I've followed a few cases on Websleuths but I've always felt that there was healthy debate and opinions from both sides, and we discussed theories and disagreed with each other respectfully! Even in the case of little Mikaeel Kular being murdered by his own mother! <modsnip> Most people have already decided who's guilty and who should rot in Hell and that includes unborn lives for some!
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I'm honestly shocked at how convinced and venomous some members are in their opinion of Shauna's guilt and don't understand it when we've had so little proof of it yet. Many going on the evidence given by a friend of Jamie Ireland, not even Jamie himself - who's to say it wasn't Jaydene and Karl arguing that night?
I wonder if in some part the knives are out for Shauna because Nathan has already confessed, I wonder if he too had pleaded not guilty to all if the focus would be off Shauna and on him.
No matter what, it is never a Blessing for babies to die.
What is making me suspicious of SH's involvement is the kidnap story. If NM had planned to kidnap Becky to take her to a wooded area and teach her a lesson, I really can't see how he could have pulled that off with SH and their child at the house. If SH wasn't involved at all, then surely he would have carried out that plan when he was alone. Would you really kidnap someone and have them in the boot of your car, with your girlfriend and child in the car at the same time? After letting your mother know that you would be at the house with your intended victim ..... at around the exact time she is going to "go missing".
For me, the kidnap story has more of a believability about it if it was a plan to kidnap Becky for sexual purposes by the pair of them - basing this on their texts and the fact that 2 stun guns had been purchased.
Obviously I have only seen what the media has published, so can only theorise based on that - and from putting those pieces together, I think that Becky's death might have been a sexual assault/attack that went wrong, whilst the child was watching CBBC downstairs. I think everything turned into a panic after she died, as it wasn't planned that way.
The kidnap story is 'better' from NM's point of view, than admitting to his mum and stepdad that he was trying to rape Becky or assault her.
I don't believe SH's story at all as it makes little sense and has far too many bits of 'luck' in it - she spent exactly the right amount of time in the garden with the child, in the rain, for NM to do what he did. She just happened to fall asleep and miss all the goings on regarding the moving of the body parts. She wasn't at all suspicious that her partner went out buying an excess of cleaning products, cling film and bin bags, and a new saw, at exactly the time his stepsister was missing. She suddenly decided out of the blue to visit her estranged family for the first time in years, just when the police wanted to search their house, and so on. She doesn't find it odd that her boyfriend spends the best part of 3 days locked in the bathroom, not letting her in at all, even when she needs to go to the toilet. And even little details like when a call has been made from her phone, she is telling police that he was the one using it. Its like there is an answer for everything, as if its been rehearsed between the two of them. In some ways their stories slip up with timings, in other ways, the details match so closely that I do wonder if they have prepared them together. Like others, I still don't understand why NM would be willing to take all the blame, unless it was his idea and he has suddenly found a conscience when the enormity of what he did hit him.
I'm aware that there probably needs to be a lot more hard evidence to give a jury reason to decide without reasonable doubt though. But I'm just explaining why I don't automatically believe she is entirely innocent - but I totally believe that everyone should be assumed innocent in the eyes of the law, until proven guilty.
If she really was that clueless regarding all the goings on, I still can't shake the opinion that she suspected something, but cared more about keeping NM than doing the right thing for Becky.
