Jane - you know me by now - I am still looking at all angles and yes it is possible to say that is unlikely - but the thing is he did tell the truth about is that his family were very private and so he would , half asleep , hesitate about what to do - after all nothing was said about a shot being fired etc etc.
It is unlikely - but not impossible .
As I have said I am reading the CAL book at the moment as it does refer to actual documents. And perhaps I am at the stage you and Caroline were a few months ago - but don't insult my intelligence because you were in exactly the same position and then "saw the light" - perhaps I will too. But it will be in my own time .
Jan, I'm sorry if you feel that I've insulted your intelligence.
Back when I thought he was innocent, I DID accept the phone call. THAT was the problem. I didn't LOOK at it. It was when I started to, and broke it down -to humanize- it that I realized that something was missing. I know it's been said that the Bambers were very private -I concur- and Nevill was old school, stiff upper lip, but Jeremy eventually told police that his father had sounded panicked - terrified. That fact alone, hearing, maybe for the first time EVER, real fear in his father's voice, would SURELY have galvanized Jeremy into immediate action, but it didn't.
It's also been said that he was half asleep. Having, sadly, received numerous calls at that time of morning, all I can say is, however tired I may have been, the moment the phone rang, my senses were on high alert. It MAY turn out to be a hoax or wrong number but it's far more likely to be a problem -and a serious one- for the phone to ring at that hour.
