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Saturday, 31 May 2014

Jeremy Bamber: Blood on Sheila's feet

                  

Taken from: Daily Mail 12 October 2013                                   

Highlight edits P.A.M

'Does this macabre picture prove Jeremy Bamber is innocent? He is the only full-term lifer who refuses to admit guilt. Now, a former MP investigates new evidence over murders that shocked the nation.

  • Bamber, 52, was convicted of murders of his adoptive parents, his sister Sheila and his two six-year-old nephews in 1985
  • Bamber says Sheila, a paranoid schizophrenic, suffered psychotic episode and carried out murders before turning gun on herself
  • Police say Bamber committed crimes as gun was fitted with silencer, making it too long for her to shoot herself
  • Police: If she'd gone on rampage her feet would have been covered in blood, which they said was not the case
  • Ex-MP Andrew Hunter: Bamber’s lawyers have picture of bloodstained feet

A notorious prisoner is the victim of one of the worst miscarriages of justice in modern times and should have his conviction overturned, a former Tory MP argues in a compelling new book.
Andrew Hunter says that Jeremy Bamber, who has spent more than a quarter of a century in jail for shooting dead his adoptive parents, his sister and his two six-year-old nephews, has been the victim of ‘questionable’ police evidence.
Mr Hunter, who has been working on the Bamber case for the past ten years, says he has come across previously unconsidered evidence which suggests that the prosecution was seriously flawed.

Clue: Jeremy Bamber says this picture shows blood on his sister Sheila's foot
Clue: ... blood on...Sheila's foot

Furthermore, the former Basingstoke MP argues that recent revelations of police corruption – including the cover-up of the Hillsborough stadium disaster and the controversy over the resignation of Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell and the ‘Plebgate’ row in Downing Street – reinforces his demand to take a completely fresh look at the case.
Bamber, now 52, was convicted of the murders at the family’s farm near Maldon, Essex, in 1985 by a 10-2 majority jury verdict.
He has strongly insisted on his  innocence ever since – but until now has lacked such a high-profile public advocate of his case. 
Bamber (left, in 2002) has spent more than a quarter of a century in jail for shooting dead his adoptive parents, his sister and his two six-year-old nephews. He says his sister Sheila (right), who was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, suffered a psychotic episode and carried out the murders before turning the gun on herself.
Bamber says his sister Sheila, who was a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, feared having her children taken into care, suffered a psychotic episode and carried out the murders before turning the gun on herself.

But the police argued that Bamber must have carried out the murders because the gun had been fitted with a silencer, which made it too long for her to be physically able to shoot herself. The police also said that if she had gone on a rampage her feet would have been covered in blood, which they said was not the case.
Now Mr Hunter says that after a  25-year fight, Bamber’s lawyers have obtained a picture of the feet – which shows bloodstains.


Parents Nevill and June Bamber
And his defence team have also received new forensic results which suggest that burn marks on the back of Bamber’s father, Nevill, had been made by the muzzle of a rifle without a silencer.
In addition, his team say that even if the gun had been fitted with a silencer, it would have been possible for Sheila to have shot herself.
They have used an actress with the same length arms as Sheila to demonstrate that she could still have reached the trigger.
Mr Hunter says he has also unearthed evidence that the silencer produced as evidence in court had been claimed to have been found three days after the killings when, he alleges, it had actually been found nearly a month later.
He believes that the alleged extra time could have been used to add ‘scratch marks’ on the silencer, to back up claims – later used by the prosecution – that Jeremy Bamber had been involved in a confrontation with his father while trying to carry out the killings, which had led to  marks on both the silencer and a wall in the house.
Mr Hunter argues that crime-scene photographs prove that additional scratches appeared on the wall in the days after the crime was committed.
Police had initially worked on the theory that Sheila, a model known as ‘Bambi’, had been responsible.


Bamber, now 52, was convicted of the murders at the family's farm near Maldon, Essex, in 1985 by a 10-2 majority jury verdict

But they then put Bamber at the centre of the investigation after his girlfriend, Julie Mugford – whom he had two-timed – claimed he had confessed to her his plans to hire a hitman to murder the family.
She named the hitman, but he turned out to have a cast-iron alibi and was released. Two years ago, Bamber’s legal team thought they had made a breakthrough when a recently unearthed police phone log recorded a call on the night of the killings from Nevill.
The log, entitled ‘daughter gone berserk’, said that Mr Bamber had said his daughter had stolen one of his guns and gone ‘berserk’.
However, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) declined to  refer the case to the Court of Appeal – which has turned down Bamber  twice – saying that it had not identified any evidence that raised a possibility the court would overturn  the conviction.
Bamber is the only one out of 38 prisoners in England and Wales serving a whole-life sentence who still protests his innocence.
The case has caused unease in legal circles for years because the verdict was not unanimous and there was no direct forensic evidence linking him to the crime.

