9. It is plausible that Sheila could have done this (though I have to say, it is at the lower end of the range of plausibility).
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Brancher, can you give your breakdown of how Sheila committed the massacre.
Obviously you need to include 1/2 phone calls, a kitchen fight, one rifle load, two reloads and 26 shots. I trust you know where the cartridges were.
A breakdown of Jeremy committing the massacre has already been done, which matches the crime scene evidence.
Not forgetting that Sheila was weak, frail, lacked coordination and strength; was shaky, disorientated, and could barely move or hold anything due to the Haloperidol in her system — which toxicology reports proved.
Another big problem for Jeremy was when he was on remand his defence team brought in a firearms expert to do an exact reconstruction loading the bullets of the actual murder weapon.
Freddie Mead, the firearms expert hired by the defence went to the laboratory in Huntingdon on the 29th April, 1986 where the murder weapon was kept.
He was asked to examine the photographs of the bodies, X-rays, crime scene, and study the clothing, the rifle, silencer, bullets and cartridge cases.
He was then asked to do the reconstruction with the rifle.
Freddie Mead said, “I loaded the the cartridge into the magazine without touching the bullets (as requested), which was all fine and good — yes, you can do it, but it’s contrived. You’ve got to put the base of the cartridge case in and then press it and slide it down without touching the bullet itself, which isn’t easy. Once you get up to the ninth and tenth cartridge it’s damn near impossible.”
The defence team gave Jeremy this deeply disappointing news, which clearly didn’t make him a happy bunny.