One part of Jeremy's account which is a bit of a grey area, involves him leaving the farmhouse to go home to his cottage in Head Street, Goldhanger, on Tuesday evening, after returning the loaded rifle to the aforementioned settle. For example, he only refers to seeing both his parents and Sheila sat around the kitchen table discussing Sheila's inability to look after her two boys, and the suggestion that she needed help with bringing them up, on one occasion and that was when he loaded up the rifle with bullets intent on doing a spot of vermin control. He had returned to the farmhouse on the tractor and trailer which he had left in one of the barns. He supposedly seen some rabbits hopping about. He had gone into the farmhouse gathered the rifle and box of bullets, gone into the main kitchen, tipped the box of ammunition out on the kitchen worktop, and proceeded to load fresh rounds into the guns ammunition magazine. Somewhere amongst all of this, in-between his parents discussing with Sheila the help she needed, Jeremy had presumably informed his father that there was one last trailer load of crop to be collected from the field. All we know with a degree of certainty is that Jeremy left the farmhouse to go home to his cottage in Head Street, Goldhanger, at about 9.30pm, albeit, no-one actually claims to have physically seen him leaving. However, an occupant of one of the farm cottages did report that she heard Jeremy's Vauxhall Astra GTE speeding off down pages lane at about half past nine that evening...
We know that when Barbara Wilson spoke to Ralph Bamber on the phone at just before 10pm that evening that Ralph appeared rather abrupt in his tone of voice, which she put down to the possibility that something had upset him, or that her call had interrupted an argument of sorts...
A local resident, named Smith, reported to the cops that he heard a single shotgun blast come from the vicinity of whf on that very same evening, between 9.30 and 10.15pm...
When cops searched the farmhouse after the shootings they noted a 12 bore shotgun in the gun cupboard with an empty cartridge case...