The prosecution relied heavily on motive and character, arguing that Bamber was ‘greedy’ and ‘arrogant’, and had set up his sister to appear to be the culprit because he was motivated by the prospect of inheriting the £436,000 family fortune and considerable land.
Sentencing him to life imprisonment, the judge, Mr Justice Drake, described Bamber as ‘warped’ and ‘evil, almost beyond belief’.
Now Mr Hunter, MP for Basingstoke from 1983 to 2005, argues in his book, Beyond Reasonable Doubt, that the evidence relied on by the prosecution was full of contradictions.
He says that he expects the new forensics to form part of a third appeal attempt. ‘I think we are looking at one of the worst miscarriages of justice in recent times, and there is compelling evidence that much of the evidence provided by the police and others was unreliable,’ he said.
‘I’m afraid the police did dreadful things back then. Don’t forget the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four.’
Mr Hunter, now 70, was a classics teacher at Harrow School until entering Parliament in 1983. As a Right-wing member of the Monday Club, he does not fit the more usual Left-wing profile of political  critics of the police: in 2004, shortly before stepping down from the Commons at the 2005 General Election, he joined the Democratic Unionist Party.

Bamber was put at the centre of the investigation after his girlfriend, Julie Mugford - whom he had two-timed - claimed he had confessed to her his plans to hire a hitman to murder the family
Bamber was put at the centre of the investigation after his girlfriend, Julie Mugford (both pictured), whom he had two-timed, claimed he had confessed to her his plans to hire a hitman to murder the family - a claim that was later proved false

Mr Hunter first became interested in Bamber’s case while still serving as an MP, when he signed a Commons motion raising doubts about his conviction. Bamber wrote to  Mr Hunter to thank him, and  the two men started corresponding frequently, with Mr Hunter paying visits to him in Full Sutton prison  in York.
Campaigners working to free Bamber have set up a website which includes regular blogs by the prisoner, based on letters written to his supporters by Bamber.
In the most recent posting, on September 29, Bamber wrote: ‘Today is like all the others, as I wake in jail having completed 28 years wrongfully imprisoned. Now I begin year 29, a new day, a good day, one that none of us will ever see again.’
Bamber hinted at Mr Hunter’s findings in a June posting, saying: ‘I wanted to write a short piece about all the work that has been done to resolve matters regarding my wrongful imprisonment, both in proving my innocence and in proving that Sheila took her own life after killing our family.
‘We now have all the raw data that’s key to resolving every aspect of the case, facts and figures extracted from three-and-a-half  million pages of case documents.’
Former Tory MP Andrew Hunter (above) says Bamber has been the victim of 'questionable' police evidence
Former Tory MP Andrew Hunter (above) says Bamber has been the victim of 'questionable' police evidence

Bamber has kept a low profile in prison, apart from the time he was forced to defend himself with a broken bottle when a prisoner attacked him with a knife. He received 28 stitches on his neck following a second attack by another inmate.
Bamber was the son of a vicar’s daughter who had an affair with a married Army sergeant. He was adopted by Nevill and June Bamber aged six weeks.
Privately educated, at the time of the murders he was just 24 and living in a cottage owned by his father three miles away. Seven years ago he took and passed a lie-detector test. He has seen numerous therapists and psychiatrists in his time in prison, none of whom has suggested that he is mentally unstable.
His legal team have also highlighted what they describe as other flaws in the original trial, including the fact that a bloodstained Bible, found by Sheila’s side and open at pages containing Psalms 51-55 – a section relating to the struggle between good and evil – was never forensically examined nor produced at trial, despite repeated requests from Bamber’s solicitor.
Photographs also showed a handwritten note sticking up from between the pages of the Bible reading ‘love one another’ – the same words that were on a banner on a wall in a room in Guyana when 909 people died in a mass murder-suicide.
And it has emerged that shortly before her death, Sheila’s ex-husband, Colin Caffell, wrote to Nevill expressing deep concern about her mental state and asking him to ‘try and convince Sheila that it would be better for her and the boys if they stayed with me most of the time’.
But when Bamber told his trial that Sheila had feared losing her children – which could have triggered one of her psychotic attacks – he was accused of making it up.
Last night, a spokesman for the CCRC said: ‘We have no current application in relation to Mr Bamber’s case.’
A spokesman for Essex Police said: "Essex Police has no comment to make on these claims given that Jeremy Bamber’s conviction has been the subject of several appeals and reviews by the CCRC and there has never been anything to suggest he was wrongly convicted." '
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456759/Jeremy-Bamber-Do-macabre-pictures-prove-innocent.html   

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The theme of Jeremy's trial and conviction was around greed and acquisition of wealth and property, that's true - but not his greed: For a clearer picture, take a look at this video. The Money Trail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YppVCocVbI&list=PLNY9PYnfJaGLOOAyQv2dpGlA7x_mYrNfu

Monday, 24 March 2014

Jeremy Bamber: Watertight Alibi

Copyright Jeremy Bamber Campaign http://www.jeremy-bamber.co.uk/alibis-1



Jeremy is completely innocent of this crime as these statements show. Evidence suggests that Sheila Caffell was downstairs in the kitchen, she had possibly already shot herself once there, she fled upstairs where she was 'officially' found. The evidence below shows that Sheila appears to have moved from the kitchen to the bedroom.

