Agreed, It has gone on faaaaaar toooo looong.
But we were reminded that he's now only 12, so only 11 (or maybe 10) when he killed Lucy.
It wasn't pre-meditated, and viewers have been led to believe he didn't really know he'd done it for some time. If it was one thump and she was dead .. then that's a fight between siblings that's just got a horrid ending. The cover up is the shocking thing. And the extent of it. Which I think we've all said by now half the square are complicit in the cover up.
But the attack on Jane was a vicious attack - by a 12 year old with untreated anger issues - he has to be punished.
I don't even believe they were talking about bail. He's just bludgeoned his mother nearly to death with a hockey stick!
the police need to ask why he'd changed his clothes, take some statements from people in the pub and then look for this jewellery box.
He needs treatment for his anger and rage.
How sorry are we supposed to feel for Jane? Has she bought it on herself by having covered up Lucy's death?
Stacey is probably the sanest person on the square at the moment!