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White House Farm murders
The White House Farm murders took place near the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, England, during the night of 6–7 August 1985. Nevill Bamber, a farmer and magistrate, and his wife, June, were shot and killed inside their farmhouse, along with their adoptive daughter, Sheila Caffell, and Sheila's six-year-old twin sons. The only surviving member of the immediate family was Nevill and June's adoptive son, Jeremy Bamber, then 24 years old, who said he had been at home a few miles away when the shooting took place.〔''Times'' editorial. ("Murder most foul, but did he do it?" ), 18 March 2001.〕
The police at first believed that Sheila, diagnosed with schizophrenia, had fired the shots then turned the gun on herself. But weeks after the murders Jeremy Bamber's ex-girlfriend told police that he had implicated himself. The prosecution argued that, motivated by a large inheritance, Bamber had shot the family with his father's semi-automatic rifle, then placed the gun in his unstable sister's hands to make the case appear as a murder–suicide. A silencer the prosecution said was on the rifle would have made it too long, they argued, for Sheila's fingers to reach the trigger to shoot herself. Bamber was convicted in October 1986 by a 10–2 majority, and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years' imprisonment. In 1994, Bamber was informed that he would never be released from prison.〔Peter Hutchison, ("Jeremy Bamber: a profile" ), ''The Daily Telegraph'', 11 February 2011.〕
Bamber has protested his innocence throughout, although his extended family remain convinced of his guilt.〔David James Smith, ("And by dawn they were all dead" ), ''The Sunday Times Magazine'', 11 July 2010 ((webcite )); for extended family, pp. 19–20.〕 Between 2004 and 2012 his lawyers submitted several unsuccessful applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission.〔Eric Allison, ("Jeremy Bamber murder appeal bid thrown out" ), ''The Guardian'', 26 April 2012.〕 They argued that the silencer might not have been used during the killings; that the crime scene may have been damaged then reconstructed; that crime-scene photographs were taken weeks after the murders; and that the time of Sheila's death was miscalculated.〔For the silencer, Eric Allison and Mark Townsend, ("Gun experts raise doubts over Jeremy Bamber murder verdict" ), ''The Observer'', 4 February 2012.
For the crime-scene, Eric Allison, et al. ("Jeremy Bamber: Will new evidence bring historic third appeal?" ), Guardian Films, 30 January 2011, from 08:00 mins.〕 A key issue was whether Bamber received a call from his father that night to say Sheila had "gone berserk" with a gun. Bamber said that he did, that he alerted police, and that Sheila fired the final shot while he and the officers were standing outside the house. It became a central plank of the prosecution's case that the father had made no such call, and that the only reason Bamber would have lied about it – indeed, the only way he could have known about the shootings when he alerted the police – was that he was the killer himself.〔
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