Why would they tell me the truth?
Well, I grew up with some of them and I trust them on this.
I have to go by gut instinct that they are being honest about this.
I always said to people on here that these guys are contactable and pretty much all of them are prepared to speak about the case to this day. If people on this site want more information then there is nothing to stop them tracking these guys themselves.
Hello SJ, I hope you're having a wonderful Christmas, apart from painting a ceiling.
I can go along with much of what you say, however, I'm reminded of a story I was told when I was in college. One of my fellow students had two brothers. One day when he was nine, he and his brothers said goodbye to their mother and left for school as usual. They never saw her again, when they returned home, she had left. Their father being unable to cope, the three boys were put into care..............seperately. You may imagine that it had an appalling effect on all of them but my co-student eventually went into therapy and was encouraged to find his brothers and talk, for the first time, about the events of that terrible day and what it had done to them. They all took turns and each of them told a totally different story, but to each it had been as they had experienced it.
My late partners sons, who had turned sibling rivalry into an art form both told me exactly the same story regarding their childhood and how the other brother received all the attention and they(whoever was telling the story)had been ignored.
Whilst I'm not saying you've been lied to, I AM saying that the truth is often down to an individual's own experience of it.