I look for patterns. Sadly there's a consistent pattern of behavioural, emotional and psychological issues with Sheila. No such pattern exists for JB other than he used recreational drugs. Not my bag personally but plenty of people use recreational drugs including judges and mp's etc.
This is a thread predominantly about Sheila and how right and comforting that the Jeremy supporters do this as it brings them solace as the twenty-eighth anniversary of the murders approaches. It is the defence's strongest card which was never used fully due to the mistakes of public schoolboys grown old,against another public schoolboy grown old who would have felt affinity with Nevill from their RAF days.
When I look at Jeremy dispassionately I see a lonely boy in most of the photographs(there's one particularly as a boy of about 8 or 9 taken I would assume at Gresham's as he looks slightly away from the camera)and I can see from there that he looks rather bewildered at the whole thing as he doesn't know where his place is in the world. Later of course he would come to realize that he was brought to the farm to work it,irrespective of whether he wanted to or not,and the growing realization that he was tied to the farm until his parents' death grew irrepressibly inside him. The pretext that his father was past his prime as can be seen in that dark,gross form with head in the coal bucket with long,straggly greasy hair visible gave him the justification for the execution of his family:it had been heretofore Nevill as the linchpin of the family which Jeremy as well as Sheila sensed and appreciated which in the past few months had disintegrated with his illness. It was fitting that Nevill was the only person whom Jeremy expressed a hint of regret to Julie at having killed.
As for Sheila she was a sick woman with schizophrenia and who knows what the outcome to her life would have been,what twists and turns she would have experienced in the vicissitudes of life,which would have at least been mitigated by the lenitive largesse of her parents' wills,which Jeremy was determined to override. As Dr. Ferguson stated Sheila had too much to live for,she might flit from one cause to another but she was curious and inquisitive about human nature,and realized that the divorce from Colin might after all have been a blessing in disguise as it had brought them closer together,as she also told Helen Grimster,though Jeremy only saw the malevolence in her words which he used for his own ends.
