OK. At this moment in time I think Jeremy was framed. In order to conclude otherwise I would have to have a pro-guilt timeline of events of what order the family was dispatched. If I was Jeremy walking towards the farm that night I would have to be thinking about what order the family was going to die. If it were me I would certainly want to kill Neville first since that would take care of the head of the family and drain the morale of the rest, but it seems that was not the case. Neville was the only other with experience with guns and knowledge of how to use them effectively. Why wasn’t Neville killed first while he slept?
Hoots!
Hi Tom, from your account I guess you don't think he did the shooting (some people think he's guilty but 'framed' with the silencer evidence)? Can I ask why you think EP would frame Jeremy when they had the case sewn up as a murder/suicide? Especially as they had to make themselves look pretty stupid and seriously incompetent in order to do so. Also, at what point did they start framing him? If there was a call from Nevill, they knew t from day one and could have proven to the relatives that Jeremy was innocent. If there was a female body in the kitchen, they knew it from day one and could have proven ........ you get the picture. So, when and why would they have decided to frame Jeremy?
Jeremy being framed drags up more questions than why Nevill wasn't targeted first BUT, I can offer a suggestion (or two). The best laid plans don't always work the way they were planned and perhaps circumstances intervened. Nevill may have awoken before Jeremy was able to get into a good enough position to shoot OR he may have been sleeping in another room (there are no casings on Nevill's side of the bed other than those used to kill Sheila, none of Nevill's blood was found in the main bedroom but there was some outside of Sheila's room - on the landing and all of the casings are located near to the main bedroom door). This may explain how Nevill managed to get passed Jeremy and down stairs.