Lots of innocent supporters have argued that a struggle didn't take place - (I even suggested it myself), however, while some of the damage may have been caused by the raid team, some of it looks staged! The plates on the floor near the phone for instance; it looks as though they are there to bolster the notion that Neville was attacked while trying to use the phone. There are no pictures of the light fitting (as far as I can see) but maybe Harters knows where it was/is situated?
1) There is no way that the beating Nevill suffered from was staged. He was shot while passed out on the chair. If he had been bashed in while passed out on the chair then his body would have fell over.
2) Beating his lifeless body to stage a struggle makes no sense. Sheila should have been injured in a truly strong struggle (he had no way to know Nevill's arm was broken) and a struggle would only happen if the gun were empty.
3) If you are suggesting the struggle was limited in scope but then he tried staging it to make it look more severel that is possible but if so was stupid on his part given the clean state of her body and clothing. He should have tried concealing the struggle took place not making it look worse and more wild. Clearly his arm was wounded when he tried blocking blows from the rifle stock and the rifle stock bashed his head in. How the overtunred chairs etc fit in to that we cna't knwo and perhaps some staging was done later to ake it look more wild.
4) The ceiling light was not only high but over the table. It was not broken by someone being directly unde rit. It was broken by the rifle being held diagonally while standing near the table and smashing it. That action is what suggests the moderator needed to be attached because the rifle was otherwise not long enough. So we have evidence of them arguing over the rifle with the rifle essentially shoulder high and then evidence of the front of the gun (moderator) being waist level or lower as they argued based on the scratches to the mantle. Is it possible to knock chairs entirely over as you bump into them? Yes but it depends on the chair because all chairs take different effort.
The bottom line is there definitely was a vicious beating. We can't be sure if Jeremy added anything to the scnee ot make it look more severe than it was. The only reaosn I can think of Jeremy to do that would be because he wanted it to seem it took longer and was harder for her to defeat Nevill than it was for him since she was smaller so it would be expected to be a more difficult task for her. But that just makes it more likely she would would have been injured and covered in Nevill's blood so would create more problems not less.
Since there is evidence Nevill tried to tekae the gun away not just to raise his arm to defend himself from blows I am not prepared to say there was definite staging done to make it look more severe. They could have bumped into things and a long rifle can knock things over quite easily during a struggle.
It does indeed look like someone was thinking about what to do in the kitchen so far as staging and with Sheila's body as well so it is certainly possible some of the finer details were staged. If it could be proved there was staging that would be another nice strike against Jeremy but I don't see that as possible since there was clearly a struggle of some magnitude.
