Hi curiousessex sorry I did not know that but he did have the keys so he could have entered by the door if he had not left them behind. I have read how he was removing valuables from the house to sell in London so I am surprised nobody put a stop to that such as the relatives who would know he did not own the house. How strange is all this. The police had to ask his permission to burn carpets etc from the house they must have thought he owned the lot.
Surely there's a particularly difficult legal problem here. If WHF wasn't Jeremy's, surely nor was the Goldhanger cottage because it was farm property. It appears, therefore, that Jeremy, under the terms of the will is required to farm the land but has no legal entitlement to live there so effectively, he would have been homeless. Now, if WHF didn't belong to Jeremy, why did the police give him the keys? Assuming that the contents were Jeremy's what right did the rellies have to remove things?