Now You See Me...

MURDER SCENE: You don't see me here...

SOMEBODY'S KITCHEN: Now you do...

Time for a bit of visual wizardry this afternoon (no, not a “trick of the light” – I’m keeping my powder dry on that bad boy for a while!) and something that will blow your mind.

Okay so picture the scene if you will. Jeremy Bamber, we are told, has battled with his father in a life-and-death struggle in the kitchen of White House Farm. What we are led to believe is that they fought over the murder weapon, attached to which was a sound moderator. During this struggle, said moderator is scraped against the surround of the kitchen Aga – you know, cos the paint that scraped off was found inside moderator about four million years later and that’s how we knew Jeremy was the killer. Sound reasonable? Sound air-tight? Fully factual and cast iron?  Hmm.

We essentially have two sets of photographs – one set of photographs taken of the murder scene, and one taken about a month later.

STOP – TIME FOR A QUICK GUESSING GAME!

QUESTION: Guess in which set of photos the scratches to the Aga surround were found?

Yep – well done boys and girls. The additional damage is not present in the photos of the crime scene – but it is indeed present when photos were taken weeks later, by which time Hercule Poirot, Jessica Fletcher and their troops had decided that Jeremy was a guilty man.

QUESTION: Guess which set of photos would help send an innocent man to jail for life?

Well done again you clever shrews. Jeremy Bamber was jailed – seemingly – on the evidence relating to the moderator which included the paint from the Aga surround. A man, jailed, with the help of photos taken a month after a crime was committed, despite the fact that pictures of the actual murder scene differ.

What I don’t understand, is how? Surely the most crucial pictures and the ones to which we should pay most attention are those of the actual murder scene – quite literally, it was the scene of the murder (as the name would suggest) – a month later it was, cruelly, just somebody’s kitchen. Yet somehow the evidence was accepted as mere fact.

But this isn’t just me waffling. The photos are there to be seen now, and photos don’t lie.  A leading photographic expert has painstakingly reviewed the two sets of photos and is convinced that the scratches that helped to convict Bamber were never there in the first set taken – meaning they were made afterward (obviously).

I’m afraid you don’t need to be Poirot or Fletcher to figure this bit out: Jeremy is innocent, and was jailed on fabricated evidence.