3 people had been made aware of" murder ",yet not one of them went to the police.Why was this ?
1) Dr Ferguson. After Sheila had told him of " killing her children ".
2) RBW. After Jeremy allegedy told him he " could easily kill his parents ".
3) JM. When she'd known in advance of Jeremy's " plans ".
A) Dr Ferguson clearly saw it as being part of her illness at the time -in 1983- it wasn't mentioned in 1985.
Besides which, there's patient confidentiality to be taken into consideration. The fact are probably that
whilst it was believed that she was responsible, her records weren't required to confirm it. When she
was no longer a suspect, she wasn't on trial so there was no occasion for them to be revealed.
B) I'd like a £ for every time someone has said those words. Are you really saying you'd report it to the
police if you heard the words said? RWB did what MOST of us would have done ie reported it after the
event. I wonder how many times we've all said of someone that we think they might be capable of......
but we don't do anything about it until/unless they do what we suspect them to have been capable of.
C) Ditto Julie. We might have a niggling concern about someone, but until we know our fears are
founded, most of us would refuse to believe them to be true.