White House Farm murderer Jeremy Bamber seeks to overturn conviction with new evidence, lawyers say
Lawyers acting for notorious killer Jeremy Bamber have sent dramatic new evidence for review in a bid to overturn his conviction, according to a new report.
Bamber was convicted and sentenced to life in prison more than 35 years ago for the White House Farm murders in Essex, in which he killed his entire family.
Among the victims were his adoptive parents, June and Neville, his sister Sheila Caffell, and her six-year-old twin sons, Daniel and Nicholas.
Bamber has always protested his innocence, insisting it was his schizophrenic sister, Sheila, who shot and murdered the family before turning the gun on herself.
According to The Mail on Sunday, a defence dossier sent to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) contains 10 new pieces of evidence, according to Bamber’s lawyers.
They say the evidence raises questions over a gruesome key detail highlighted by the judge at Bamber’s trial.
According to the claims, burns on the father’s back were not caused by the hot part of a rifle, as the jury was told in 1986, but by a hot kitchen AGA cooker.
Bamber’s legal team says this evidence was key in securing his conviction.
The lawyers also claim Essex Police tampered with the crime scene before pictures were taken.
The latest development comes more than a decade after the CCRC refused another appeal by Bamber.
The CCRC told the newspaper: “We have received Mr Bamber’s application, and a review is ongoing.”
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Essex Police said: “In the years that followed (the killings) this case has been the subject of several appeals and reviews by the Court of Appeal and the Criminal Cases Review Commission – all of these processes have never found anything other than Bamber is the person responsible for killing his adoptive parents Nevill and June, sister Sheila Caffell and her two sons Nicholas and Daniel.
“Essex Police have continued to comply will all legal requirements in this case, and will continue to assist the CCRC as required.”
