Jeremy Bamber

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Jeremy Nevill Bamber (born Jeremy Paul Marsham; 13 January 1961) is a British man convicted of the 1985 White House Farm murders. The events, which took place in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, involved five victims: Bamber's adoptive parents, Nevill and June Bamber; his adoptive sister, Sheila Caffell; and his sister's six-year-old twin sons. The prosecution had argued that Bamber committed the murders to secure a large inheritance, then had placed the rifle in the hands of his 28-year-old sister, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, to make the deaths appear to be a murder–suicide. The jury returned a majority guilty verdict. Bamber is serving life imprisonment with a whole life tariff, meaning that he has no possibility of parole. He has repeatedly applied unsuccessfully to have his conviction overturned or his whole life tariff removed. His extended family remains convinced of his guilt. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) referred the case to the Court of Appeal in 2001, which...

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