I don't understand your point, if you don't believe he received a call from Neville, why are you talking about him 'wasting time'? Presumably (in your opinion), all at the house had been killed so what time was being wasted? It could ONLY be considered as wasting time if he DID receive a call from his father i.e. his father calls sounding 'terrified' and he looks up the station number – which would mean he wasn’t guilty! Now, which is it? If he made up the call from his father, why would he make himself look as though he were time wasting? This part of the guilty argument (for me) makes absolutely no sense whatsoever
Since it seems I am outnumbered by the Jeremy supporters and am frequently castigated for my Mills and Boon mentality I was attempting to put myself in the shoes of those who believe Jeremy to be innocent and therefore a man who has spent 27 years in jail for a crime he did not commit. I was going along with Jeremy's story ridiculous as it still sounds to me,and in this scenario of course the minutes wasted flicking through the telephone book or the Yellow Pages were a complete distraction and waste of time as all Jeremy needed to do to summon help was to dial 999.
Of course the above scenario is a farce,because if Sheila has gone crazy with a gun,or words to that effect an ex RAF man like Ralph(Nevill)Bamber is not going to waste time dialling a 7 figure number to Jeremy(and how do we know that he knew that number off by heart?) when the surest way of summoning assistance is to dial 999 himself. Nevill may have been a bit of a control freak,all the more reason why he would telephone the Police,some of whom he must have known personally being the local magistrate. All evidence points to there being no telephone call from Nevill to Jeremy,there are Nevill's bloodied finger marks on the kitchen worktop as if he attempted to reach the telephone,but no blood on the telephone itself. All the indications are that this telephone call was just a pretext to bring the Police to the farm and to provide Jeremy with an alibi,and most of Jeremy's behaviour and utterances from that point were a complete act and a tissue of lies.