Yet...
DI Cook (SOC) is supposed to have taken a paint sample (RWC/1) from the same area, on 14th August 1985, whilst Ann Eaton was present at whf with him - why is David Boutflour reporting the marks on the underside of the mantelpiece at whf to the police on 18th September 985, when marks have already supposedly been noted a month previously,. and a paint sample taken?
Wilkes says that, on the day following the murders, Stan Jones had convinced himself beyond a shadow of doubt that Jeremy was the murderer and managed to persuade Mick Clark to agree with him.
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I think this was / is linked to the fact that DS Jones found the original silencer at the scene (SBJ/1)...
Wilkes states that Stan Jones gave three, extremely weak reasons - each of these based on total misconceptions - to explain his belief that Jeremy was the murderer. Wilkes quotes Jones as stating:
"...in my mind something wasn't right. I kept thinking about the hearty breakfast, his general demeanour, and the feeling of the family that Sheila just couldn't have done it."
1. The hearty breakfast.
My mother and I, both of us in shock following my much loved father's sudden and premature death, sat giggling as we ate a hearty breakfast within hours of my father's death. We couldn't cry and were in complete denial, it was as though we'd both lost our marbles - and in a sense, we had. This is such a common initial experience among the bereaved.
The strangely incongruous effects of the shock and denial that often follow bereavement are well documented.
What's interesting about shock is that those who tend to be most affected by it are those who were closest to the deceased, the ones who loved them the most. Those who were not so close often bypass shock, are able to accept the death and can cry freely to express their grief from the outset.
Stan Jones' failure to grasp this basic fact of bereavement is shocking. Had my father died in suspicious circumstances and had Stan Jones, with his woeful lack of understanding of the effects of shock, interviewed us, might Jone have thought that my mother and I had killed my father?
