She never changed her story, she added to it and most effectively if I may say so.
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Sorry, she did not add to it, she changed her story as the time progressed, first it was a hitman killed the family, and that JB paid him 2000 pounds, then it turned into JB doing it himself - now if that isn't changing her story, I don't know what to say?
According to her in her original statements, a hitman did it, but no sooner does McDonald get cleared by a reliance upon an alibi, Mugford changes her story, and makes out JB was the person who actually carried out the murders, now if that isn't changing her story, then you need urgently to educate me...
I don't believe that's true Mike? She didn't change her story. Mcdonald was even in court. Surely she wouldn't have even thought of the Mcdonald story if she hadn't been told it by JB. If she'd wanted to 'frame' JB she would have just done it from the outset. She lied to the family though, seemingly to cover for JB, especially when she identified the bodies.
JM did changer her story...
the hitman claim was her way to pass off why she kept seeing JB and seeing him against the backdrop of him being a killer....which she would not have done...or so she says ...so she had to find a reason to cover that angle when framing JB.
JM could not frame JB from the outset as (HE DID NOT DO IT) she did not have anything to hand to fabricate her false story with. Only as time went on and police and others contributed information could the fabrication come into being that would morph into the evidence given in court.
... Mugford could not target Jeremy directly from the outset, as the killer, because Jeremy told her about the figure which he and the police had seen at the bedroom window - at the time Jeremy told JM about this sighting, both would have been satisfied, that one of the victims was still very much alive by that stage, and so Mugford, would have been on dodgy ground making direct allegations that Jeremy killed the family himself. So, she went for the other option, she made up a story that Jeremy had paid a hitman, a local mercenary, two thousand pounds to kill his family - she knew Mathew McDONALD and the reputation he had got locally, and she gambled that even if Jeremy got arrested as a result of the information she was prepared to give to the police at that early stage, and hd was releasf without charge, she gambled that Jeremy would end up with McDONALD on his case. All that Mugford was concerned with at that early stage, was to disrupt Jeremy's lifestyle - it almost backfired on her, because McDONALD had an alibi, and Jeremy got bailed on a burglary charge.,
hmm And just suppose JM knew she had crossed someone in suggesting he was a "hitman"......ah not a good thing... ..
by making such a claim she opened herself up to a possible revenge attack if there was any substance to the hitman claim , regardless of JB's innocence or guilt....is this why she fled the country? ...possibly fearing she may face retribution of some sort. If JM was also a cannabis user then her own paranoia would come into play ..making her fears greater than they should have been.