White House Farm had three staircases, it seems very likely that Sheila was unconscious in the kitchen when the police broke into the house and they left her unattended. She then regained consciousness and went upstairs to the master bedroom where she shot herself and died.


You must be asking, how did Jeremy get blamed for the killings if the police knew Sheila was alive? Remember that the original Inspector on the case Taff Jones was adamant that Jeremy was innocent. He knew the truth, that the firearms team had bungled the raid on the house, they  probably had failed to notice that Sheila was still alive with one gunshot wound to the tissue in her neck (the pathologist confirmed in court that this first shot wouldn't have killed her and that she would have been able to walk around with this injury.)

The police then drafted in large numbers of officers for police training exercises where they used Sheila Caffell to practice taking the gun on and off of her body. This is shown in the photographs. This is the secret Essex police have tried to hide for 26 years in the name of British Justice.

If the officers had realized she was still alive then maybe they could have saved her life. Sadly Taff Jones died in an accident at his home before the trial. His pocket book has never been released to the defence. Also remember that the original documents from the first case number (the murder/sucide) have been withheld from the defence.

The following is evidence which is presented in chronological order put together like this you see how clear and compelling the evidence is which shows that Jeremy is innocent without question.


Nevill’s Call to Police (03.26) and Jeremy's call to police (03.36)

Jeremy has always maintained that his father called him to tell him that Sheila had a gun and he wanted him to come over. It has now been proven that Jeremy was telling the truth as his father DID call the police. The fact that the police failed to disclose both Jeremy and Nevill's call to them prevented Jeremy from getting a fair trial. The jury should have been made aware of both calls.
Click here to read more


PC West's Statement regarding Jeremy's call (03.36)

In his 8th August 1985 statement he says "I then spoke again to Mr Bamber and told him that a police car was attending his fathers address from Witham. I also asked him to attend and liase with police officers on his arrival, this he agreed to do" The car which had already been dispatched as a result of Nevill's call to the police was sent at 3.35 (CA07), PC west organized for a second car to be sent - (CA05) which was owing to Jeremy's call.

Bews, Myall & Jeremy see movement in the window (after 03.45)

When Jeremy and the police arrived at White House Farm they saw movement in the master bedroom. Below is an extract from PS Bews trial transcript:

Rivlin: "Do you remember at some stage early on, this happened that one of you Police Officers said that you thought you could see a shadow and you all jumped?"

Bews: "Yes, that is when we first went to the house with Mr Bamber. We had gone round what I thought was the back. We had seen the kitchen door with the light on. We then went into a field which is at the side of the farm house and went went round to where what is - - I believe the front door is and above that is a window. As we moved away I thought we saw something else move, a shadow, something like that. We looked up and after looking for a couple of minutes I was satisfied that it was a - - perhaps a part in the glass that just shone the light slightly as you looked at it."

Rivlin: "It could have been a trick of the light?"

Bews: "I think it was a trick of the light"

It has been stated in a recent interview by Sgt Bews that the movement was just 'the moon' However, Saxby's police statement maintains that PS Bews along with PC Myall and Jeremy "came running back from the direction of the farmhouse and PS Bews contacted information room and requested armed assistance and gave a situation report" Did Sgt Bews really call the firearms team out as a result of seeing a reflection of the moon? During the 80's firearms teams would only have come out if the police were seriously threatened by armed persons. If this was a trick of the light - what light source caused it? It was still dark at this time and the moon was on the other side of the house. This was a lone house in a rural area there was no light from external sources. In addition Geoffrey Rivlin QC clearly did not question the witness properly, in this extract the Defence barrister is actually making the suggestion that the witness didn't see a shadow at all but a trick of the light. One of the key features of miscarriages of justice is often poor legal representation. PS Bews recently altered his story again for the ITV Tonight programme shown on the 29th of March 2012, he said in this version that Jeremy noticed the figure in the window. This implied that Jeremy was leading officers into thinking they saw something, however this has never been suggested in any of the case documents or at trial as you can see from the above transcript. We will leave you to draw your own conclusions about the movement in the window. ITV also misled viewers by suggesting that the firearms team were called out before they saw the figure in the window, which is incorrect.

