No, what is very wrong is you 29 years later attempting to make him into something he never was...ever heard the saying about a silk purse and a pigs ear me dear?
He was a failed student, farmer, and diver but he did excel at being a drug dealer and a murderer.
The phrase is " a sows ear ",not a pigs ear.
What's a failed student got to do with anything ? Churchill was no scholar,but look where he landed !
Farming he loved as his father was teaching him the business side which Jeremy was willing to learn for his future.
As for being a failed diver--------bunkum. What advantage would that have been in Jeremys' world anyway ?
You failed to mention that Julie was the drug smuggler,as well as a seller as she too loved money as well as the finer things in life. I didn't notice her reporting any previous drug deals,or refusing champagne and lobster------------to bedding a " murderer ". Paid holidays too.No sign of " reporting a murderer" then,was there ?