The Real Jeremy Bamber

[G-Unit]

Sheila was just 16 in 1973.

I can’t think of anything more boring at that age to be driven to your older cousin’s — one who’s possibly domineering, fussy & particular — and being shown how to chop vegetables, iron linen, fold napkins and use a feather duster.

Sixteen-year-olds are interested in listen to music, practicing make-up, laughing with their friends, and reading about their pop idol...

Which just demonstrates how out of tune with the changing world June was.

[ISpyWithMyEye]

Which just demonstrates how out of tune with the changing world June was.

I agree with you on that one

[Vertigo Swirl]

Which just demonstrates how out of tune with the changing world June was.

Mothers and daughters often come into conflict over what mothers perceive to be good for their girls, so what?

[G-Unit]

Mothers and daughters often come into conflict over what mothers perceive to be good for their girls, so what?

Even so, not many mothers would call their daughter 'the Devil's child'.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Even so, not many mothers would call their daughter 'the Devil's child'.

I’ve called my daughter that on several occasions (albeit in jest of course).

[G-Unit]

I’ve called my daughter that on several occasions (albeit in jest of course).

June wasn't joking.

[APRIL]

I’ve called my daughter that on several occasions (albeit in jest of course).

But both you and your daughter were confident in knowing who her parentage. Try to imagine how she might have felt if, already feeling unworthy and bought up in a "fire and brimstone" household, she'd had that accusation levied at her. At the very least, it would have been destabilising, I think.

[Vertigo Swirl]

June wasn't joking.

And your point is?

[Vertigo Swirl]

But both you and your daughter were confident in knowing who her parentage. Try to imagine how she might have felt if, already feeling unworthy and bought up in a "fire and brimstone" household, she'd had that accusation levied at her. At the very least, it would have been destabilising, I think.

No doubt, but what has that got to do with the murders, or “The Real Jeremy Bamber”?

[The General]

No doubt, but what has that got to do with the murders, or “The Real Jeremy Bamber”?

Well it lends credence to the whole 'Sheila ran amok' angle, albeit tenuously. Add to that the farming out (no pun intended) to boarding school at a young age; there's grounds for the genesis of a grudge.

[barrier]

Well it lends credence to the whole 'Sheila ran amok' angle, albeit tenuously. Add to that the farming out (no pun intended) to boarding school at a young age; there's grounds for the genesis of a grudge.

There are claims JB suffered at boarding school,just as much a genesis of  a grudge there.

[The General]

There are claims JB suffered at boarding school,just as much a genesis of  a grudge there.

Indeed. I'm not suggesting Sheila did it by the way, I'm concurring with the general assertion - I see some merit in the concept.
It's equally true of JB, agreed.

[G-Unit]

But both you and your daughter were confident in knowing who her parentage. Try to imagine how she might have felt if, already feeling unworthy and bought up in a "fire and brimstone" household, she'd had that accusation levied at her. At the very least, it would have been destabilising, I think.

To quote Dr Ferguson, Sheila would come to hang her psychosis on those words. [Interview with CAL 2013]

[APRIL]

Well it lends credence to the whole 'Sheila ran amok' angle, albeit tenuously. Add to that the farming out (no pun intended) to boarding school at a young age; there's grounds for the genesis of a grudge.

It might, were it not for, I suspect, Sheila growing up with the feeling, impressed on her by an all powerful matriarchal figure in her life, of being bad and worthless, and as a result, helpless, probably manifesting itself in mental illness, whilst Jeremy, who hadn't been demoralized by such, may have grown up with a sense of entitlement and sought to revenge himself on those he saw as having tried to put him down, or withholding from him what he felt to be rightfully his.

[mrswah]

Which just demonstrates how out of tune with the changing world June was.

Interesting that June, herself, didn't teach Sheila domestic skills. I wonder why.

Do we know that Sheila was unhappy being taught by Ann?  Possibly she preferred being with her older cousin to being with her mother.