I can't imagine that Jeremy would have been taken for a ride in this way. Who's going to be daft enough to carry out a " plan ",knowing that a crime like this was going to result in spending the rest of your life in prison. ?
Neither Jeremy nor Julie " knew " this was going to happen and because Jeremy wrote the way he did as opposed to losing his temper,was far from an admission of his guilt. He probably thought that he was going to be left out in the cold altogether with his family gone and the only other person who'd been in his life the longest was Julie,who he thought would have believed that he was telling the truth.
Yes,I don't doubt that they'd BOTH made plans for the future and will have BOTH spoken of the day when Jeremys' parents were too old to carry on,leaving BOTH Julie and Jeremy to run WHF,while his parents sought an easier and more relaxed life-style,possibly a swap to live at Goldhanger themselves.
But-------------not to end in this way.
I'm of the belief that as things unfolded the way they did,that it was purely coincidental that Jeremy had spoken about " killing his family " then sadly it did happen.
Much the same as a passenger on the ill-fated, second Air Malaysia flight had posted a tweet to his pal to say " this is what I look like in case you don't see me again " ,until the worst happened. Did that poor passenger know what was going to happen so suddenly after the first tragedy ? I think not,or he wouldn't have boarded that flight,or would he ? These things don't happen because you will them to,as it IS a coincidence when you speak of something and it does happen,but it doesn't mean to say that you had anything to do with it.
Exactly the same goes for the murders at WHF. Because Jeremy may,or may not have spoken about such a thing,doesn't make him a murderer,nor is it meant as an auto-suggestive ploy for anyone else to carry them out.
As I've already stated,had Jeremy made such a remark,then the world and his wife would have got to know,beforehand,and a tragedy could have been averted. Particularly RWB having known,everyone in the area would have been aware,especially the police at that stage,as it was a" death threat ". Back then it would have been broadcast a lot more than it is today with threats of death being an everyday occurrence.
IF it had been said by Jeremy,then nobody took any notice which can only mean one thing,that he wasn't capable of carrying out his " threats ",which to my mind doesn't make him culpable.
Of the two of them,it was Sheila who protected Jeremy in their younger years.It was she who sorted the bullies out who mocked Jeremy on their way to school,so she was more than capable in her older years,coupled with problems, and drugs to block out her miserable life, to build up enough adrenaline to fight back,except that she couldn't have done it any other way than with the guns which were kept at the farm.
