According to NB's phone call to JB
"she's got 'the' gun" implies a definite article , as if to suggest there was only one gun in the house.... 'the' gun and not 'a' gun
multiple items would need to be separated.
Please come quickly, Sheila has gone crazy and has got the gun.Hi BG, it’s interesting (to me anyway) when you deconstruct the sentence given by JB, as allegedly used by Nevill.
Please – why use this word when the situation is so urgent.
Jeremy, come quickly.......... would have been more to the point - imo
Quickly... JB implied his Dad was desperate.... and of course JB did not react “quickly”.
Crazy... the word crazy supports JB's planned attempt to direct blame on his schizophrenic sister.
And has got “the” gun – ah! THE gun - THE one conveniently left out in JB’s story.
A direct attempt by JB to connect the gun he left out with the gun Sheila was allegedly using, and the gun that Nevill knew to refer to - oops!
In JB’s mind, when constructing the sentence, it was THE gun, as that is how he perceived the made up scenario.
JB knew which gun he had used and wanted to connect it to the story of the gun left on the settle, the fake phone call from Nevill, and Sheila!
A slip up by JB.
And then the convenient.... "and then the phone went dead".
These elements to me show a staged approach!
And that, amongst other things, leads me to believe the phone call never happened
