I still think he was attempting to draw fire away from June.
You could be correct april. Nevill might have phoned Jeremy from the office at which point Sheila may have been in a state of psychosis and have the gun but before he really believed she would use it..
He may have dropped theoffice phone and left it off the hook as he heard noises from the bedroom which told him the situation had deteriorated and then acted as a decoy encouraging Sheila to follow him and maybe take a shot at him. He would have had no idea she was capable of the carnage that ensued.
He may have not rung from the kitchen, the bloodied hand mark may have been a coincidence as he tried to steady himself after Sheila's lucky shots totally incapacitated him before collapsing into the chair.
Of course this would mean Neville was probably the first to die and that would make sense, with him dead Sheila would have had free rein. The o
The original phone off the hook could have been the office phone because how could an operator listening in to an open line hear Crispy the dog in the bedroom when the phone off the hook was supposed to be in the kitchen. Surely the walls of that old house were far too thick to hear a whimpering dog from such a distance.
It's possible that the police replaced the office phone. We are told that one of the police team phoned a police officer at the station from the downstairs phone (can't remember who phoned who at the moment) and he very possibly may have left the receiver lying on the work top which was totally misleading???
