Plot holes? Spoilers.

They did explain that. This was inflicted as a (one time) punishment for failing to repay the loan shark

Yet the disabled guy never mentions it? Murder victim suffers a serious injury and he neglects to mention this? He is up for murder and he never points out that the victim had been tortured by someone else shortly before? I got the fact that Trevor Eve's character inflicted the wound through lack of payment, that's not the issue - the issue is that no one else involved ever mentions it.

Eric wasn't disabled at the time of his male sexual encounters.

I know - was merely using the description in order to specify who I was referring to.

Also, the hand injury (nail through the finger) wasn't that recent.

It wasn't a nail through the finger - that would be a hole in a phalange - this was stated as a hole through the scaphoid, a carpal bone - the bones where the hand meet the wrist. I've broken the scaphoid in both my hands - as they are floating bones they are incredibly hard to fix, my left hand had a cast on it for four months and I was told to expect surgery, this was for a fracture, in the program it had a nail driven through it and was in two completely seperate parts - when I did it my hand swelled up like a balloon for a good couple of days and I couldn't do simple things like doing up zips for a couple of weeks - the injury in this potentially split the bone in two, it's an injury that you are going to notice. Also there was not a large time frame involved - it is at most two days. Jimmy had the fifty pounds that he borrowed in order to pay back the loan sharks, which he has earned through legitimate work. This money is then stolen from him by the neo nazis girlfriend, Lizzie. The Nazis friend who is an ex drug addict (think his name was Alan Mackay) who they interview confirms that this was done a couple of days before the murder (he states that when the nazi robs the victim he went on a drugs bender and when he came back a couple of days later the victim had disappeared) - the victim only couldn't pay back the money because it was stolen, by the Nazi who did it a couple of days before he died - which means the nail through the hand HAD to have occurred during those two days - because it was the only time he was without the money. Which means that within 48 hours of having a nail driven through the back of his hand he is up and about and having sex with the disabled guy. And the disabled guy makes no mention of this.

He had little reason to lie - he was going to be locked up for accessory anyway.

He had every reason to lie - he was going to be locked up for murder - as an accessory his sentence could be as little as three years, meaning out in eighteen months - he would be looking at life for double murder. I would say that's a pretty good reason.

Considering that each murder occurred shortly after her giving birth

I would say that there is a gigantic leap from 'suffering from post natal depression' to 'double murder'.

the entire interview with her having the flash backs of seeing her husband with Jimmy

Assuming of course the flash backs were real - there were also certainly no flashbacks of her murdering Jimmy. This is a woman whose so deranged that she informs the police to the whereabouts of a body she murdered.

We can't be sure about the bruised eye, as to what happened.
It was never revealed - maybe she bumped her head, maybe the oldest son did something.

Fair point - although it is very heavily implied with the level of fear from the wife and the fact it is shown directly before the violent outburst from Eric when he sweeps his dinner of the table.

And the confrontation he had with another man was said to have been sparked by a quarrel over sports teams. He didn't "nearly beat anyone to death"

that was Erics explanation - which if he was the murderer is hardly reliable. They interviewed the victim of the beatings sister - she stated that the victim had told her 'he was convinced, that if that police officer hadn't been passing then Eric would have beaten him to death' - which sounds pretty serious to me. That's more than a punch up over sports - and don't forget even Eric admits that this wasn't the reason for the fight in the end - he admits he was he was having sex with the guy and that 'he liked it a bit rough' and the police simply accept this without question! Apparently the passing policeman is incapable of discerning the difference between a punch up and rough gay sex!

if he had, they wold have locked him up for it.

Again, this is explained - the sister states that the victim refused to turn up to court to testify because of the stigma of being gay - as the attack occurred outside a gay pub it would be clear it was a homophobic attack therefore outing the victim. He was charged with the assault - which is how they track down the sister - but not convicted as the victim would not testify.

You might want to rewatch this. Looks like you missed a bunch.

Such as? What did I miss with regards to evidence of the wife being guilty - other than the testimony of the husband?

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