Well bridget I think you are splitting hairs. I cannot see the comparison between a ley person stating that someone was a psychopath when highly qualified people had stated the opposite 27 times and a ley person stating that a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who had known psychotic episodes, who would be at risk of suicide because of the nature of her illness was probably capable of a psychotic episode in a house with guns and ammunition lying round and in such a situation may have killed the other people in the house. I wouldn't suppose Dr Fergusson would have envisaged such a scenario. However, no doctor could ever say in certain situations what anyone may or may not do.
I'm not splitting hairs at all, I'm simply pointing out that your summary only included those elements that support your stance and ignored the others. Of course a lay person is ill eqipped to judge, which is the point I'm making. This thread was started to attack starryian for doing exactly what people here do day in day out.
I'm not getting you at all on this one I'm afraid. Starryian takes it upon himself to wax lyrical about Jeremy's psychopathy without any evidence whatsoever, other than an excerpt from the Wilkes book relayed to this forum by Vic, which was then seized upon by ex members of this forum, such as Shona / Andrea etc. Now I'm not downplaying the Wilkes book... but that anecdote is hardly the same as what has now become known about Sheila caffell, re her mental health.
Nothing more has become known about Sheila's mental health - she's dead, it's all just theories. Of course she might have had a psychotic episode etc., that was hardly a ground breaking discovery in the world of scizophrenic research even in 1985, but there's no evidence that she did.
I haven't read Wilkes book yet, what excerpt?