How could she misconstrue 'I am going to kill my parents'? How could she get THAT meaning wrong? If what she said in court was the truth - which part was the joke, jest or phrase that she got wrong?
There must be thousands of young family members for whatever reason say " I'm going to kill my mum and dad,or mum or dad " which doesn't necessarily mean that they are going to or indeed they do.
Julie may have heard that numerous times and passed it off as something that he WAS joking about.But when it came to the crunch in court,she decided to USE it against him,like all his other phrases he probably said,all came to life.
Julie HAD to repeat these with meaning to fit the bill and most likely with a more serious face that that which Jeremy would have used. You either take it as read or you don't. Julie hadn't done until it suited,but I reckon at the same time,she knew in her heart that what she was doing was wrong.
Yes,he probably said all manner of things,but not in the way it was meant at trial. As I've already said,his father was full of fun with tricks and jokes--------it states so in AE's COLP statement of 1991.