Time scale of massacre:

[Adam]

2.00am:

Leave cottage & cycle to WHF.


2.15am:

Enter WHF and fire the 26 bullets.


2.30am:

Stage scene.


3.00am:

Ring WHF. Cycle back to cottage.


3.15am

Change. Clean up. Dispose or put clothes into washing machine.


3.25:

Ring Julie.


3.26/36:

Ring Chelmsford Police.

[Adam]

No one will see him cycling to/from WHF at 2am & 2.45am.

Everyone should be in a deep sleep from 2.15am - 2.30am. Nevill waking while June was being shot.

[guest29835]

I fear your timescales fall down when you mention a bicycle.  Jeremy might as well have put a notice on the front door of Bourtree Cottage announcing he was about to commit mass murder.

[Adam]

I fear your timescales fall down when you mention a bicycle.  Jeremy might as well have put a notice on the front door of Bourtree Cottage announcing he was about to commit mass murder.

Well the prosecution case was he cycled to/from WHF.

The prosecution was successful.

[guest29835]

Well the prosecution case was he cycled to/from WHF.

The prosecution was successful.

Did the prosecution hinge on this?  It would have made far more sense for him to go by foot.

Incidentally, I've just been re-reading Ainsley's submission to the DPP, and to my surprise (I must have forgotten), he has Jeremy cycling along public roads!

[Adam]

The time Julie rang may have been at 3am.

Certainly before he phoned the police as he is saying he phoned them at 3.36am.

[Adam]

Did the prosecution hinge on this?  It would have made far more sense for him to go by foot.

Incidentally, I've just been re-reading Ainsley's submission to the DPP, and to my surprise (I must have forgotten), he has Jeremy cycling along public roads!

What do you think of the reason given why June's bike was brought to his cottage, just before the massacre -

So Julie could cycle to the station when going home.

[Jane]

Did the prosecution hinge on this?  It would have made far more sense for him to go by foot.

Incidentally, I've just been re-reading Ainsley's submission to the DPP, and to my surprise (I must have forgotten), he has Jeremy cycling along public roads!

Arguably, he COULD have, sans lights. He wouldn't have needed to go for many yards, on the main road, before taking a right turn and doing a detour cross country, using farm tracks.

[Steve_uk]

Wasn't there a statement from someone who saw a man on a bicycle at that hour?

[lookout]

Wasn't there a statement from someone who saw a man on a bicycle at that hour?

No, it was an old tramp----who, might I add, was stopped by police and questioned but we heard nothing more about it even though he came from the direction of WHF ?

[Jane]

No, it was an old tramp----who, might I add, was stopped by police and questioned but we heard nothing more about it even though he came from the direction of WHF ?

I can promise you it wasn't Jimmy Bell

[Steve_uk]

No, it was an old tramp----who, might I add, was stopped by police and questioned but we heard nothing more about it even though he came from the direction of WHF ?

I wonder if someone could bring this statement up? A tramp out in the wee hours on a sultry night might just be the type of person who had seen something.

[lookout]

I can promise you it wasn't Jimmy Bell

I don't know who it was Jane as it appeared to have been " passed off " but I think there were inquiries if I remember rightly.

[Adam]

Wasn't there a statement from someone who saw a man on a bicycle at that hour?

That would be big news.

[Jane]

I don't know who it was Jane as it appeared to have been " passed off " but I think there were inquiries if I remember rightly.

I don't think the person's -the hunched man?- identity was ever discovered.