Yes, as I wrote to Myster, I'm probably wrong.
I do still struggle with Nevill/Ralph's position, perched on the edge of the chair, though. To me, it looks like he was placed after rigor mortis set in, because it's an impossible position. His knees would have given way, and he would have fallen to the floor.
We'll probably never know.
Seems unlikely given the highly undignified photo of him on the blue floor of, I assume, the Pathologist's lab (in which he seems to have acquired blue and white floral shorts/boxers - any theories on why his trousers were down?) - he'd have been an incredible weight to manoeuvre and clearly they didn't manage it well when they removed him from the body bag. I think looks like the largest 'Captain's Chair' was already lying sideways on the floor and then he appears to be straddling the uppermost side of the back of it, so that would have kept his pelvis the same height as the coal scuttle and his spine would have formed an arch between the two, given his weight would have prevented the chair from pushing back, and the angle his head was in the scuttle would stop that from sliding forward.
Pic I'm thinking of is here
http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=1047.msg29947#msg29947It clearly isn't where the chair is meant to be: in the tidied up photos it's to the right of the Aga, a more convenient corner, because where it was found in the crime scene photos, if he liked to sit there he would have been blocking the door and also whoever was cooking's access to what looks like a dishwasher. So if the chair was on the right of the Aga but was knocked over sending it to the left of the Aga, it's a bit strange that it is lying on the side it is - I'd expect it to be knocked over with the back pointing towards the dishwasher, just as the other chair is knocked over in that direction. It suggests the two chairs weren't knocked over at the same time. It also looks impossible for a policeman to get right Nevill and the chair to get to the stairs without disturbing the scene.
Another odd thing is that Nevill appears to be on top of a spread-out pair of pressed trousers, any thoughts? Could he have been getting dressed in the kitchen to go out to attend to a calf? and another odd thing is that looks remarkably like 2 cushions one on top of each other next to his head, yet only the lower one has blood on it. The white town has blood soaked into it in several places, almost like it was used to tend to a wound.
And in the photo I put up for the lampshade problem: what are those white dots on the floor to the right of the picture: are they bullet casings?
I find it curious that the chair to his right is knocked
forwards, it's actually quite hard to do.
