G'morning all!
Just caught up on all the posts since last night and having gone to bed with a million thoughts about this going around in my head, have woken up with just one main thought, which is that I think we are possibly being too clever. I think that the most obvious answers are most likely the right answers as the people involved appear not to be the smartest of people and are possibly used to behaving dishonestly as a matter of course.
Fr'instance: an incident occurs in which Tia Sharp dies (not sure that I think it was premeditated), so perhaps she was introduced to drugs by SH and had a very bad reaction. If he was also using at the same time, maybe his thought processes would be addled (if they weren't already) and he did the first thing that came to mind, not necessarily the cleverest: he wrapped her up and put her in the loft. Who knows - perhaps the neighbour was also part of this 'party?' and saw what happened and helped put Tia up in the loft?
G'ma comes home and SH tells her Tia is out shopping - the first thing that comes to mind that removes her from the estate and allows for the possibility that she will later go 'missing.'
Supper time comes and goes - no sign of Tia.
Not sure I was convinced from the interview that a fair was ever visited, but if it was, G'ma may have gone along in good faith looking out for Tia.
No sign of Tia, so they go home to check once more before heading to NS and then have put themselves in a situation where they have to call (and most likely want to - apart from SH) the authorities as by now it's after 9pm (or at least that's what I gathered from the interview).
Body still in loft.
At what point now that the house is constantly inhabited by G'ma and other members of the family plus police/ press can SH do anything about removing the body?
I think he was surviving on hope rather than any thought out process and was just fortunate in the first few days that nothing was discovered. Also, if he was drugged at the time of the 'incident,' it may somehow have become a dream-like memory for him, where he was dissociated from the part he played, which also lessened the guilt, so that he was able to some extent, play the role he had carved out for himself. (Never taken a drug so have no idea what they do...all guess work).
If a visit was not made to the fair, then we have NO proof that G'ma colluded. I think at this point she may have begun to realise more about the situation and spoke with someone about her concerns. Maybe she and DS together said something. Plus, as people have mentioned, there must have been a stench in the air, hence the final search which was brought forward.
I don't think it was any more complicated than that.
Now I am exhausted and need to put the kettle on.
