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29 October 2011

FYIA

Criminal Cases Review Commission

5 St Philip's Place

Birmingham

B3 2PW

Letter by email to:complaints@ccrc.x.gsi.gov.uk

Hard copy by Recorded Delivery

Dear Sir/Madam,

Re:                  R v Bamber 1986 IPCC Case number 2011/015691

I write to you due to my grave concerns regarding recent information I have received which I have reason to believe will prove that the trial of Jeremy Bamber and subsequent appeals were tainted.

Documents intended for Public Interest Immunity (PII) were ‘inadvertently’ sent to Jeremy Bamber.  It is clear that these documents were intended never to be in the public arena for reasons which will be made clear upon reading them.

Jeremy’s most recent sixteen page letter to me provides an in-depth account of what he has found within these documents.  Jeremy’s letters are handwritten.  He writes in detail including reference and exhibit numbers and he has the written evidence to support every statement he makes.

I believe it is crucial that this information is placed in your hands as it shows beyond doubt that Jeremy’s trial was tainted; that witnesses perjured themselves also that Essex Police and others including the City of London Police falsified or withheld evidence which would have supported Jeremy’s continued pleas of his innocence.  Jeremy states on more than one occasion, ‘I have the documents to prove it’.  The following in red italics are direct quotes from Jeremy’s letter and of his findings within these documents

‘COLP (City of London Police) discovered that Glynis Howard and her assistant Leslie Tucker; John Hayward and his assistant, Andrew Palmer; Brian Elliott and his assistant, Louise Float and Malcolm Fletcher all signed a set of falsified documents for a second sound moderator to create a chain of evidence paper trail capable of deceiving the jury and it did.......I have their lab notes.’

‘They(sound moderators) are both the same, Parker-Hale MM1 type and someone simply took SBJ/1 out of its cardboard tube packaging and slipped in DB/1 that had been contaminated with red paint from the scene.

‘And in any event they admitted this to COLP in 1991 but COLP and Essex Police just covered it up under PII.  John Hayward took photos of SBJ/1 on 12th Sept ’85, well him and his assistant Andrew Palmer, COLP showed these photos to Brian Elliott in 1991 and asked, “Is that the same sound moderator you examined?” 

Elliott replied as follows;

‘Well, the one I examined had red paint flakes impacted into the pattern on the knurled end.  Also, the one I examined had a large piece of adhesive tape with flakes of red paint stuck to it, that was stuck along the sound moderator as you can see in the drawing my assistant made on 25/Sept/’85.’

Jeremy adds, ‘and you can see it’.

‘Everyone examined the sound moderator under a microscope as well as by eye and it’s clear that the first one SBJ/1 had blood on it and this smear of red paint and the second one DB/1 was switched with SBJ/1 after being sent to the lab on 20/Sept/85.’

‘I can prove every word of the above – I have all the PII primary documents showing exactly how my relatives and Essex Police and the forensic scientists at Huntingdon and COLP and PCA (now the IPCC) all worked together to either directly corrupt the sound moderator evidence or actively assisted in concealing that Essex Police found SBJ/1 and it was switched between 20th and 25th Sept ’85 at Huntingdon Forensic Laboratory with DB/1 that had been used to scratch and score the kitchen mantle shelf at White House Farm to falsely implicate me as a murderer. ....I have the documents showing that it was.......These are the document references: Exhibit signed by Glynis Howard, Malcolm Fletched, John Hayward and Brian Elliott:- ‘Police Crime Number’ SC/786/85, ‘Description of Article ‘Silencer’ DB/1, crossed out, and DRB/1 in brackets:- Serial Number 22, as the identification marker.’

I would plead for justice here.  Jeremy has been imprisoned for twenty six years for a crime which can only have been carried out by someone of a deranged mind and for which he has always maintained his innocence even to the extent of taking a polygraph test along with twenty seven psychiatric tests, all of which found no evidence of mental ill health or psychopathy. 

After reading this evidence, to incarcerate him for a day longer would constitute an act of the most heinous kind adding further to the injustice of what must be the longest known miscarriage of justice on British soil.

It is not an unreasonable request that this matter be treated with the utmost urgency and I await your response.

Yours faithfully,

Cc COLP, IPCC, Theresa May Home Secretary, Kenneth Clarke Justice Minister, John Whittingdale MP.