Something has always bugged me about Jeremy's story of what happened the previous evening, specifically - why it took him so long to take the last trailer to the combine. He claims to have come back to the house at 8 or 9pm (I'm sure he could have been more specific), had some supper in the kitchen where there was a discussion about Sheila. However, was this discussion ONLY about Sheila? What if he was just fed up and couldn't be arsed to take the last trailer to the combine (or just said he couldn't to cause an argument as part of his plan). I imagine Neville would have been furious and told Jeremy to get his finger out which might have gravitated to him threatening to move Sheila into his cottage and Jeremy back to WHF so they could keep and eye on him.
Either way, Jeremy said he took the trailer to the combine after putting the gun on the settle, did some work in a field and came back to WHF on foot? Why wouldn't he have just waited for the trailer to fill and take it back to WHF? Instead he left it there and claims his dad agreed to collect the last load? It was almost 10pm?? That doesn't make sense - it was collected but who really collected it and when? Perhaps Jeremy planned the trailer episode, taking it across country to as far as he could get as the crow flies to Goldhanger or the nearest access road, path, he then walks back, tells his dad he will get the load in the morning, at which point Neville flies off the handle and tells him it needs doing tonight. He has something to eat, perhaps messes with the gun or maybe that didn't happen. He leaves around 9:45, takes his car with an excuse that it will be quicker to drive to the field to collect the trailer, when actually, he drives home, makes his call to Julie (first part of the alibi – he's home by 10) and walks across land back to the trailer, leaving his car at home for the neighbours to see.
After returning to the trailer, he completes the last load and takes it back to WHF, he doesn't need to break in, his dad is expecting him and maybe he agrees to stay the night to make an early start in the morning. So, he's already in the house and only needs to get out of a window 'after' killing everyone. He may have been supposed to sleep in the other single bed in Sheila's room – perhaps that's why his dads slippers were next to the bed because Jeremy borrowed them?
Before leaving WHF after the murders, he calls his number which is intercepted by his answer phone, he clicks the release button making sure the call is disconnected and puts the receiver on the worktop and walks home across the fields which as the crow flies, is a short distance.
Babs Wilson said she called Neville at 9:30 to ask about dropping a bike off for the twins and he was in a really bad mood (as he would be if in his eyes, Jeremy was taking the piss), Jeremy said he left WHF at 9:45 and they were ALL in a good mood. This being the case (and given that BW only lives 5 mins away) why didn't he ask Jeremy to go and collect the bike?
One of the first things he took from WHF on his return (after looking for the wallet) was to collect the video – perhaps he taped the programmes he claimed to have watched on the WHF video? No one would have checked as they thought he spent the evening at Goldhanger or at least most of it.
He has secured an alibi in several ways, he made the call to Julie, his car is in the drive, he tells everyone that Neville collected the last trailer giving the impression it was collected after he left. If anyone saw the trailer in the fields that night, from what Jeremy said, they would have assumed it was Neville.
He had to have an alibi because if he had just let someone find the scene in the morning, he might still have been a suspect and the police may have started looking at him from day one and he wouldn't have had time to get rid of things like the video tape, the clothes he was wearing etc.
OK, off to put on my tin hat and dig out a bunker