PC Myall Major Incident Report (03:45)

Myall reported seeing an 'Unidentified male' at this time which ties in with the figure moving in the master bedroom. At court this was dismissed as being a 'trick of the light' Discrepancies between which rooms had lights on (between 04:00 and 07.34) There were a number of contradictory reports from different officers stating which rooms were lit therefore suggesting that the lights in the house were on and off at different times which would be consistent with Sheila Caffell being alive in the house when the police were outside.

Message Log (05:25)
There is evidence to suggest the police having been in conversation with Sheila Caffell ‘Firearms team are in conversation with someone from inside the farm’ It has been suggested this is referring to Jeremy Bamber, but he was referred to by his name or 'the son' and not as an unknown person. Nor was he 'inside the farm' In all instances ‘inside the farm’ was repeatedly used by the police to mean ‘inside the farmhouse’.

Statement of WPC Jeapes (after 07:30)
She says that she saw the rifle leaning up against the window frame of the tiny room between the master and the twins room which were connected by doors, this was between 07:30 and when she left the scene at 09:00. How did this rifle move from the window to Sheila’s body if she had been killed by Jeremy Bamber before 03:30 as the prosecution stated. The same rifle was seen lying on her body by 08:30 and mysteriously at 10:20 the same gun was back in the window of the main bedroom where she was found. The police never made any reference to the gun in this small room, and there is not a single photograph of this room in the crime scene photographs which is very curious.

Statement of PC Brown (after 07:00)

He also details what he believed to be a gun in the window of the small room off the master bedroom, supporting the evidence of WPC Jeapes. How could sightings by two firearms officers, who were located separately and both watching the house using the telescopic sight of a firearm be mistaken about seeing the gun in the window?

In his statement DI Cook said that the first time the rifle was moved from Sheila was 11:10 the photographing started at 10:00 and finished at 10:50. Statement of PC Hall (07:00 to 07:34)

Hall states that PC Collins “reported that he could see the body of who he thought was a woman in the kitchen” before the firearms team broke into the house. PC Hall also states later when they broke into the house "I immediately heard a noise upstairs and began to challenge up the stairs I was covering, I was calling to Sheila Bamber to make her whereabouts known to me."

Statement of APS Manners (after 06.45)

Manners states that PC Collins looked into the kitchen through the window before they broke into the house and “reported seeing what he thought was the body of a female just inside the kitchen door.” Nevill Bamber was found to the centre of the room by the aga.

Manners also states later when they went upstairs to the master bedroom that Sheila Caffell had blood ‘leaking from both corners of her mouth.’

There are also photographs of Sheila still bleeding at the scene and further pictures taken at the mortuary show even more blood had flowed from her mouth and nose and was widely spread onto her face.

Message Log (07:37)

“One dead male and one dead female in Kitchen”

Message Log (07:40)

“The police entered the premises and found 1 male dead and 1 female dead.” We also see at 8:10am on the same log, that the police found a further three bodies upstairs. This clearly contradicts the official line that they found one male downstairs and a further four bodies upstairs.

Extracts from DS Davidson’s pocketbook (07:45)

He states that he was told it was ‘one murder and one suicide’ which suggests that there were only two bodies found at this point and that they were both in the kitchen together. (This would support the above Message Log (7:40 am). If the police had found one body downstairs at this point, why did they report a murder and suicide and not just one murder? We see that by 8.42 he was told it was 4 murders and a suicide.

It must also be noted that the firearms team did not search upstairs at the front of the house until after 07:55
 
PC Hall between 07:34 and 08:15

One of the first officers in the house part of the firearms group said that he had heard a noise upstairs, and yet the noise was put down to another officer who was not directly above the room, he was in another room at the top of another staircase on the other side of the house, the raid team said they used stealth in their approach. He said: “I immediately heard a noise upstairs and began to challenge up the stairs I was covering, I was calling to Sheila Bamber to maker her whereabouts known to me.” Many of the raid team stated that they expected to find Sheila alive and armed.

Police Message Report (07:48)

Request for the police surgeon to examine ‘two bodies’ at the scene – this suggests that the police had found Sheila and Nevill in the kitchen, and reported this before moving upstairs.

PC Wright (after 09:00)

“I believe that the gun had been removed from the body of Sheila when I saw her” he states. Officially the gun was not supposed to have been found lying on Sheila Caffell and was not removed until the photographing process had finished at 10:50. In his statement DI Cook stated that the first time the rifle was moved from Sheila was 11:10am.

Statement of DS Jones (09:15)

Sheila was mysteriously now in the bedroom, Jones describes her as having ‘blood running’ from her body – so we know that she can’t have been dead for very long, certainly not for seven hours or more.

DI Millar’s Pocketbook (09:30)

On describing the scene in the master bedroom he states: “In same room far side of bed daughter with .22 rifle by her right side” And yet Sheila Caffell was supposedly found with the rifle lying on her body where it stayed until after the photographing process which started at 10:00am so how can this be?
 

