Hi Adam, I have read Wilkes' book and was pleasntly surprised thst it wasn"t nearly as biased as some quotes had lead me to believe. I have leant it to someone so cannot check quite what he wrote about breakfast but I am sure I have read in a statement on this forum that the police told Jeremy to eat because they were concerned for him. All he had to eat was 2 old slices of bacon, which he duly ate. I wonder if you have ever experienced the shock and confusion of one close family member dying and conclude you haven't ..... when my father died in his sleep my Mothrt had bteakfast and was laughing .... no she hadn't killed him, she had cared for him lovingly. Shock causes all kinds of protective emotions, sometimes for months or even years.
Hi Maggie,,I think death hits harder as you get older because you've learned to appreciate who that person was and how much was done for you if they'd been a parent/spouse.
When you're young,like Jeremy was at the time,,and hadn't learned the true understanding of death/dying,then grieving/mourning takes on an entirely different stance. He would have been confused from the start,wondering how he should act or behave and because of the business side of things too,he'd have to remain steadfast and clear-headed,which is difficult to master when you've lost all your family.
Jeremy had been ridiculed and criticised when he allegedly sat in his fathers' office at WHF,feet on the desk calling himself " the boss ". Whether he did do this or not,,has no bearing on the case,nor did a lot of his other alleged modes of behaviour which certainly doesn't point to him being a murderer.
Then for his extended family to turn their backs on him was despicable,at a time when support was in short supply for him.
No two people are alike when it comes to grieving,,nor is there a right or wrong way of doing so,and it's not up to anyone to dictate how a person should behave. Thank goodness there are those of us who are individually-minded.
