Talking about blazing rows I just read in his book the account from Peter Thomas Healey about the time that June and Neville were threatened by Jimmy Bell . I had not taken in the fact that not only did he throw the bullets at them but stood there with his 22 rifle with the silencer attached when the threat was going on.
He also tells of another time when Jimmy Bell threatened him with the same rifle.
He is very peeved that his statement was not really acknowledged and still holds the belief that the sighting of the unidentified male was relevant and should have been revealed to the defence . The book is pretty weird to say the least but the last part does give interesting summary of how it was relevant that the prosecution with held evidence and EP withheld evidence that was not even revealed to the prosecution. It explains that at that time the defence could only request information from what the prosecution told them existed . And the prosecution should have revealed anything that could have potentially have helped jeremys defence. Which they did not.
There is also the name of the man who heard a shot or shots earlier in the evening .
I have only skim read it so far and as I say it is a book that is a bit "all over the place" but it is interesting.
Jan, much as everyone now seems to want Jimmy to be responsible, we MUST look at it more closely. It is said that Neville was responsible for Jimmy's imprisonment. The crime which put Jimmy there was too serious a crime for a magistrate's court so other than, perhaps referring it to Crown court, Neville had no involvement. It would have made more sense for Jimmy to threaten the trial judge.
Also to be looked at is that as most of his family were under police protection because of his threats against them, it HIGHLY unlikely he could have gone anywhere without the police knowing where he was and as he drove a top of the range Mercedes he was hardly inconspicuous.
The reason for Jimmy's ire with Neville and June rests, I believe, with his young wife, Augusta, who I believe had poured out her heart, regarding their unhappy marriage, to June, who, good woman that she was, had gone, accompanied by Neville(?) to visit Augusta at home, presumably to do some marriage guidance work. Jimmy would have been INCANDESCENT at their temerity in "interfering" in his business. He would neither have forgotten nor forgiven. It has to be remembered though, that despite his terrifying threats to shoot all and sundry, Jimmy ACTUALLY, until the time he shot Augusta and then turned the gun on himself, did little more than stalk. Had the man I'd known for much of my life, INTENDED to kill, he wouldn't have threatened, he'd have done it, just as he did with Augusta. He wouldn't have skulked around at night, he'd have done it in broad daylight because he'd have believed he was justified in doing it.
