In 2016 the morally duplicitous sister of Jill Dando’s killer, Michelle Diskin Bates had a blog published in support of mass murderer, child killer and rapist Jeremy Bamber.
Michelle Diskin Bates blog read in part;
It was well after midnight on August 6th 1985 and I couldn’t sleep. Switching on the T.V., I absent-mindedly tuned into a news channel. We were living in Co. Cork, in Southern Ireland, and I was joyfully awaiting the birth of our first child who was already overdue, making me feel restless; that was why I was up and about at such an hour.
Becoming aware of a breaking-news story I began to listen in more closely. A siege was taking place at a farmhouse in England. The broadcaster relayed that five people were inside and there was great fear for their safety. As the story unfolded it became apparent that this was an older couple. A farmer and retired Magistrate, Nevill Bamber and his wife, June; their daughter, Sheila, and her six year old twin sons. Jeremy, their son, was outside with police who were trying to communicate with someone inside the house who had been seen pacing back and forth in front of an upstairs window and carrying a firearm. The reporter said that police were reluctant to get too close to the house for fear of causing that person to become more agitated, thereby, escalating the danger to the family. I watched for an hour or so but there was no resolution and, heavily pregnant, I became exhausted and had to go off to bed.
Awaking early I was anxious for news, hopefully of a rescue, so I put the News on immediately. The siege was over, police had stormed the house and five bodies had been found inside. I was heartbroken, a whole family! My heart went out to the young man who had waited all night long with the police for news of his family; this was not what he wanted to hear.
My own child was born a few days later and I became engrossed in motherhood. It was a real shock to hear, sometime later, that the son, Jeremy Bamber, had been arrested for the killings…how was that possible when he was outside during the siege and everyone knew that?
Michelle Diskin Bates here
Night Time TV Did Not Exist In 1985
On the 6/7 August of 1985 Nevill and June Bamber were shot and killed inside their farmhouse at White House Farm along with their adopted daughter Sheila Caffell and Sheila (and Colin Caeffell’s) six-year-old twin sons, Daniel and Nicholas Caffell. All five family members were murdered by Jeremy Bamber, the adopted son of Nevill and June.
Dangerous psychopath Jeremy Bamber carried out his murders of his five family members the year before night time TV first began broadcasting;
Night Network, Night Time and Night Shift were names given to the overnight (usually between 12 and 6 am) schedule of the ITV network in the United Kingdom. The first ITV company began 24-hour broadcasting in 1986, with all of the companies broadcasting through the night by the end of 1988.
Night Network
A few years before Michelle Diskin Bates fantastical lies in her blog, which she obviously did to shill for yet another guilty killer, Mark Newby, Jeremy Bamber’s solicitor stated here;
Whilst I am no Bible basher it is worth that remembering that in Exodus 20:16 it was said:
“You shall not bear false testimony against your neighbor” (sic)
Mark Newby
Around four months ago (June 2022) Michelle Diskin Bates spoke to two of mass murderer, child killer, rapist and coercive controller Jeremy Bamber’s deluded supporters here stating;
Thank you Philip and thank you Yvonne for suggesting this might be a good idea. So I’m going to start off actually talking about Jeremy because I have a connection to what happened to Jeremy in that well let me just set the scene okay um so if I just start with it was a hot August night and it actually was the 7th of August 1985 and I was at home in Cork in Southern Ireland and my first baby was due right then
She actually eventually deigned to make her first appearance about ten days later. But I came down to watch TV because I couldn’t sleep. I had this big bump that wouldn’t stay still. While I was watching TV there was a newsflash and it said there was a siege in a farmhouse in then UK. And at that time people probably will remember or some people will remember that there old enough that we didn’t have 24 hour news TV at that time
Erm what I did see they had some aerial shots over the farmhouse and you could see in that actually the police and where they were in their sort of cordon which was back away from the house Erm I decided anyway that I would stay up for a while I was watching a bit of drivel on TV and every now and again there was an update on the news and I found that very interesting
Michelle Diskin Bates here
Did Michelle (11), Susan (8) & Barry George (6)Witness The ‘Shepherd Bush Massacre’?
Uncle Mike Burke stated in his book;
Sunday was a bore and I spent a lot of it walking around East Acton and Shepherds Bush.
I photographed the memorial at Wormwood Scrubs to the three policemen who were murdered there in August 1966.
Michelle, Susan and Barry were walking there on the day and Michelle saw the shot men lying on the ground and quickly got her brother and sister away.
She later told her mother how she saw the men lying there.
Excerpts by Mike Burke from Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Jill Dando Murder published June in 2011
Or Is This Yet Another Of Michelle Diskin Bates Fantastical Stories?
