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• 3How Jeremy Bamber massacre still shocks and fascinates 35 years on
• Fine for what it is, but it’s not what I hoped it was
• White House Farm murderer Jeremy Bamber seeks to overturn conviction with new evidence, lawyers say
• Episode 4: The Police
• Jeremy Bamber and Girlfriend Julie Mugford at the Funeral of His Family Members
• Appeals
• Murder-suicide theory, crime scene
• Episode 2: The Family

And I think early on she participated in various petty crimes that Jeremy was committing, and quite enthusiastically. It must’ve been very exciting for someone who probably had lived a pretty staid and boring life. And he comes along and he’s drawing her into this almost Bonnie and Clyde exciting world.

3How Jeremy Bamber massacre still shocks and fascinates 35 years on

The whole grim story concludes on Wednesday evening with the finale of a six-part ITV drama called simply White House Farm. Yet while police quickly declared it a case of murder-suicide committed by Caffell – a former model suffering schizophrenia – others soon started to have suspicions about her brother Jeremy. A famous piece of news footage showed the former public school boy struggling through his family’s funerals, his faced etched with apparent grief. But, says Colin Caffell, ex-husband of Sheila and father of the murdered twins, as soon as the cameras stopped rolling, Bamber’s whole demeanour changed. So certainly his little organization, his little lobby group and many of the people who support him clearly have watched it forensically and posted lots and lots of stuff on social media, picking holes in it. They got on all sorts of platforms where you can rate TV shows, screaming in capital letters, “1 out of 10.

Fine for what it is, but it’s not what I hoped it was

Upstairs Nicholas and Daniel were found dead in their beds while June and Sheila's bodies were in the master bedroom. The scene had been made to look like a murder-suicide, with his sister Sheila Caffell, who had schizophrenia, initially thought to have carried out the killings before turning the gun on herself. In January 2020, ITV in Britain broadcast a television miniseries called White House Farm, which was based on the events on that fateful day in 1986 and starred the ex-girlfriend of Prince Harry. These links to the British monarchy marked just the beginning of the strange turns that this case would take. Photo by PA Images via Getty ImagesThe Essex farmhouse at Tolleshunt D’Arcy near Maldon where Jeremy Bamber shot his family. This is the tragic true story of the White House Farm murders.

White House Farm murderer Jeremy Bamber seeks to overturn conviction with new evidence, lawyers say

The lawyers also claim Essex Police tampered with the crime scene before pictures were taken. If you're interested in reading up on the real-life case Colin Caffell's Inside the White House Farm Murders unpicks the true story. However, the turning point was when his former girlfriend, Julie Mugford (Alexa Davies), changed her police statement and recounted how Jeremy had planned and executed the murders, revealing that he had previously spoken about his desire to "get rid of them all".

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Thirdly, you can say, “Oh, well, it’s important to hear every side of the story,” but I think once we were completely convinced that he was guilty, I certainly didn’t want to give him any kind of a platform. In October of the following year, her younger brother Jeremy was convicted of the murders and will remain in prison for the rest of his life. Then 24, it seems he killed everyone before placing the shotgun in his dead sister’s hands to look like a murder-suicide. Detectives initially missed that Sheila couldn’t have reached the trigger to shoot herself.

Jeremy Bamber and Girlfriend Julie Mugford at the Funeral of His Family Members

It’s simple.” Ron is adamant that Jeremy did it, but even he admits there are some things about what happened in that farmhouse that night which even he can’t quite piece together. He still to this day can’t make all the pieces fit. That really intrigued me, that perhaps this show wouldn’t be like most dramatized crime shows, where at the end there’s a straightforward, simple answer. The series is based on true events from 6 August 1985. Five members of the Bamber-Caffell family are shot to death at White House Farm, Essex.

So, I guess that I agreed with the team on that score. I must admit, there’s part of me that would’ve been very curious to meet him. But whether that would’ve been a positive thing, I’m doubtful. For a start, Jeremy is now a much, much older man who has lived most of his life in maximum security prisons. In some ways, I don’t think we would’ve been meeting the same person that committed those crimes anyway. Secondly, my take on him is that he’s manipulative, and I think to that extent it would also have been potentially counterproductive.

Murder-suicide theory, crime scene

Bamber has always denied the murders, claiming Ms Caffell was responsible. This assessment of Bamber’s innocence is reinforced by filmmaker Louis Theroux, who created a documentary about the White House Farm murder, and told Sky News that he also believes Jeremy Bamber is innocent.

Bamber is now 59 and serving life in prison at HM Prison Wakefield in Yorkshire. He maintains his innocence and, according to the BBC, has an active group of supporters who believe that he didn't get a fair trial. In June 2020, the High Court refused to grant Bamber access to documents that he believed could clear his name. His lawyers claimed that the Crown Prosecution Service (an agency for conducting criminal prosecutions) did not disclose material about a second silencer found at the farm, which his legal team argues could overturn Bamber's conviction. Previously, Bamber also had an appeal dismissed in 2002. Some people will point to that stuff and say, “Oh, well that just suggests that he’s not really guilty,” but I don’t agree.

Police watching the footage were also not convinced by his teary performance. Neither, for what it’s worth, were many people viewing it on that night’s news. “I remember seeing Jeremy Bamber at the funeral and feeling uneasy about the way he was behaving,” Mark Addy, the actor who plays Detective Sergeant Stan Jones in the new drama, said earlier this week.

This podcast is about making & filming the show as a whole and the episodes of the podcast do not match up with the show’s episodes as one might assume they would. I found the insight interesting, and I might come back after I’ve watched the whole show because I love Lauren BP, but I did get spoilered since I didn’t know the full story of the murders, and it’s not what I hoped for. Because this had traces of Caffell’s blood on it and because experts agreed she could not have placed it in the cupboard after shooting herself, it cast doubts on if she was really the killer.

According to Bamber, his father phoned him, saying, "Your sister's gone crazy and she's got a gun." Bamber said that after the sound of a shot, the line went dead. Bamber was found guilty of murdering his adoptive parents, sister and her twin sons after all five were found with gunshot wounds at their Georgian farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, on 7 August 1985, when he was 24. It was Sheila's adopted brother, Jeremy Bamber (played by Freddie Fox), who first called the police to the farm.

I think what it shows is someone who’s impulsive in a way that’s not always cleverly thought out. He is prone to acts of, as I say, rather wanton cruelty. I think it also suggests a sort of a splintering, if you like, in the guy. I think there are inconsistent and very almost diametrically opposed impulses that he seems to me to be wrestling with at different times. And I think they often lead him to do things that seem either inconsistent or seem to undermine his own goal. We approached Colin in the hope that we could both option the book and ask him to be involved and be a consultant.