How Libby Squire, from High Wycombe, died remains a mystery
“However much you are reassured that the prosecution don’t have to prove this or that, not being able to prove how the victim died, not being able to prove she was killed, these are two fairly big caveats in a murder case. “It means one of the crucial aspects of the case, whether she was killed, perhaps the most crucial aspect of the case, the prosecution are forced to rely on inference, on carefully constructed arguments, on theories, in reality, to persuade you of what happened.” But prosecutors told the jury that they did not need to establish how she died.