Can we stop squabbling about the pecking order on this site and try and stick to what we can bring to the case in order to elucidate others,both older and newer members?It's about time we had a new perspective on this case and Daniel is a breath of fresh air who is being castigated by the usual culprits who have had to up their game because of remarks similar to Daniel's. How many weeks did it take for the Jeremy supporters to offer at least a viable scenario of what went on at the Farm during the early hours when my demands for it months ago met a deafening silence from all quarters?
Daniel is quite correct in his analysis of the crimes,which could not have been thought out by a young exhausted mentally ill woman in psychosis. They were planned over a matter of months as Jeremy farmed the land,that solitary figure working the landscape in a job alien to him which he could only eschew through the death of his parents. He dropped hints to Julie,whose role has been gone into many times and sometimes even at the highest level on this site misleading counsel has been given. Can't you see that Jeremy had speculated about these murders from the run-up to Christmas 1984 when he mentioned the burning down of the Farm to Charles Marsden,can't you see that he was trying to keep Ann Eaton on side by sending her a birthday card for the first time in her life,and his comments that the ownership of the caravan park would fall into both their hands? We have the evidence from Doris Foakes that he was "not sharing any of my money with Sheila",a remark which had it been the other way round the Jeremy supporters would have had a field day with,as would similarly have been the case with James Richards' evidence that Jeremy told him on numerous occasions with vehemence that "I f***ing hate my parents".
All this is quite independent of Julie's evidence which itself is damning. Patti asks for corroboration of a struggle that morning. Of course there was because the ceiling light got smashed,though Jeremy didn't seem overly concerned as he related his story to Julie,because in his mind the difficult work had been done and the head of the investigation DCI Taff Jones was onside. Faced with these logistics Julie was almost an irrelevance as he bounced his ideas pre-murders off her,not understanding women at all as so many boys who grew up in a male-dominated environment do not. Lookout and Caroline discuss the fingerprints on the murder weapon. It's quite evident that had Jeremy taken the gun out on the Tuesday evening his fingerprints should be all over the gun,not just one,and suggests to me that the gun had indeed been wiped as Jeremy told Julie. More damning is the removal of the sights to facilitate the killings,a time-consuming process involving a screwdriver which is another deadly hint that Jeremy was behind it all.
I also note that the purported telephone call has been discussed again. Firstly no Police Officer recalls speaking to Nevill personally that morning which is the biggest giveaway that he didn't make a call to them. Secondly to follow the scenario mentioned in one of the most recent posts Nevill realizes Sheila has got a gun and decides to summon his son's help in disarming her. We have to take it as given that he knows the number of Bourtree Cottage by heart,that Jeremy will hear the telephone,make his way down the rickety staircase in the early hours and pick up. We also have to accept that Jeremy doesn't accede to his father's request by driving over to the Farm immediately which wouldn't suit his evil scheme,but instead Jeremy is the one who calls the Police. Of course it's all possible in theory,but Nevill never came across to my mind as someone who was beholden to another person,which was part of the man's genius and the reason for his Midas touch in business. Jeremy didn't get along with Sheila as we know from his statements to Police upon arrival at the Farm. Far more likely is Jeremy trying to be clever with the latest gadgetry to hit the market at that time,an answerphone,and to cycle back to his cottage,retrieve the tape and then make an attempt to ring the Farm,whose telephones are disconnected at his behest.
