Hi Steve, I could say the same to you about who you think is responsible for the murders that took place that night. One of the first lies Julie told was that M. Mcdonald had murdered them...and JB had paid him 2k.
I don't think he felt a sense of relief at all, that his family had been killed, I can't understand why anyone would think that..let alone say it...To me the lad was in shock, he did not want to believe it had happened.....he called Jones a hard bastard, when he asked him if he shot his family....he told Jones he did not want to hear things about what had happened to them, he also talked in the present tense, which psychologically means that he hadn't excepted that they were dead....Sometimes, when you lose loved ones, it does not hit you for a long while....
I lost both my parents together 7 years ago and I am now undergoing bereavement counselling 7 years on....It was difficult for me to grieve; every time I went to cry, I couldn't because of the pains in my head, so this caused me to stop grieving. Not everyone grieves in the same way Steve....You can't judge a man because he sold some stuff after the funerals; he had to take control, not only the farm, but everything else....his mind must have been a wreck....valium and injections....drugs mixed with drink....this is how he grieved.......I will tell you this...if Jeremy had been found not guilty, he would have had hell of a fight on his hands regarding the wills and estate...just as much as there was a long drawn out legal battle when Jeremy was found guilty.....it was not to be straight forward for his extended family either.
he had just lost his family and had funerals to pay for. Don't forget his friends were at hand to help him all the way and to cheer him up....get him to go out and go on holiday. One has to wonder if the friends used Jeremy, thinking he was the rich kid and tagged along to see what they could get out of it.....The hotel in Amsterdam where Julie Brett and Jeremy stayed was a one bedroom affair....it wasn't the 5 star luxury that was reported in the press.....
I am not saying that Jeremy didn't like the high life at all....Julie loved it too...otherwise she wouldn't have been with him....she could have refused, but she didn't did she....no matter what her regrets are today, she certainly never regretted it at the time... 
Of course Jeremy didn't admit to killing two six year old boys directly,favouring the proxy solution,just as if America decides to take out Iran's nuclear facilities it will use its friend Israel as cover..however he does let slip that a glove came off in the fight with Nevill,which necessitated Jeremy wiping the rifle clean of his fingerprints,whilst fretting that Sheila's would not show up. He couldn't possibly have known this fact had he not either hired a hitman or been personally responsible.
As for Jeremy's mourning,it's true that everyone reacts in different ways to death but both DS Jones and PC Bewes recognized how false Jeremy's actions appeared including his simulated calmness,then his attempting to be sick which was a sham,followed by Jeremy asking the Police if they would join him in a fry-up at the cottage,not to mention Jeremy's chuckle,his ripping up of the twins' photograph in Maida Vale and his laughing and giggling with Brett and their discussion of spin doctor tactics in dealing with the funerals.
