The writing on the note is pretty awful, but doesn't it say "words to the effect"? That's not verbatim.
Hi Shona! BW was an accounts person, wasn't she? Renowned for her well organised memory and sense of recall, for her reliability and precise accuracy, hence her long term employment by two of Nevill's businesses? I'm not a gambling woman but I would lay a bet on the statement BW recalled representing, at the very least, the precise essence of what she had been told.
Hallo, Choch. This is a tough one, because it relies on BW's memory, and words said in the heat of the moment, I suppose. Sheila was unstable at times, and could have said things that she didn't mean, and later regretted. If I had a pound for every time I said to one of my girls "I could kill your father" I wouldn't have to do the lottery.
Gallows hyperbole, much loved by Hartley; anyone for the planet Twizzle? Yes, you may have a point. I had a boyfriend once who threatened to kill his parents on an almost daily basis. He detested them for forcing him to be a Sunday school teacher, so he stole from the church collection to buy his fags and would describe in lurid detail how he would borrow a gun from his school and shoot them both. But that cuts both ways, doesn't it? Gallows hyperbole is what I believe lies at the heart of JM's claims regarding Jeremy.
Did you ever tell anyone what your boyfriend was threatening to do?
Why would I? He didn't dump me...in fact...
I wasn't presuming for a minute that he did. But you're obviously thinking the same as me - why didn't you, and JM, warn someone of your boyfriends' intentions?
1. I was besotted, just like JM.
2. I knew he couldn't harm a fly, he never has.
3. The biggest wimps make the biggest threats....you know, like 'rest my case' Hartley!
4. It's all about verbal cojones replacements for emotionally castrated wimps, n'it?
5. And the last reason, which you've not yet guessed, Shon', is.....?
