asks them anything...it’s all him, him, him.
I don’t know how true the rumours are that he’s gay or bisexual, but it is possible he’s had relationships in prison, especially after 35 years. Maybe he’s no longer attracted to women? He certainly finds it easy to drop them with no regard at all.
My hunch is that the one woman he did truly desire was Sue Ford, and I wonder if part of that was that she was older than him and he was searching for a mother figure. His biological mother had “rejected” him in his mind, but we don’t know how heartbroken she was at possibly being forced to give him up. Then June took over and never showed either children real affection, so maybe that’s why he was subconsciously looking for a mother figure.
Whatever the circumstances, you can’t create a psychopath — so whatever his upbringing & with whom, he’d still be a psychopath and there’s no denying he’s thoroughly evil.