Bamber said: “Although it’s hard to recall exactly what it felt like, what I do remember is that I never heard a word he [Mr Justice Drake] said – I recall the jury giving their verdicts by 10 – 2 majority and then being stunned as if hit by a 10-tonne truck.
“It was as if I’d been knocked unconscious yet still being awake, I just couldn’t believe it to be honest and in such circumstances, you go into shock, exactly the same reaction to being told I’d lost my whole family a year earlier – I didn’t believe that either when told by the police, and then the jury saying I was responsible was equally as unbelievable – so listening to what the judge had to say never featured.”
Lomax told Express.co.uk: “He [Bamber] was then taken down from the dock to the holding cells below.
“He told me that the officers who had accompanied him in the dock suddenly changed their demeanour.
“ Previously they had been reasonably friendly but as soon as he was convicted they began to give verbal abuse.