Sunday, 10 November 2013

Jeremy Bamber: The Money Trail

 Copyright of "Jeremy Bamber Campaign."
 
 
 
 
For the first time, the Jeremy Bamber campaign can detail the thread of money and finance that has bound together to imprison Jeremy, an innocent man, for the best part of the last 30 years. This comprehensive video highlights many details that have remained hidden until now. For further information on all the issues raised and the latest news on the case, go to the official Campaign websites at www.jeremy-bamber.co.uk and www.jeremybamber.org

Friday, 21 December 2012

Jeremy Bamber: Flyer


Jeremy Bamber
 

IS INNOCENT


IMPRISONED FOR 29 YEARS FOR A CRIME HE COULD NOT HAVE COMMITTED

Find out more about why, visit his official site and know the TRUTH

Friday, 14 December 2012

Jermy Bamber: Appeal rejection

Although I despise the negative terminology used in regard to Jeremy in much of the press, I do believe that public opinion is valuable and whilst Jeremy remains in the media there is hope that people will read the real evidence which shows beyond all doubt that Jeremy could not have committed the murders for which he has been unjustly imprisoned for twenty seven years.

In order to change public opinion, first you have to gain their attention.

 Poppy Ann Miller

 

Tolleshunt D'Arcy: Bamber vows to fight on after latest appeal rejection

Tolleshunt D'Arcy: Bamber vows to fight on after latest appeal rejection Tolleshunt D'Arcy: Bamber vows to fight on after latest appeal rejection 
              
Jeremy Bamber has vowed to fight on after losing a High Court bid to have his case reviewed.
Bamber, 51, was jailed for life in 1986 for the murders of his parents June and Nevill, his adopted sister Sheila Caffell, 27, and her twin sons Nicholas and Daniel at the family farm in Tolleshunt D’Arcy.

Bamber has always protested his innocence claiming it was Sheila, who was a schizophrenic, who killed the family before turning the gun on herself.

Bamber is calling for a third appeal against his conviction.

However, the Criminal Cases Review Commission refused to refer his application.

Bamber’s legal team challenged the decision and applied for permission to seek a judicial review.

However, last Thursday, at the High Court, his application was refused by Sir John Thomas, president of the Queen's Bench Division, and Mr Justice Globe.

SEE THE STANDARD FOR THE FULL STORY
http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/search/?page=1&searchpattern=Jeremy+Bamber
 

Monday, 19 November 2012

Jeremy Bamber: 28th November 2012 - EU Grand Chamber Appeal

Attrib: Written and edited by Jeremy Bamber
On the 28th of November 2012, the European Grand Chamber will hear the appeal against my whole life tariff along with two other cases, Vinter and Moore.
Firstly I need to clarify what this case is actually about. Many people have assumed that if my case in the Grand Chamber is won then my tariff would be put back down to the original 25 years set by the trial judge. This is not the case. What my legal team has applied for is for a review to be inserted into my mandatory whole life sentence.


It is my position that the UK Government is in breach of Article 3 and article 5 (4) of the European Convention on Human Rights by imposing a whole life sentence without review, this amounts to ‘inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.’ But what does this actually mean?

In light of the January ruling that whole life tariff's are not in breach of human rights law, the only appropriate submission my legal team could make to the Grand Chamber is that there is no problem with a government applying a mandatory whole life sentence, but the breach of Human Rights Law lies within there being no mechanism for review of the prisoner’s whole life sentence. It is then asserted, (and it is also my particular view) that a whole life order then becomes parallel with a death sentence. To order someone to die is to permanently exclude them from society and it then follows that to sentence a person to whole life imprisonment is also permanent social exclusion. Social death is a dimension of the slavery which replaced death in Classical society, and was and still is intrinsically linked to loss of liberty. [1] As I have stated many times, I have been sentenced to death by old age.

This leads us to the psychological state of those incarcerated for whole life without reviews. It has been clarified by psychologists including those assessing me that I am at continued risk of having depression brought about the prolonged environment of prison.[2] I am in total agreement about life without hope, after all hope is what keeps the human spirit alive and without hope there is nothing. For me, even with the insertion of a review there is still very little hope of release. If the Grand Chamber rule to allow me to have reviews there is no knowing at what point a review could be placed, it might be at 30 or 40 years into a sentence. As I have maintained innocence, there lies the other difficulty of reviewing my prison term in light of this. Because I have maintained innocence I have not taken part in any rehabilitation programmes and neither can I be viewed as a prisoner who has gained atonement. The judiciary and review boards see me as being in denial of guilt. So when the European Court of Human Rights ruled against my appeal at Strasbourg in Janurary 2012, the three dissenting judges emphasised that Article 3 was being infringed and their words rang true for me, “equally importantly depriving him of any hope for the future, however tenuous that hope may be.” Tenuous, really is how I feel about this ruling even if we win in the Grand Chamber. After this digression, nevertheless the argument my lawyers have put forward is that this treatment, taking into account psychological effects does amount to inhuman and degrading treatment. To this I have to agree wholeheartedly, respect for ‘hope’ an essential dimension of human dignity does underpin the protection of human rights. [3]

