Was Shiela Caffell ever tested for personality disorders?
She seemed from the little I have read to be a cogent contender for these murders
There seems to be no clear definitive proof Bamber did it...dont jump on me, its just a matter of facts
Proof seems to be three-fold
1) Petty-criminal proven liar girlfriend who had been jilted and stood to benefit to the tune of a £25k newspaper deal only if he was found guilty retrospectively said he'd told her he had done it. It took her a month to mention this and only then because he dumped her. Even identifying the children's bodies in the morgue didn't trigger feelings of revulsion towards him. In the process she also claimed he had hired a mercenary to do the job - a local plumber who had once worked in Libya who fortunately had a cast-iron alibi because he was cheating on his wife and the people who lived with the lover saw him, otherwise he'd have been in jail for 30 years right now too.
2) Gun moderator found by relatives who inherited the estate after his guilty conviction after the police had already searched for evidence in the very place they found it. If he had inherited the estate he would own half of their farm. Tiny speck of blood on it was alleged to be Sheila's but the lab used the entire speck in one test so it didn't even have the second confirmatory test, let alone a set of others it should have had and it was only the same blood group as Sheila. The moderator was handled by at least 3 relatives, who had cleaned up the property so had access to Sheila's blood, put in a plastic bag, transported to another house then handled by several police officers before being out in a fridge at the police station with other samples including items with blood. At a later appeal the moderator was tested by forensics and had no blood on it. There then turned out to be more than one moderator anyhow.
3) the issue of whether Bamber's father had phoned him. When it was considered to be a suicide no-ones evidence conflicted with his statement that he had called the police first and then his girlfriend, but when they decided it was murder suddenly the policeman who wrote down the time of the call changed his statement to say that on a digital clock he had got a 2 and a 5 mixed up, and the girlfriend who previously said she was too sleepy to pay much attention to the call remembered looking at the time and her flatmate who was woken by the call suddenly remembered she kept her clock 10 minutes fast (a whole month after the murders the police went to her flat and found this was the case: hmm!), all of which meant apparently meant Bamber boasted to his girlfriend before calling the police having fabricated the call from his father. It's worth noting that the girlfriend and her flatmate both had charges relating to selling cannabis dropped in return for giving evidence. The girlfriend had just done a teaching degree and would not have been allowed to work in schools with a drugs conviction.
No forensic evidence linking him and he asked the housekeeper and relatives to clean up and sort out the house.
