It's the Defence who insist Sheila had a psychotic evidence in the early hours of Wednesday morning with no evidence whatsoever. All I'm saying is that Jeremy claimed in a statement to Police that Sheila had been in receipt of ECT and that Sheila's vacant stare and behaviour may have been a symptom of it.
Ok Steve if you insist but there is NO evidence Sheila ever had ECT, we do know June had it at some point. It was mainly used for depression as stated before. If Sheila had ECT treatment the last possible treatment would have been at her last hospitalisation in the previous May (I think).
After ECT a patient has a recovery period which may cause some withdrawal but this is temporary and afterwards the mood is bright and positive until often slipping back into depression at a later date.
Sheila would not have suddenly out of the blue become withdrawn because she had ECT a few months before.
On the other hand although there is no proof, we know Sheila was a paranoid schizophrenic who suffered psychotic episodes but may also have been constantly in a state of psychosis not apparent to people in general.
We know she wasn't taking most of her medications, we know her Haloperidol, her anti psychotic medication, had been slashed to 100mgms from 250mgns which is a huge drop and that she was at the end of that dose and her next injection was imminent.
We know that week she had run screaming from the local monastery, something had obviously terrified her and there's a strong possibility she was at that point already in psychosis.
We know she became severely withdrawn as the week progressed and by the 6th August she was withdrawn and unresponsive.
We know that this sort of catatonic behaviour is common before a severe psychotic episode.
It's true we were not there and we do not know if Sheila killed herself and 4 members of her close family but weighing the odds you cannot deny there are real grounds for suspecting she may have.
