Shelia:
Shelia was adopted and, had been diagnosed as being a paranoid schizophrenic. She had been
sectioned a few times. Her children had also been taken into foster care. She shared custody of her
two children with ex husband Colin Caffell. Two days prior to the murders Shelia was released from hospital
and, was spending a week, with the twins at White Farm.
Day before the killing Shelia takes cannabis, she had also been injected with the drug Haloperidol.
Shelia was confused, she had told her psychiatrist, that her children were possessed by the devil
and she imagined her children having sex. She was obsessed by god and could hear voices
in her head.
Shelia's boy friend Freddie had made a statement that Shelia could be violent and on
one occasion thrown things round the kitchen, thumped her self and the wall. Shelia told him
god was sat opposite her and that her children had been possessed with the devil....
Shelia did not want her children taken into care, nor did she want to return into care herself.
Shelia felt dominated by her mother. Social services had been involved, her children had received
burns on legs and tummy; also one of the children Daniel had an head injury and, was taken to
hospital, it was said he had fallen from a taxi, but social services did nothing...other than make a statement
that was never produced in court.
Scenario:
Shelia could not sleep, she becomes paranoid...and is now going crazy....Shelia goes downstairs
for a drink, she sees the gun.....She picks it up and goes back upstairs, she enters her parents bedroom.
She start to argue with her parents.....Nevill goes downstairs, he calls the police and his son...Nevill runs
back upstairs, by this time, Shelia is arguing fiercely with her mother...Her mother throws her bible at Shelia,
it hits the wall and lands on the floor....Shelia shoots her mother, she turns the gun on her father and shoots him
3 times. Her mother manages to get out of bed, she shoots her again and again..Shelia goes into her children's
bedroom and shoots them. She then goes back into her parents bedroom and Nevill is not there....She races down
stairs to find a subdued Nevill trying to get to the phone....she pushes him on the back with the nozzle of the gun...
She knows he is trying to get to the phone....she shoots another 4 times....Nevill falls over the chair and his poor
head goes into the coal scuttle...She prods him again on the back to make sure he is dead....She then goes back
upstairs to her mother, she knows the police are outside, they had seen her in the kitchen....she sits on the edge
of the bed, she shoots herself in the neck, but it only wounds her...
She then falls to the floor and manages to sit up and shoots the fatal shot that kills her.....she falls awkwardly hitting
her head on the side of the bed, the gun lands on top of her...
