Jeremy does not know what happened that night inside the farmhouse, he only knows that his dad called him, and had time to inform him, then the line went dead. He knows that at the time of this call, that his father was still alive. He knows because he has no reason to disbelieve what his dad said to him, that somewhere in the farmhouse, Sheila had gone berserk with a gun. He did not know if by that stage his sister had shot anybody. He was asked to come to the farm quickly, but chose not too. If Jeremy had made the story up about the phone call, why would he introduce that line, ' come, quickly', and then deliberately choose not to attend immediately? Instead, he tried to phone his dad back, but got the engaged tone. He tried again, and again, but still kept getting the engaged tone. So, because Jeremy knew that his dad was the Chairman of the With am Magistrates Bench, Jeremy tried to phone With am police station, but got no response. He then called his girlfriend Julie Mugford, to tell her that there was something wrong at the farm. Then he looked up the telephone number for Chelmsford police station, and called them, and repeated to them what his dad had told him. There was some sort of a delay which gave the impression that the police at Chelmsford already knew that something was amiss at the farmhouse. Unbeknown to Jeremy his dad had already telephoned the police at 3.26am, to tell them that ' my daughter has got hold of one of my guns', etc. This had the further effect (unbeknown to Jeremy at that stage) of the occupants of CA07 being despatched to the scene before Jeremy had made his own call to the police at 3.36am. At the end of Jeremy's call to Chelmsford police station, which ended at 3.45am, or there about, the police told Jeremy to make his way to the farmhouse. Jeremy enquired of PC West whether or not the police would pick him up from his cottage and take him to the farmhouse, but he was told to make his own way there in his own car, because police had already been dispatched to the incident and were effectively minutes away from arriving there. Rather reluctantly, Jeremy was forced to attend the scene by his own motion. He left his cottage at 9 Head Street, Goldhanger, Tollershunt D'Arcy, at just after 3.45am and arrived at the scene at 3.52am. On the route to the farmhouse a police car with flashing blue lights overtook him on the way to the farmhouse. These were the occupants of CA07 who had been despatched 10 minutes or slightly more, earlier. The police inside this patrol car arrived in pages lane at around 3.48am, it had taken them 13 minutes to get from With am police station, to the farmhouse. In comparison, it had taken Jeremy around 7 minutes to get from his cottage in Head Street, Goldhanger, to the farmhouse. One thing of note, which needs to be mentioned, and that is before police told Jeremy to make his own way to the farmhouse, they advised Jeremy not to approach the farmhouse alone, should he arrive there ahead of the police, but to wait nearby until police get there...
None of these vital details were recorded in Jeremy's 3.36am call log...