In the USA and China the death penalty still exists in contrast to Canada where there is no death penalty and no whole life sentencing. The USA, similarly to England and Wales currently has the sentence of ‘Life Without Parole’ (LWOP) and in Florida the US Supreme Court commented broadly on the destructive impact of this sentence “It deprives the convict of the most basic liberties without giving hope of restoration.[4]

If you have always felt that England and Wales are soft on sentencing then think again because the statistics show otherwise. The position is that all majority state parties of Europe rule that life sentences must have reviews.[5] Only England and Wales and Hungary have an authentically irreducible whole life sentence, England and Wales with almost 21 times more life sentenced prisoners than any other single European country and We currently have more whole life sentence prisoners than all of Europe put together. [6] The first whole life tariff in the UK was set in 1988, and in 2003 reviews at executive discretion for these prisoners was abolished (under a Labour government).[7] Although Scotland’s sentencing is generally similar to England and Wales their human rights laws were brought into line with Europe at the time of the devolution of powers.[8]

Whole life tariff prisoners cannot be subject to a prerogative pardon. The only mechanism for release of a prisoner (other than to overturn their conviction) on a whole life sentence in England and Wales is granted in exceptional circumstances, where the prisoner is medically incapacitated with death to occur within 3 months and no life sentence prisoner has ever been released under this or any other power in England and Wales. This exception compounds the view that a whole life sentence is literally a death sentence.[9]

As I am not guilty of the crimes I have been convicted of carrying out, where do I fit in all of this? Currently the only avenue to appeal is through the politically controlled quango of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. When this avenue is exhausted because the commission has usurped the role of the appeal courts and is in violation of the Criminal Appeals act 1995, and non disclosure of evidential materials still prevails, surely this is a violation of both Article 3 and 5(4) of European Human Rights Law, and should be taken into consideration when assessing whole life sentences. As crime is intrinsically tied to sentencing it is axiomatic that the problem of Miscarriage of Justice cases could be expanded within this framework simply because a Miscarriage of Justice in UK law does not allow for innocence but only a “miscarriage of due process.”[10]

If we are to believe the statistics quoted by Dr Michael Naughton as opposed to the Government’s ‘massaged figures’ we face a very worrying situation indeed. Naughton reveals that there are no less than 18 convictions a day over turned in the UK which is an astonishing figure warranting a full review of the causes of wrongful convictions.[11] Indeed Naughton himself states: “miscarriages of justice as understood from the perspective of the legal system are not the exception to the rule, rather they are a routine and even mundane feature of the criminal justice process.”[12]

It is of course, with my own conviction and these statistics in mind when I consider what a whole life sentence means to the individuals living a ‘social death’ as I do each day. But whatever happens on the 28th of November this year it will make little difference to my current life, release for me with my conviction intact means no life at all. There is only one freedom and one hope for me and that is that the truth of my innocence will be heard in a court of Law allowing me the liberty I have been fighting for.

[1] Patterson, O. Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982
[2] Dr Anderson Report, 2006
[3]“reintergrationist” versus “exclusionary” types of imprisonment, Dolovich, pg 13 & 122; Life Without Parole, Ed Ogletree and Sarat, NYU Press, 2012. Absence of a “dignity tradition” comparative study USA, Europe, pg 19 & 282-310, op cit.
[4]Graham v Florida 130, S.Ct. 2011, 2021 (2010) at 2027 & Naovarath v State, 105 Nev. 525, 526, 779 P.2d 944 (1989), at pg 4 &40
[5] http://treaties.un.org & UN report on Life Imprisonment (1994)
[6]Stats prisoners serving life or IPP http://www.justice.gov.uk/downloads/statistics/prison-probation/omsq/omsq-q1-2012.pdf, The Howard, Newsletter of the Howard League for Penal Reform, Summer 2009, http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/prisons/& Hansard, Baroness Stern at Col 448 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/
[7]Provisions of CJA 2003
[8]Convention rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001 c.7
[9]PSO, 4700, para, 12.2.1
[10]Naughton, M. Rethinking Miscarriages of Justice, 2012 edition, Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp 21-24
[11]Daily average in Crown Court, CACD (including referrals from the CCRC) and House of Lords, 18.21, op cit.
[12]Ibid pg 4


"Hope is what keeps the human spirit alive – without hope there is nothing" - Jeremy Bamber

"At my trial Judge Drake gave a minimum tariff, and providing that during your jail you do nothing wrong that is how long you do. I was given 25 years. This was then sent to the Lord Chief Justice to be rubber stamped. Lord Lane said he agreed with the 25 year tariff.

