It seems to me that we have two entirely different stories going on here. We have the version given us by EP. I'm perfectly certain that the case is now used as a training exercise in "How Not To Run An Investigation". I feel certain that, as a force, they're probably a little embarrassed by it, albeit, they got their man..................in the end.
However, I am convinced, that much may have been done by those seeking to exonerate Jeremy, to exaggerate what occurred by showing them in as bad a light as possible. It leaves us with a choice. We accept -warts and all- what the police tell us occurred, OR we dismiss it and accept what those who are pro Jeremy tell us 'REALLY' occurred...............but before we take their version as the definitive one, perhaps we should have a close look at their possible agenda. Just how many of them lend their full support to police in general -there are more than a few who seem to think they could have done a better job- how many of them would be prepared to stand up and admit we probably have the finest police force in the world? How many of them take pleasure in "getting one over" when it comes to their dealings with police? It's very possible that such persons, whilst probably being the first to demand that "police should do something" will be doing their best to make it as difficult for them as they can. Their versions of events, all designed to make police look incompetent, are certainly likely to be very different from versions given us by police....................
.............To whit!! We're led to believe that there was more corruption, within that small unit of EP engaged in the investigation at WHF, than in the rest of the force in England, and America, it seems, don't know nuttin' when it comes to corruption...................and it all begins with a couple of 'numpties' operating in different buildings, one a civilian, deciding to withhold information just in case it was decided to prosecute Jeremy at a later date -THIS of course, has to presupposes that they already knew Jeremy and what was going to be the outcome of the incident he called about. Moving on, we have a group of 'incompetents' gathered outside the farmhouse, allegedly not knowing what to do. It matters not that their information is that there's a mentally insane woman, a paranoid schizophrenic, in there, recently released from a psych unit, brandishing a weapon that she's fully conversant with, along with her children and her parents, who'd allegedly been threatening to take them away from her. Never mind any of that, they SHOULD have gone in. To hell with the potential consequences.................which had been covered because this mad woman had allegedly had the forethought to call 999 and ask for ambulances!!! Enter -and quickly exit- another incompetent in a hurry to get to his game of golf. Then, we're told, comes the alcoholic doctor. How do we know he's an alcoholic? A Jeremy supporter once smelled alcohol on his breath, AND he carried a hip flask!!! To add to his failures, he only diagnosed Sheila as having A gunshot wound -this, later being translated into a whole OTHER story!!!- never mind that he didn't diagnose any of the victims with more than A gunshot wound. Still, at least the case seemed cut and dried. Thanks to Jeremy, they had the whole history and background of Sheila's mental illness and two hospitalizations. It was clearly a case of murders/suicide.
Enter the family. We're told, grasping, greedy, jealous, determined to do Jeremy out of his birthright. Their biggest crime? to have an alleged Freemason in their midst. We're encouraged to believe that every crime ever committed has Freemasonery at it's heart. We're further encouraged to believe that this family took it upon themselves to manipulate evidence of Sheila as the culprit -not that there had ever been any to start with which wasn't staged- towards Jeremy, and to aid and abet them in this, somehow, so we're encouraged to believe, EP manage to persuade professionals into corruption by getting them to falsify just about everything they handle which is to do with the case. Then, of course, we have the alleged intervention of Drugs Squad and Special Branch, who are there to protect Jeremy -from the drug pushers that his girl friend was allegedly one of, albeit, they were supplied by Jeremy- because of his alleged biological 'father'. One can begin to see how such ludicrousy -lunacy?- if believed, can convince one of police incompetency and corruption.
This all seems to be sucked up, unquestioningly, by Jeremy supporters, who will grab at any straw which might lead to Jeremy's freedom. They only need to hear it said that evidence exists and they're taken in, hook, line and sinker. They seem incapable of seeing the consequences of any of these fictions being fact. Everything which points to police having been corrupt, to them, appears to be further proof of Jeremy's innocence.
Not for a moment am I suggesting that corruption doesn't exist within organizations. However, I don't believe it exists to the extent that everyone connected to a case -other than the accused- is guilty of it, which is what we're being asked to believe.