In November 1986 after the
trial of Jeremy Bamber the trial Judge Mr Justice Drake ordered an
enquiry into the conduct of Esssex Police. The investigation was
directed by the Chief Constable, Mr Robert Bunyard. The review was
conducted by Detective Chief Superintendent Dickinson of Essex Police
assisted by DI Storey.
This investigation consisted
of interviews with Police officers and witnesses but no statements
were taken although statements and other material submissions from
pre-trial were used during the enquiry. It was also noted that the
papers available did not include any written records of the original
senior investigating officer DCI Thomas Jones who died in a tragic
accident at his home on 11th
May 1986.
The Dickinson report was an
account which relied heavily on the accounts of Jeremy Bamber’s
relatives and in particular his uncle Robert Boutflour. The final
report does not accurately reflect events which were uncovered by
Dickinson and Storey. It is only post 2002 appeal that extensive
handwritten accounts of interviews have been disclosed to the
defence.
Missing from the Defence
copies were the interviews of Julie Mugford and her mother Mary
Mugford. In addition to this many of the senior police officer’s
interviews are also missing. Overall the review inaccurately drew on
accounts which contradict the original statements of witnesses and
even contradicted court testimony. It also presented Jeremy Bamber in
a biased way using the accounts of Julie Mugford and Robert Boutflour
to provide a complete character assassination of Jeremy presented as
a money hungry sexual predator who was also engaged in “unsavoury
homosexual activities”.
At the end of the report DCI
Dickinson concluded that the most senior investigating officer had
not visited the scene until after the bodies had been disturbed. He
also found that owing to a "shortage of resources," senior
officers DCI Jones, DI Cook and DI Montgomery had failed to request
that a pathologist
and ballistics expert attend the scene with the bodies in situ.
Recommendations were made pertaining to these points and also
included issues of training and force communication with other police
sources.
DCI Dickinson would have us
believe that Jeremy Bamber was so sophisticated that he managed to
fool a large number of senior and junior police officers at the scene
and later a pathologist and ballistics expert. We put it that it is
highly unlikely and improbable that experienced police officers
attending such a tragic scene would have ignored key evidence if they
had not been 100% convinced that Sheila Caffell had killed the
family.
In 2002 the appeal court
judges placed little significance on any of the Dickinson report
referred to by the Defence including the issue of inheritance an area
which has developed further in light of evidence disclosed since the
2002 appeal which brings into question the credibility of key
prosecution witnesses in particular that of Robert Boutflour.
Read further on the 2002 Appeal:
http://www.jeremy-bamber.co.uk/blood-2002-appeal
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