Sheila is having a psychotic episode. She has been difficult to control and has already attacked Neville gouging his arms. She is persuaded to go back to bed but it doesn’t last long and she is up again. She finds one of the the rifles and locks herself in the bathroom. Neville gets up and tries to persuade her to go back to bed but she says she has a gun and will shoot herself if Neville doesn’t get Jeremy. Her plan is that the whole family will die.
Neville calls Jeremy and tells him to come to the house he then tries to make a follow on call to a doctor or maybe the police but before he finishes dialing he hears noises from upstairs. He drops the receiver and rushes up to the bedroom where he sees June has been shot multiple times. She has fallen out of bed but is alive. He crouches beside her. Sheila has come back into the bedroom behind Neville. She is naked apart from a pair of Neville’s socks. She comes up behind him and shoots him four times in the head and jaw. Neville is badly dazed but gets up and staggers out on to the landing and down the stairs. Sheila shoots again hitting Neville in the shoulder.
He collapses at the bottom of the stairs. His watch falling off and being dragged under the carpet as he crawls into the kitchen. He tries to reach the phone but Sheila is back. She shoots him again hitting him in the arm but then the gun is empty. Neville pulls himself to his feet. Crashes into the kitchen table when he is bludgeoned with the rifle. He is knocked unconscious and falls over some chairs. His pajamas fall down and he ends up with his head in the coal scuttle.
She decides to kill the twins but is worried they might wake up. She goes to the gun cupboard and finds the silencer and reloads the rifle. She goes upstairs and realizes that June is still alive. She has managed to get to the door but has collapsed. Sheila fires a shot to the head which kills June. She then goes and shoots the twins.
She imagines hearing Neville taunting her. She reloads the gun and shoots Neville twice more in the head. She then for some deluded reason decides to burn something onto his back. She goes back to hide in the gun cupboard. She is waiting for Jeremy but decides to shoot herself. She can’t manage it and so takes off the silencer and drops it in the box.
She realizes that she is having her period and feels dirty. She goes to the bathroom and showers. After that she puts on a tampon. She goes back upstairs and dons a clean nightie. She decides to read the Bible in preparation for her death. The Bible she knows is in the main bedroom.
She sits on the floor leaning against the bedside cabinet. She reads some passages and then shoots herself in the neck. She waits but doesn’t die. Blood drips onto the Bible and runs down onto the nightdress. She shuffles forward ruffing up the back of her nightdress. Puts the Bible on her chest and shoots herself again. She slumps back and the Bible falls off onto the floor.
Sheila gouged Nevill's arms ? There is nothing on the COA document about gouged arms. Anyway, Nevill went back to bed with his gouged arms. I assume Sheila was wearing her nightie at this time as 27 year old women don't walk around naked in front of their fathers.
Sheila locks herself in the bathroom for some reason. And wants the full set dead. Which includes Bamber who is at home sleeping 'like a log'. Sheila hardly spoke during supper. Bamber must have really upset her when they spoke in the fields earlier in the day. What a pity he can't remember what they spoke about.
Nevill weakly agrees to ring Bamber at 3.10am & doesn't hear or see Sheila leave the bathroom & go upstairs with a rifle. You have agreed Nevill did not ring Chelmsford police at 3.26am as you are saying things had escalated before then.
Sheila starts shooting June who like Bamber was sleeping 'like a log' despite all the noise.
Despite not hearing/seeing Sheila go upstairs, Nevill hears shots upstairs.
Sheila obviously forgot to bring socks to WHF. Although Nevill has let Sheila wear his socks, she shows no gratitude & starts shooting Nevill. Sheila has now taken off her nightie for some reason & is naked, apart from Nevill's blue socks, holding a rifle.
The evidence is Sheila's upstairs shots into (according to you), an out of bed and wide awake Nevill were from close range. However he fails totally to physically confront Sheila upstairs. Instead rushing downstairs.
After getting downstairs Nevill's watch instantly and magically gets damaged & falls off his wrist. He still doesn't fight back but attempts to get to the phone . A bit late to phone anyone perhaps ?
Sheila then horriffically continually hits Nevill so hard the rifle stock breaks, furniture is upturned, the ceiling light smashes and the aga is scratched.
Sheila then puts the silencer on ? A bit late to worry about people waking.
Sheila then 'imagines' a dead Nevill taunting her. So shoots him again. Then burns Nevill's back for 'a deluded' reason.
Sheila then hides in the gun cupboard, naked apart from Nevill's blue socks, and waits for Jeremy. How was Jeremy going to get inside ?
Sheila decides to have a shower and puts the silencer back in the box. You are saying she used the silencer but not how her blood got inside. Be easier to say it wasn't used at all.
Sheila put on her nightie, which she had previously taken off so she could committ the massacre naked apart from Nevill's blue socks.
Sheila then gets June's bible before giving herself a contact neck shot, although there was no blood splatter in the rifle nozzle.
