Martin , i do not know too much about the case , did you work on it ? If what you say is true , i think in all fairness his wife should have been asked to take one and her response placed next to the response of SJ , i agree with you regarding the press and the case's you mention !!
Jon
I became particularly interested in the case when it occurred to me that the idea of his guilt was just absurd. His two eldest daughters both say that Billie-Jo was alive when the three of them left the house. The CPS originally did not want to prosecute because they accepted that the evidence of his daughters gave him a solid alibi. He only ended up being charged because his wife Lois told the police that Annie and Lottie had in effect lied in their interviews, but had, since then, told the real truth to her. An alternative suggested was that Sion had somehow planted false memories in their minds. It was said that Annie had had her thoughts “reconstructed” by Sion.
My opinion as to Lois’s motivation basically follows the position of Sion’s defence.
The police convince Lois that Sion is guilty on the basis of the bloodspots found on his fleece.
Understandably she does not want him back in the house and very early on makes the decision to divorce him.
She knows that if she divorces him he will want access.
She wants him out of her life altogether.
So she lies to get him put away.
I’ve tried to get a lot into a small space. If you want the full story from the defence's point of view read the book “ The Murder of Billie-Jo” by Sion Jenkins and Bob Woffinden.
