A point-by-point summary of the case for Reasonable Doubt

[Erik Narramore]

Sheila was found with the rifle.

Sheila was the only one not shot multiple times.

Sheila was mentally-ill.

Sheila seemed clean, except for blood, suggesting she had ritually washed herself.

There was a struggle in the kitchen.  Nevill would struggle with his daughter for the gun and try to reason with her, rather than simply knock her out as he would with Jeremy.

The hand swab tests were unreliable.  Sheila could have had gunshot residue on her hands that deteriorated.

Her nightdress was not tested for gunshot residue.

In the event, it is possible that due to the ammunition used, there would have been no gunshot residue anyway.

The rifle barrel was not examined for blood.  The FSS relied on a simple pull-through test.

The silencer was not found by the police and the blood found in it could not be confirmed as Sheila's, it is only that the blood group is the same.

No blood was found in the den or the gun cupboard, or in the cardboard box in which the silencer was claimed to be found by the relatives.

The blood did not drip down the full length of the silencer, despite being moved around and upturned and initially found at a 45-degree angle.

David Boutflour admits tampering with the silencer.  He also claims he tried to unscrew the end cap but couldn't, despite the silencer being in use for nine months at that point and periodically dismantled and cleaned, thus not 'factory-tight'.  Lead defence counsel, Rivlin, Q.C., later demonstrated that it was a simple matter to unscrew the silencer's end cap.

Paint was found on the silencer in the knurled ribbon at the muzzle end, meaning that if the silencer caused the scratches, it would have to have been held flat to whatever surface was scratched while attached to the rifle.

Two different silencers appear in the FSS General Examination Records, and the silencer demonstrated by Chris Whiddon is not the same model as the silencer that the prosecution claim was found in the gun cupboard.

Sheila's fingerprint was found on the rifle and there were other incomplete fingerprints on the rifle.

Sheila had a history of violence.

The house was locked from the inside.

Jeremy had no history of violence.

Julie had been jilted by Jeremy before she changed her statements to the police, and nobody can confirm her claims about Jeremy.

To commit the murders, Jeremy would have had to return home after a day of manual labour, then return to the farmhouse unseen, enter and leave without any forensic trace of having done so, then return to home again unseen, then make his calls to the police.  He would have had to stage a call from White House Farm to Goldhanger, then return home, shower and change, then make the phone call, all within 30 minutes.