I wonder if it was a " trick of the light " when the rifle was seen at the window.? I've never heard of so many lame excuses in a case that was as big as this one of its time.
You see,Grahame,,people are in the habit,,,or were back then,of looking up to the law and believing their every word. Those of us of a certain age,were " programmed " to respect the law and take their word as gospel.
Sadly,it's not always like that,and the police weren't as they were 20 years prior to then.
Then you had the interfering relatives,which should NEVER have been allowed.All they were thinking about were themselves. The way they " took over " the case was abominable as all they did was to run Jeremy down,who wasn't exactly the right flavour so far as the police were concerned either,,though why someones personality had to come into the scenario,I don't know,,but it did.
However,,I've wondered and pondered a lot of things about this case,,and whichever way you look at it,it doesn't sit right at all. Every move that was made by the police seemed to have had a hidden agenda in which to throw the blame on someone who wasn't even there.
Raid teams are only sent if there's been absolute proof that someone is armed ( not because the fathers' phone-call said so )I remember reading that,somewhere,there are 6 audio tapes that were recorded from inside the house. Who would use 6 if there was no response.?
That 2 hours would have been the negotiating time,to my mind.
The tapes are allegedly at Southend,held under PII.Why.?
Sheila would have opened the curtains at the beginning of daylight so as not to arouse any suspicion with the lights having been on most of the night,presumably.
All this is going on while Jeremy's outside.! It's unbelievable.
