Jeremy Bamber ‘filled with hope’ as he claims new evidence over mystery phone call will free him from jail
JEREMY Bamber, the man jailed for the White House Farm murders, said he is “filled with hope” as he claims new evidence will free hm.
Bamber, now 60, is serving a whole-life sentence for the murder of his adoptive parents Nevill and June, both 61, his sister Sheila Caffell, 26, and her six-year-old twins Daniel and Nicholas in 1985.
He now believes he has “multiple grounds” for an appeal with new evidence over a mystery phone call as well as evidence the trial jury were “misled”.
His case was submitted to The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) on Wednesday who will now consider whether it should be referred to the Court of Appeal for a second time.
Bamber’s solicitor Mark Newby said: “Mr Bamber is going back to the CCRC because he got a significant amount of fresh evidence to show the conviction is unsafe.
"It is now for the CCRC to decide.”
The evidence is thought to include records which show a call was made from Nevill Bamber’s phone to his son 10 minutes before Jeremy called the police.
Mr Newby said: “If, as a result of the fresh evidence, it is accepted there were two calls, including one call from his father and one from Jeremy, then it is an impossibility for Jeremy Bamber to have been at the scene at the relevant time to have committed the offences.”
The solicitor claimed there were eight grounds for the appeal, which include claims Essex Police tampered with the scene and cops saw signs of life in the house while they were outside with Bamber.
Bamber claims his adopted sister Sheila, who suffered from schizophrenia, murdered her family before killing herself.
Detectives initially believed his version of events until relatives found a silencer at the farm which was said to contain her blood.
The case against Bamber became stronger when an ex-girlfriend of Bamber’s told cops he had discussed killing his family.
The new CCRC application is based on 347,000 pages of evidence that were recently released under a 30-year-rule, the reports.
In January this year Bamber claimed he had the “ultimate alibi”.
Speaking from his prison cell in Wakefield he said: "It is the ultimate alibi that I was in the company of dozens of police officers when it was clear that a person or persons were alive in the house who I am convicted of murdering."
It is the third time Bamber has sent an application to the CCRC, which rejected his case in 2012.
The Court of Appeal also rejected a request for a hearing in 1989.
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The CCRC referred the case in 2002 and he was granted an appeal but it was later rejected.
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Bamber was caged for life in 1986 in a top security prison without the possibility of parole.
ITV dramatised the notorious killings in Tolleshunt D’Arcy, near Maldon, Essex in a series called White House Farm which starred Freddie Fox.
