A young free spirited 24 year old recently returned from a back packing trip around Oz & NZ, would be happy to off load the responsibility onto the more mature older members of the family.
How was he to know there was a risk of evidence being planted against him.
Of course. I was commenting from the starting-point of assuming that Jeremy is guilty and I was asking why a guilty person would grant that concession. It could be arrogance or a miscalculation, but it does seem odd. Surely a rational calculation would be that the risk of suspicion arising from a missing silencer is much easier to deal with than the risk of an incriminating silencer being found?
Furthermore, if Jeremy was supposed to have put the silencer back, then logically we must assume he cleaned it, but by the family's own admission, it wasn't clean.
The whole thing simply doesn't make sense.
Also why would Neville contact Jeremy and not simply phone 999 if the situation was serious ?
Maybe it was because Neville didn't deem it serious.
Jeremy couldn't be bothered dealing with another issue involving his sister, so just phones the local Police Station.
[In bold] I've never understood the fuss people make about that part of Jeremy's story. The ITV drama made a lot out of it in the courtroom scene of Jeremy's cross-examination. To me, it's a total non-point, for two reasons:
First, if Jeremy is telling the truth and Nevill did ring him, it needn't have been an emergency at that point.
Second, there are a number of sound reasons why Nevill would have been reluctant to bring official attention on a gun-related incident involving Sheila (obviously on the caveat that she wasn't harming anybody at a given point). Anybody who has looked into the case in some depth will know what those reasons are. If Sheila was just waving the gun around but had not yet actually harmed anybody, ringing Jeremy does not seem an unreasonable thing to do.
A related point is that people ask why Nevill would not just take the gun off her. I went into that question on another thread. For reasons I won't go into, I know a thing or two about this sort of thing.
I explained that taking a loaded gun off somebody weaker and smaller than you is not necessarily as simple as it sounds. The closest analogy I can offer you is, if you are a man, think back - assuming this applies to you - to a time you had a fight with another man who was shorter than you. It's quite hard. Sheila may have been running around with the gun, and Nevill may have called Jeremy as a way of distracting Sheila from the children upstairs or as a way of encouraging her to give up (not appreciating that bringing Jeremy into it could aggravate her and make things worse), etc., etc.