My, you get quite agressive and insulting don't you? You need to understand that nothing you can say will affect how I think or what I post. You can say I 'look like a fool' but please don't assume I care what you think.
May I suggest you read what I say instead of inventing your own version?
I did not say that Sheila woke up and then woke Nevill up to go for a chat.
I think it's possible that Nevill never went to bed. Sheila was known to ring her father from London when she couldn't sleep and talk to him into the early hours [CAL book page 111]. It's not ludicrous to imagine that she heard him downstairs and came down to speak to him in the living room where he tended to sit at the end of the day.
If she left him sitting there and went 'to the toilet', for example she would have been able to go and get the gun without him even knowing she was doing it.
I’m merely reading your ridiculous scenarios that you’ve made up in your head, and which don’t make sense
Your suggestions of events do make you look foolish, but as you don’t care about that you shouldn’t get upset with me for saying so...
You may think it isn’t ludicrous to imagine Nevill sitting alone for hours in the sitting room, and for Sheila to suddenly awake and decide to go down to “chat with him”, but you’re not thinking logically
Besides Sheila being tired and exhausted from her medication, and it’s established she was in bed, why would Nevill be sat downstairs for hours, alone? His regular routine was to shower in the evening; pour himself a G&T, and sit having a cigarette before going to bed. He went to bed relatively early, say, around 11:30pm as he had to rise early to start work on the farm.
Photos prove he had slept in his bed that night, so again, your imaginary story doesn’t add up
If for any reason Sheila did want to speak to him in confidence, she had all the time and opportunity to do so during the next day. All you’ve highlighted is that Sheila was extremely close to him — so much so she was able to speak to him at length on the phone — so why on earth would she want to shoot dead her father who protected her, helped her, gave her advice, and doted on her too?
You’re also going against your usual argument that Sheila had suddenly gone “berserk”. Had she been going berserk they could have hardly sat having a long conversation could they?
And your suggestion that Sheila said she was going to the loo so she could pick up the gun and lock herself in the bathroom is equally ridiculous. For one thing, there was no gun laying around.
I don’t believe for one moment that Jeremy had taken it out the gun cupboard at around 9pm because he thought he heard rabbits. Besides not enjoying shooting and being a bad shot, he was extremely lazy. Had he truly heard rabbits, which in itself sounds odd, he’d not have taken time to get the rifle and try and shoot them.
He had been working all day; was bored to tears; lazy as hell — and wanted to get home.
He even asked Nevill if he’d collect the last bake of hay that night, so why would he spend time trying to shoot rabbits which he had no interest in rather than shooting off in his car?
And why load it with a full round of ammunition just to try and kill one or two rabbits?
Neither do I believe for a second that he left that loaded gun on the settle — or in the kitchen — depending on which lie of his you want to believe. Even he wouldn’t be that irresponsible, and what's more, Nevill would most definitely have spotted it there and immediately locked it away in the gun cupboard just as he always, always did. We know for a fact Nevill spoke on the phone to his secretary after Jeremy left, so are you suggesting Nevill didn’t see that long loaded rifle while he was in the kitchen? Or when they were stacking the dishwasher after dinner? You’re saying none of them spotted that rifle laying there?
And are you suggesting Nevill would have left a loaded firearm on the kitchen worktop or settle when his two six-year-old grandsons were there? You could hardly miss it. And he would have seen it had it been on the settle because he locked all the doors at night.
Jeremy HID that rifle before leaving WHF.
Jeremy took that rifle, loaded it, took extra ammunition, and hid it in a cupboard — it’s obvious.
Jeremy never heard rabbits
Jeremy never walked out in front of his family holding that rifle saying he was off to shoot rabbits
He was a burglar, a thief, and a liar. He sneakily hid that rifle somewhere, knowing Nevill would have no idea it had been taken out the gun cupboard.
And when Jeremy retuned later, he went straight to that hiding place, picked up the gun and quietly made his way up the stairs...