Of course Michelle Diskin Bates didn’t state that she saw the shot men lying on the ground, like her uncle Mike had stated in his book. Fantasist Michelle’s story had grown arms and legs by the time she wrote material for her book. Michelle claimed;
Friday the 12th August 1966 was a day I would never forget. I had charge of Susan and Barry for a typical outing to a local park. I had chosen to take us all to the adventure playground in East Acton, which was near Wormwood Scrubs Prison and Hammersmith Hospital. This was my favourite park. After a few hours of scrambling around on the monkey bars, I gathered up my motley crew and we set out for the long walk home, spurred on by the lure of a hearty dinner which Mum would have ready and waiting for us. More important, of course, was getting Susan back for her medication. If she went too long between doses she could well start to fit, and if that happened while we were out I would be all alone to deal with it, whilst in charge of six-year-old Barry as well. Braybrook Street ran along the edge of this common, colloquially referred to as ‘The Scrubs’. The road curved almost in an ‘L’ shape from the prison walls to the playground. As we trekked home across the short grass along the boundary with the road, me herding my little flock and trying to keep us all together, we were surprised to hear what sounded like a car backfiring.
By Michelle Diskin Bates from Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018
According to former metropolitan police officer Geoffrey Barton, who wrote and published a book on the case in 2017 (a year before Michelle Diskin Bates book was published), the shooting occurred at 3.15pm.
Excerpts from Geoffrey Barton’s book reads;
Friday 12 August 1966 was a hot and peaceful summer’s day. All was well with the world in Braybrook street in Shepherd’s Bush, west-London.
Just 13 days earlier and four miles down the road at the old Wembley Stadium, the entire population of the country had united to see the England soccer team beat West Germany 4-2 to win the World Cup, and the country was still basking in the reflected glory.
At around 3.15pm the silence was broken when Geoff Fox drove a Triumph 2000 saloon index number GGW 87C down the road with a couple of pals: Chris Head was in the front passenger seat and Dave Wombwell in the back. On their right they passed Wormwood Scrubs, the scrubland with all it’s football pitches, on the left they passed rows of 1930’s houses which made up the Old Oak Common Housing Estate. Many of these were occupied by the families of prison officers working at nearby Wormwood Scrubs prison, the high walls of which were 100 metres behind them.
Local residents later reported seeing the Triumph come up behind a Standard Vanguard estate car index number PGT 727, parked at the side of Braybrook Street, outside number 61, with three men inside. As the triumph stopped Head and Wombwell got out and walked over to the Standard and spoke to the driver through his car window. Suddenly, and without warning, the front seat passenger bent foreword, reached down deep into a hold-all at his feet and pulled out a German Luger pistol and shot Wombwell through his left eye, killing him instantly. Head ran back towards the triumph, but the gunman gave chase and aimed two shots at his back. The first shot missed, but the second hit him in the head, fatally wounding him.
Fox them attempted to drive away. Seeing this the passenger in the rear of the Standard got out and ran towards the Triumph as Fox struggled to turn it round. Snatching a .38 Webly service revolver from the hold-all, he shot Fox three times. As Fox died, his foot his the accelerator and he drove over the dying body of his pal, Chris Head. The two gunmen then raced back to the standard and the driver, unable to deal with seeing the bodies lying in the road, reversed off at speed, but not before his vehicle registration number had been taken down by a witness. Two minutes afterwards the silence had been broken it was replaced by a deathly hush…
So What Happened?o
With the football pitches of Wormwood scrubs on one side, houses occupied in the middle of the day only by busy housewives on the other, and the only business in the area being the Old Oak Primary School, most of the witnesses were young children. Some of them ran home to tell their mothers.
This group of woman and children were stunned by what had just happened. They struggled to piece together the event from the information they had, and considered what they needed to do next. Mothers called their children and took them indoors where they would be safer, and calls were made via the 999 system to the information room at New Scotland Yard.
Excerpts by Geoffrey Barton from Harry Roberts and Foxtrot One-One: The Shepherd’s Bush Massacre
Michelle Diskin Bates goes on;
Rounding the bend, our ears were assaulted by the screaming of tyres squealing and spinning as a car sped past us, travelling in the direction we had come from. I grabbed Barry and Susan by the arm to stop them running towards the commotion and looked out into the road. There, amid the pandemonium of shouts and screams, I saw two men. One was lying on the tarmac and the other was hanging out of the driver’s door of a stationary car, facing us. There was blood spattered on the road; both men were blood-stained and both were very obviously dead. At the time, I didn’t realise there was a third body just out of my line of vision behind the car. At just eleven years old, I felt ill-equipped to know what to do, but then who would know? This was not Chicago in the 1930s, this was West London in the 1960s, and this definitely wasn’t an everyday experience. I must get Susan and Barry away from here, I thought. I don’t know what will happen if they realise this is real. What shall I do?
The hot August sun beat down as I started trying to guide my charges away from the terrible tableau before me. Susan wanted to investigate further, and I was scared the shock would bring on one of her seizures. How could I get this wilful eight-year-old to obey me? If she dug her heels in, I’d never shift her. Then inspiration struck . . . “We can’t go over there, Susan, they’re making a film and we’ll get in the way. They’ll be angry with us if we muck up their movie.” Reluctantly, they both complied and trudged home with me. My legs were leaden from shock and I struggled with awful thoughts of what might have happened if we’d rounded that bend a couple of moments earlier. “Mum! Mum! You won’t believe what we saw today,” I said, when the others were out of earshot. She didn’t . . . not until the news came on the TV later that evening. ‘News Flash: three policemen have been shot dead in West London.’ “Oh my goodness, you were telling the truth. Those poor men.”
Excerpts by Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018
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