The prosecution claim that JB used June's bike to get to and from WHF to avoid detection. On this basis it shows he is taking some preventative measures to avoid detection and weighing up risk v reward.
JM claims that JB had talked of killing his family over many months and had tested more than one scenario in his mind eg drugging and a fire. On this basis it shows JB spent some time fine-tuning his evil plan.
It is further claimed by the prosecution he entered WHF by a window he was able to enter and exit undetected.
Was it possible for JB to have a contingency plan and early orderly exit if it all went horribly wrong in the early stages?
If he entered via the window (a familiar entry with family members) there was the potential for noise from opening the window and/or stumbling by mistake and/or the dogs barking etc. He gets in undetected then has to move about in the dark again avoiding any noise while removing the telephone from the cradle in the kitchen and gathering the gun and ammo (and silencer !?) which may have been where he claims he left them or in any other location if moved by others. Next he is tasked with moving upstairs to deal with arguably the greatest threat to his plan, controlling/killing NB. I do not know whether June and NB slept with the bedroom door open, closed or ajar? However it seems to me that up until this juncture if his plan went awry eg NB woke and/or others, JB could orchestrate an orderly exit by claiming that he was unable to sleep due to a sore throat/headache and was looking for some remedy as he had run out at Goldhanger. He could explain the gun in his possession by saying he thought he heard an intruder. Bizarre though it might sound he would know that anyone would struggle to demonstrate attempted murder at this juncture. Think OP.
Surely JB, a crack shot, would listen out for breathing/snoring as he crept up the stairs? If all was well ie no movement from the main bedroom he would gently open the door, if closed/ajar, and (POINT OF NO RETURN) disable/kill NB before he had an opportunity to leave his bed? The problem with this scenario is it does not afford an opportunity for the phone call from NB/JB's alibi of sorts. If NB was shot and killed in bed it would then prove difficult to stage NB's body in the bedroom as though he had made a phone call from there. If SC was going beserk with a gun anyone would be hard pressed to believe NB would make such a call lying down in bed or even sitting up in bed? (phone by NB's side of bed?) JB could have ordered/allowed NB out of bed and killed him in the bedroom to facilitate the phone call/alibi from the bedroom? Why did he waste vital seconds shooting June before disabling/controlling/killing NB?
He could also have taken further preventative measures to ensure he could control the situation by removing/hiding exit door keys. And disabling the phone in the office instead of the kitchen (only one phone line in WHF meaning one phone off the hook would disable others) and locking the office door (if lockable) or making access difficult in some way giving him vital seconds to shoot a victim if they escaped. Easier to control the office and office phone with one entry point as opposed to two in the kitchen?
Surely the grand plan would be to shoot all victims in their own bed with the exception of NB who JB would order/allow NB out of bed and kill him in the bedroom to facilitate the phone call/alibi from the bedroom? SC could be staged from her own bed. If she got up he would simply order her back to bed. After all there's no evidence that she resisted being shot twice in the main bedroom?
Regardless of any of the above it makes no sense to me why JB would not stage the bedroom phone rather than the kitchen phone? Why he would not disable the office phone rather than the kitchen phone? And more importantly why he would waste vital seconds shooting June in the bedroom before controlling NB?
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I don't think there was any chance of a caught Jeremy saying he could not sleep & had travelled to WHF to look for some sleeping pills. Or of Neville believing him. Especially if Jeremy was holding the gun.
Jeremy was going there to achieve a successful msssacre. Or fail trying.
