Jeremy Bamber

Jeremy Nevill Bamber (born Jeremy Paul Marsham; 13 January 1961) is an Englishman who was convicted of the White House Farm murders. He was found guilty in October 1986 of the August 1985 shooting of his parents, his sister, and his sister's six-year-old twin sons at his parents' farmhouse in Essex. Returning a majority verdict, the jury found that, after committing the murders to secure a large inheritance, Bamber had placed the rifle in the hands of his 28-year-old sister, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, to make the scene appear to be a murder–suicide. Bamber is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. As of November 2016 he was one of 70 prisoners in the UK subject to a whole-life order, and is the only such prisoner to assert his innocence. Bamber has repeatedly applied unsuccessfully to have his conviction overturned or his whole life tariff removed; his extended family remain convinced of his guilt. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) referred the case to the Court of Appeal in 2001, which upheld the conviction in 2002. The Court of Appeal ordered full disclosure of evidence to the defence, but this did not take place. The appeal was rejected and the CCRC rejected further applications from Bamber in 2004 and 2012, having not identified any new evidence or legal argument capable of raising a real possibility that the court of appeal would quash the conviction. In December 2019 Bamber's lawyers made a further application for the disclosure of withheld evidence in relation to Bamber's phone call to the police on the night of the killings and a silencer.