I am hugely proud of him, Jackie. There were of course thousands of stories of outstanding bravery during wartime, almost every one of the British people were heros in one way or another. My father was so very fortunate too, around half a million of our service personnel never returned from battles overseas, my father could so easily have been one of them. I was born years after the war, so I wouldn't have been born if he hadn't struggled so hard to survive, God bless him.
How tragic that the pathological effect of poor Sheila's paranoid schizophrenia channelled her survival instinct into such negative and distorted modes of expression. If Sheila did kill her family, she was in no sense to blame for that. The chemical and physiological imbalances of her brain would have so distorted her perception and conduct that one change to the medication that controlled these negative impulses could have been sufficient to push the poor girl over the brink.
