Jeremy Bamber: fresh doubt cast on key evidence used to convict family killer

By Andrew Hough Published: 7:30AM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Bamber, 49, has regularly protested his ignorance over his impasse in the 1985 crime. Photo: PA

Crucial justification opposite to crook Bamber, who murdered five members of his adoptive family in their Essex farmhouse in Aug 1985, is being reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission, the management that investigates miscarriages of justice.

Campaigners claimed the new research of photographs taken from the crime science, that appears to expel disbelief on his conviction, could lead him being liberated after roughly a entertain of a century at the back of bars.

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Bamber, who has regularly protested his innocence, was found guilty in Oct 1986 of sharpened his adopted parents, Jun and Neville, his sister Shelia Caffell and her six-year-old twins, Daniel and Nicholas.

At initial it appeared that Miss Caffell, who had a story of schizophrenia, had murdered the family afterwards committed suicide.

But guess incited to Bamber after his partner pronounced he bragged of his goal to kill his relatives and pick up an estate of scarcely �500,000.

Bamber, right away 49, was described by the decider at his strange hearing as "evil over belief"" and Michael Howard, afterwards Home Secretary, ruled that he should never be expelled from jail.

The jury at Chelmsford Crown Court were shown photographs of blemish outlines on the underside of a layer shelf, that the charge pronounced were the outcome of a aroused onslaught in between Neville and Bamber.

But a new research of the military negatives, carried out by Peter Sutherst, a detailed expert, has unclosed inconsistencies in the detailed evidence.

Mr Sutherst, an consultant with 50 years experience, pronounced the blemish outlines allegedly caused by Bamber on the night of the shootings could have been finished some-more than a month after the White House Farm killings.

The jury was shown a close-up picture of the scratches on the underside of a mantel shelf on top of the kitchen"s Aga cooker, close to where Neville"s physique was found.

He had been shot eight times in the head and neck at close range.

Mr Sutherst"s research of photos taken of the crime stage on the day of the attempted attempted murder showed no snippet of the marks, pronounced to have been finished by a silencer propitious on the attempted attempted murder weapon, a .22 Anschütz semi-automatic rifle.

"Here was justification that Jeremy Bamber in all luck had not finished the deed," Mr Sutherst told the Observer.

"It is utterly transparent from the reformation I finished that the outlines don"t crop up in the strange crime stage evidence.

"Having finished that, you pull your own conclusions as to where and when that happened. It starts to turn an wholly opposite box altogether."

Scott Lomax, writer of book on the killings, said: "I would design Bamber to travel free by the finish of the year."

Andrew Hunter, the former Democratic Unionist MP for Basingstoke, pronounced the new sum acted "very acid questions".

"I think this is a distressing premature birth of justice," he said.

The CCRC will right away confirm either Bamber"s box should be referred to the Court of Appeal formed on the new research as well as formerly undisclosed military records and justification from a debate specialist. Two prior appeals, in 1997 and 2002, failed.

Speaking from Full Sutton Prison nearby York, Bamber said: "This is what I have been watchful scarcely twenty-five years for."

A CCRC orator reliable that a "detailed submission" containing new justification had been perceived last week and was being investigated.

"We will patently have to see at the submissions and examine them really carefully," he said.