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But re Tom and Triona's post I am trying in my head to summarise what we know about him, and what we know about him that is new since trial started.
-he became agitated in police car on the night he states he killed Jason Corbett. Maybe he was just cold.
-He did not like Jason, in fact he hated him. Did this hatred bring about Jason's murder? How much did it contribute to it?
- He visited Jason's house pretty frequently and he accepted his hospitality frequently, all previous threads share posts about these visits..
- he took from a man he hated.
That means one thing for me
he is dishonest.
If Tom does not like "rowdy" Irish, can you imagine how he feels being the father of a bipolar imperfect daughter who even had a public tantrum at her own fancy wedding? ( Tracey Lynch testimony at custody hearing)
Who swings from depression to mania to rages at unpredictable times? Pompous uptight Tom must have found his own child humiliating, infuriating.
This is the daughter that went from the hospital to Ireland, according to Maginn's book, and TM had no inclination to check on the welfare of his princess for four years. Just....be...gone.
My view on TM is changing. On one hand, I don't think he would have minded Jason moving back to Ireland as long as he took MM with him. TM did not want to retire and have his bipolar daughter, the chaos and expense of her, back on his hands. With the children gone, she'd be even worse. She has no job skills. Alimony would not keep her housed and clothed in the style she had come to demand. I think TM was very emotionally invested in keeping this marriage going, not for his Princess...but for his own peace and financial security.
We have also seen hints about a financial motive. Till now, I've thought that was mostly about Molly. But suppose that transfer to TM was a loan? Maybe during the DC trip Jason told TM that with his company being bought out, he was moving back to Ireland and wanted that loan repaid. Jason was a businessman, remember.
Maybe TM had been fuming about this recall of the loan.
Maybe TM jumped in the car to go down there and confront Jason with his own building rage.
I think they all argued and JC got disgusted and went to bed. I think MM stayed up, drank, went in and hit Jason with the brick in the bed, screaming as she did it. TM heard her, grabbed the bat...maybe just for self defense...but when he got up there and saw Jason, weak and staggering, his own rage kicked in.
TM did not fly into a rage protecting the daughter he ignored for four years. He might have flown into a rage thinking he'd have her back on his hands again and have to repay an old loan.