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Was Jeremy Bamber innocent?

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Yappy12 · 03/12/2019 08:04

Have been interested in this case for years and am uneasy about his 10-2 majority conviction of murdering his parents, sister and 2 nephews. ITV 6 part drama-doc starting 6th Jan. Lots of stuff doesn't add up. He and a cop supposedly saw someone moving about inside hours after everyone was supposedly dead. Was that the sister and did she go crazy and kill them all? Not saying he's innocent but just saying I don't think he was guilty beyond reasonable doubt. There's said to be proof now of the second phone call, from his home at 3.37am. First had been allegedly by his father to him at 3.26 saying the sister had a gun and was going mad. He couldn't have got home, 3.5 miles away, after killing them all in 11 minutes.

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sashh · 30/11/2022 05:39

I with Matthew Steeples on this.

There are serious flaws in the evidence, but that doesn't mean he is innocent, but there should be an investigation and possibly a retrial.

I think JB was asshole but I don't know whether that makes you a murderer.

Lycanthropology · 30/11/2022 10:37

Lanneederniere · 29/11/2022 10:12

Great points here. I have never understood why the unpleasant, grasping Boutflours were not properly investigated, given the enormous amount of money and property they gained after 'finding' the silencer which the police had apparently missed ... strong and high-level connections often account for omissions of this nature by the police.

I searched the podcasts mentioned on this strand. I've downloaded the red-handed one, but the Thinking Sideways one describes the case as "still unsolved" WTF? Someone was convicted of this 30+ years ago, that is very much NOT unsolved.
JB and his followers have made a pretty good job of promoting this atrocity as a great unsolved mystery. It's not.

BTW, The "They Walk Among Us" podcast has a good three parter on this case.

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