[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

That just seems like self preservation though, she knew they would get around to her eventually, it looks better if you come forward yourself.

Chris still denies that they were seeing each other any earlier though (what difference does it make when they started the affair/why lie about that?) and I believe him because you could see how obsessed he was with her, he couldn't even pretend with Shan'ann once he started this thing with Nichol and I don't for a second believe he would have agreed to have a baby with Shan'ann (which he did) had he already been seeing Nichol. And he was actually asked about those google searches from the year before and he had no idea why she would have done that considering they didn't even know each other back then, nichol wasn't even working in Chris's company then. The only explanation Chris could think of was that she may have heard of Shan'ann because of her online work and presence

You can look at everything she does as self preservation from the moment it kicks off, including deleting stuff from her phone. Even without the guilt of involvement she knows instantly that her life has changed forever, because she was the other women in a family wipeout case, and no one ever comes out clean. She looked up other cases where this happened on that night - including how much money one of them made from book sales.

There's something definitely off about her, but I don't believe she had any involvement in what happened, even just through suggestion.