So as far as I was concerned I had to serve 25 years and I’d be let out on parole to serve my life license outside. Very few lifers are kept in forever. When I got my life sentence most lifers then were serving between 8 and 12 years, so 25 years was massive.
Jeremy Bamber during his time in prison

Eight years into my sentence I was called up to the psychology office in Long Lartin, about 8 different people were there and it was very odd. The number one Governor said ‘I don’t know how to break this to you but Doulglass Hurd, (who was Secretary for State at the time) has ruled that you must die in jail.’

I appealed this ruling last year and I knew that the appeal court would not act on this as it was too political so they kicked it up the line to The European Court who have now agreed to prioritise my case. This ruling will just confirm how cruel the authorities are telling a man he is to die in jail as hope is what keeps the human spirit alive – without hope there is nothing. It is only because I am strong that I can and could see beyond the action of Michael Howard (Home Secretary at the time who wrote to notify me) in telling me my last breath would be staring at a prison door".

See the blog by Jeremy on the ruling that his original sentence no longer stands and that the whole life tariff imposed after his sentence was set has not been overturned by the European Court of Human Rights. Jeremy intends to take the appeal to the Grand Chamber of the European Court.
'The enormity of the universe can make us feel so small but there is nothing greater than our own capacity to endure.' Jeremy Bamber September, 2012

                             
 
                                                                                

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

BBC NEWS Jeremy Bamber 'to renew murder convictions challenge'

Jeremy Bamber 'to renew murder convictions challenge'

Jeremy Bamber, photographed in 2010. Copyright: Andrew Hunter - Jeremy Bamber Campaign A judge turned down Jeremy Bamber's latest appeal bid

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Jeremy Bamber is to renew his legal bid to challenge his convictions for murdering five relatives more than 25 years ago.
Bamber, 51, is serving a whole-life sentence for shooting dead five members of his family in Essex in 1985.
He had lost a bid to challenge the Criminal Cases Review Commission's (CCRC) decision not to send his case to the Court of Appeal last month.
A Judicial Office spokesman said Bamber would renew his application.
He said the new legal bid would made in an open court hearing.
Bamber has always protested his innocence and claims his schizophrenic sister Sheila Caffell shot her family before turning the gun on herself in a remote Essex farmhouse.
He was granted an appeal in 2002, after the case was referred by the CCRC, but the appeal was later dismissed.
The CCRC is an independent body which investigates the safety of convictions and any possible miscarriages of justice.
After studying the case papers in private, a single judge turned down Bamber's application last month.
Announcing its decision in April, the CCRC said it had not identified "any evidence or legal argument that it considers capable of raising a real possibility that the Court of Appeal would quash the convictions".
Bamber's latest application is unlikely to be heard before the New Year.


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Saturday, 1 September 2012

Jeremy Bamber: Dickinson Inquiry:Perversion of justice

In November 1986 after the trial of Jeremy Bamber the trial Judge Mr Justice Drake ordered an enquiry into the conduct of Esssex Police. The investigation was directed by the Chief Constable, Mr Robert Bunyard. The review was conducted by Detective Chief Superintendent Dickinson of Essex Police assisted by DI Storey.

This investigation consisted of interviews with Police officers and witnesses but no statements were taken although statements and other material submissions from pre-trial were used during the enquiry. It was also noted that the papers available did not include any written records of the original senior investigating officer DCI Thomas Jones who died in a tragic accident at his home on 11th May 1986.

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The Dickinson report was an account which relied heavily on the accounts of Jeremy Bamber’s relatives and in particular his uncle Robert Boutflour. The final report does not accurately reflect events which were uncovered by Dickinson and Storey. It is only post 2002 appeal that extensive handwritten accounts of interviews have been disclosed to the defence.

Missing from the Defence copies were the interviews of Julie Mugford and her mother Mary Mugford. In addition to this many of the senior police officer’s interviews are also missing. 

Overall the review inaccurately drew on accounts which contradict the original statements of witnesses and even contradicted court testimony. It also presented Jeremy Bamber in a biased way using the accounts of Julie Mugford and Robert Boutflour to provide a complete character assassination of Jeremy presented as a money hungry sexual predator who was also engaged in “unsavoury homosexual activities”.

At the end of the report DCI Dickinson concluded that the most senior investigating officer had not visited the scene until after the bodies had been disturbed. He also found that owing to a "shortage of resources," senior officers DCI Jones, DI Cook and DI Montgomery had failed to request that a pathologist and ballistics expert attend the scene with the bodies in situ. Recommendations were made pertaining to these points and also included issues of training and force communication with other police sources.

DCI Dickinson would have us believe that Jeremy Bamber was so sophisticated that he managed to fool a large number of senior and junior police officers at the scene and later a pathologist and ballistics expert. We put it that it is highly unlikely and improbable that experienced police officers attending such a tragic scene would have ignored key evidence if they had not been 100% convinced that Sheila Caffell had killed the family.

