Matters of great significance came to a head during the back end of the first week in September 1985, when at long last the relatives learned the truth regarding how many times each victim had been shot - not once each, but Neville 8, June 7, Daniel 5, Nicholas 3, and Sheila twice!
From that point forward, the relatives changed their stance, now they put forward the suggestion that Sheila wasn't capable of loading around 15 additional bullets into the gun in order to carry out the killings! She had poor hand / eye co-ordination they argued. She wasn't capable of hurting her two young children, etc, etc, etc...
More to the point, upon learning that Sheila had in fact been shot twice, Ann Eaton and the relatives recalled how Stan Jones and Mick Clark had told them at Jeremy's cottage within an hour of them having viewed Sheila's and Junes bodies both laid on top of the bed, with the rifle on the bed in-between the bodies, and a Bible on top of Sheila's chest! More importantly that Sheila had only been shot once by the time Jones and Clark had visited the main bedroom at around 9.05am on that crucial first morning...
Armed with the knowledge that the relatives had been misled and deceived by the police regarding the total number of shots which had been fired, and the total number of shots each victim including Sheila had received the relatives sat down together and realised that Sheila had not killed herself and that Jeremy could not have shot Sheila dead by way of inflicting the second shot which effectively ended her life!
The relatives discussed the possibility of Sheila and Jeremy planning on killing the adoptive parents to get their hands on Neville and June Bambers estates! But when it boiled down to Sheila having had anything whatsoever to do with the killing of her own two children, the relatives could not bring themselves to believing such an awful thing...
It was around this time, that relatives found out about the contents of the timed police radio messages which were passed between the scene and police headquarters, about Sheila's and Neville Bambers bodies being found downstairs in the kitchen (7.35am, 7.37am, 7.38am, 7.42am and 7.45am), and that only three other bodies had been found upstairs by 8.10am..
All in all, the relatives had more than a strong suspicion that the police had something to do with the killing of Sheila, with Jeremy being behind killing the other four victims, intending to pin the blame on his sister (who he had planned to keep alive)...
This was in the mindset of the relatives by the beginning of September 1985 - either way, the relatives had got it into their heads that Jeremy should be barred as a beneficiary at all costs! Without any action on their part Jeremy might stand to inherit not only from Neville Bambers estate, and June Bambers estate, but also the estate of Mabel Speakman!
The plan was for an approach to be made to the ACC Peter Simpson by Robert Woodwis Boutflour, with the intent on trying to get the police on board to prosecute Jeremy as the killer, in return for the relatives keeping their silence regarding what they knew by that stage. In particular, that Sheila Caffell was not shot dead until after Stan Jones and Mick Clark had viewed Sheila's body laid out on the bed with a solitary non fatal neck wound, and they had left the scene, and gone straight to Jeremy's cottage to recount the then known facts - the facts being at that time, and on that occasion, that despite Dr Craig pronouncing Sheila as being dead on the far side of the bed at 8.44am, the simple truth in the matter was that she couldn't have been dead, when Craig had pronounced her as being dead! Sheila had been alive at that time, barely alive, but alive!
She was still alive with Jones and Clark visited the main bedroom, and viewed Sheila laid out on top of the bed, she had still only got that solitary bullet entry wound to her neck, the rifle which would fire the second fatal bullet that finished Sheila off, was resting on the bed in-between the bodies of June and Sheila!
Robert Boutflour told Simpson a few home truths...
He told him...