This thread has been interesting.
one of the things i have done is considered wether or not i would have immediately told the police if my husband had admitted he had hired a hitman to kill his family because he hated them and wanted the money.
i categorically came to an immediate conclusion that no matter what my feelings were for him i could not and would not have kept quiet especially knowing two small boys had been murdered.
Just consider it for a few minutes, im sure 100% of you on this forum would not have been able to cope with it. Maybe for a couple of days but then i would have run as fast as i could away from him and to the nearest policeman.
i cannot understand her doing this and its one of the reasons i believe her first statement was correct.
if her second and subsequent statement is the truth she peverted the course of justice and should have spent a few years inside.
It is easy to say that when you are not in the situation. It is far more difficult to actually follow through with what you claim you will categorically do. I know someone who said that if someone tried to rob him that he would paralyze the SOB. Years later he was robbed and did nothing. Talk is cheap.
In any event Julie is not you nor were the countless loved ones actually put in such situations who ended up not ratting out their loved ones right away or at all and some even covered for their loved ones and some wet beyond that still in helping get rid of evidence including bodies.
The notion that Julie lied because someone in her position would not have remained silent fails miserably.
Perverting Justice AKA obstruction requires more than not telling police everything you know. It requires telling untrue things that throw police off track and thus causes interference that would not otherwise exist or actively interfering by helping dispose of evidence. Depending on the extent it can rise to the level of an accessory after the fact which can have more severe punishment than simply obstruction.
There is no legal duty to come forward and tell police everything you know. There is evidence Julie didn't tell police everything she knew but that's it. There isn't evidence she agreed to help cover for Jeremy by actively lying.
If he told her during the 3Am or 6AM call that they were all dead and he was going to lie to police saying he got a call from Nevill and needed her to tell them that he told her of receiving such call and being worried THEN she would be guilty of perverting justice because in that scenario she knew the call from WHF never happened, knew Jeremy was not concerned and was actively lying pretending he was concerned about a call in order to help support Jeremy's bogus claim he got a call.
There is no evidence that this is the case. Julie says he claimed he did receive a call and lied to her about receiving such a call just like he lied to everyone else. Jeremy is the only one who could contradict this by saying he told her he was going to pretend he received a call and needed her to lie saying he told her he received the call and was worried. Doing this though would confirm his guilt.
If people choose to believe he told her he was making the call up and that he needed her to lie claiming he told her he received the call and was concerned for their safety that's their prerogative. But to convict her for obstruction would require proof. Deciding to believe this is what happened or suspecting this is what happened is not proof.