I don’t think JMF innocently believed the drowning story. He told the police Preston was sat up vomiting when he arrived when the medical evidence is that Preston was unconscious & perimortem so there was no chance that story is true.
Ahh yes I forgot about that actually. I (for me) feel like a lot of JV’s evidence has definitely overshadowed JMF’s involvement. His accounts or interviews just aren’t sticking in my head like JVs do.
Okay, I’m back to thinking he told him during the phone call - remind me please how long between the phone call and JMF getting home? Because if Preston had already passed at the point of the phone call they wouldn’t have been able to get a pulse back at the hospital right? Or would the timings allow?
Or is it more likely Preston was still alive at the phone call but not recovering like he has previously and JV has rung JMF in a panic?
Or has he rung him, told him what he’s just done and Preston is “recovering” but then he’s assaulted him again in the time between the phone call and JMF getting home?
I feel like if they sorted the story on the phone then things would have been staged better? But maybe I’m getting the timings wrong?