Catsontoast
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I finally managed to finish watching the Billie Jo documentary and then did some reading (including Sion Jenkins' own Web page protesting his innocence) and I believe he did it after flying into a rage.
Though I agree that the timeline does seem a little implausible, his behaviour; his admission of using physical punishments to reprimand his daughters; his wife's allegations of violence; his language (I agree with the person who said his words are reminiscent of someone well versed in methods of exerting coercive control)....all lead me to believe in his guilt.
The 999 call when he insisted she'd fallen-he claims he didn't want to believe the horrific reality but it sounded like he was trying to play down the severity of her injuries.
Sitting in his car while the ambulance was trying to find a place to park. I accept that people can and do act strangely at times of great trauma but come on, you've come home to find your daughter with her head stoved in and you're worrying about putting the roof up on your car in case it rains? Sitting inside the car when you don't even need to to put the roof up and all while the paramedics are attending?
His admission of using items to inflict punishment - a slipper, a ruler... Why not a tent peg if it were to hand and you were in a temper?
His friend remembering him being violent to Billie, his wife immediately saying she'd talk if he was charged, his denial of his wife's allegations on the grounds of her being a left-wing social worker ("a woman like that couldn't possibly allow herself to be a victim of domestic violence." Yeah, right, because that's how it works...)
A real nasty piece of work IMO.
Though I agree that the timeline does seem a little implausible, his behaviour; his admission of using physical punishments to reprimand his daughters; his wife's allegations of violence; his language (I agree with the person who said his words are reminiscent of someone well versed in methods of exerting coercive control)....all lead me to believe in his guilt.
The 999 call when he insisted she'd fallen-he claims he didn't want to believe the horrific reality but it sounded like he was trying to play down the severity of her injuries.
Sitting in his car while the ambulance was trying to find a place to park. I accept that people can and do act strangely at times of great trauma but come on, you've come home to find your daughter with her head stoved in and you're worrying about putting the roof up on your car in case it rains? Sitting inside the car when you don't even need to to put the roof up and all while the paramedics are attending?
His admission of using items to inflict punishment - a slipper, a ruler... Why not a tent peg if it were to hand and you were in a temper?
His friend remembering him being violent to Billie, his wife immediately saying she'd talk if he was charged, his denial of his wife's allegations on the grounds of her being a left-wing social worker ("a woman like that couldn't possibly allow herself to be a victim of domestic violence." Yeah, right, because that's how it works...)
A real nasty piece of work IMO.
its bad enough he was only sentenced to 7yrs,and her, fully complicit, received 2 yrs but got out well before her time also. Cruel callous evil pair. What is wrong with our sentencing here?!!! It's unbelievable how you can murder a child or allow someone else to and receive a few years behind bars, then you've got a potential terrorist jailed for 55yrs for planning an attack which never happened. Yes if it had that'd be horrific, and I understand would involve more lives lost than this little boys life, however a killers a killer and it takes a pure breed of evil to kill their own offspring. Doesn't his life mean a thing? Why shouldn't these so called parents receive the same sentence? As surely killing minors is the lowest you can go. Not at all downplaying a terrorist attack on a big scale I know they are truly horrific crimes. But so too are child killers and the pitiful sentencing laws here in the UK are shameful