In 2002 the appeal court judges placed little significance on any of the Dickinson report referred to by the Defence including the issue of inheritance an area which has developed further in light of evidence disclosed since the 2002 appeal which brings into question the credibility of key prosecution witnesses in particular that of Robert Boutflour.

Friday, 24 August 2012

Jeremy Bamber: 'No Offence' guest blog


Re-blogged from http://www.no-offence.org/content.php/161-Guest-Blog Attrib:Jeremy Bamber

An Independent Police Complaints Commission: s
ed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? But who will guard the guards themselves? 

Roman society wrestled with the same question that today’s society cannot answer: who polices the police? The public have always required protection from corrupt or negligent police officers and in today's society this protection is supposed to come from The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC). 


Police corruption is a growing problem and in the last five years alone investigations handled by the IPCC rose from 30 to 150. The IPCC needs to cope with their ever-increasing work load, but it also has to address how to make their investigations more successful. Police corruption not only affects the standards of policing, and undermines public faith in this service but the tactics employed by the IPCC and Police to maintain wrongful convictions have wider repercussions for us all.

Only at the end of July this year the IPCC wrote in a letter to me “we are completely independent of the police service and are responsible for making sure that the police complaints system in England and Wales works effectively and fairly (Letter dated 31st July 2012 from the IPCC to Mr J Bamber
).


This statement suggests that they are autonomous, self-reliant and unconstrained when they investigate complaints against serving police officers. But the IPCC have no powers to investigate the actions of retired police officers, which is why so many retire when they face an IPCC investigation. Quite why police officers should be granted immunity from investigation upon retirement is unknown. No other criminal is given immunity from investigation, even if they have been law abiding for twenty years. Even the Metropolitan police are currently looking to bring charges 27 years after the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in a remarkable turn of events since the original conviction of Silcott, Braithwaite and Raghip in 1987, which was overturned in 1991 when forensic tests suggested fabricated interview records. There is no statute of limitation for ordinary criminals, even if they have retired from a life of crime many years previously. Police officers on the other hand gain immunity from investigation as soon as they retire which effectively allows a serving police officer to act corruptly or negligently with impunity.

I believe that police officers should still be responsible for their actions upon their retirement. Under the current system the IPCC are the only organisation which can investigate the actions of serving police officers, but the IPCC doesn’t actually do this itself. They state, “our role is to forward your complaint to the relevant police authority........for them to consider (Ibid).

In the process of investigating how a miscarriage of justice has occurred, a large amount of documents are filtered through by the Defence and evidence accumulated, and a cyclic process then begins. For example in my case between 1991 and 2012, there have been over 100 complaints made against Essex police in relation to my case, 24 made during 1991 alone. Further complaints have been made in the past ten years including seventy nine in the last 18 months. On each occasion recently the IPCC have accepted the advice from Essex police not to discipline or prosecute any of the police officers that have had complaints lodged against them. On many occasions Essex Police have applied for a “dispensation” on grounds that my complaints were not lodged within 12 months of the alleged offence, which is tricky given that the complaints could only be made after disclosure was granted by the police themselves, many years after the date of the offence. Another excuse for “dispensation” has been that the officers have retired. In some cases the IPCC have waited for considerable periods with a complaint lodged and during this time the offending officer has retired.

The IPCC therefore have instructed Essex police officers to investigate themselves, which goes against the grain of being 'completely independent'. All police complaints are investigated within the same police authority, except on the rare occasion when the complaint is so serious as to warrant an investigation by police officers from a different authority.

It is quite possible that a police officer facing a complaint will be investigated by a colleague, a friend of a friend, or a friend of a family member. This is especially so in my case which involved over two hundred police officers from the Chelmsford area all being investigated by Chelmsford officers themselves. Therefore, police officers would potentially be able to discuss the nature of the complaint at their leisure. The public should not be surprised when their complaints are not upheld. Often evidence has been 'lost' or 'mislaid' making it impossible for an investigation to reach a conclusion.

The IPCC’s work is closely tied to other MOJ Departments including that of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). I am sure that I am not the only person who has lodged complaints with the IPCC, and the progress of the complaint was deliberately stalled until the CCRC made an announcement, the defendant then finds that his or her complaints are dismissed very suddenly. These government departments are clearly dependent on one another for decision making. And yet the CCRC claim that their role is not to investigate the conduct of police officers and the IPCC maintain that they are not to be used as leverage to overturn a conviction.

This dimension is employed by the police to avoid having to investigate complaints, the IPCC say that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) has already investigated matters. In a letter from Charles Garbett, the Acting Chief Executive and Treasurer of the Essex Police Authority, dated 2nd August 2012, he states: “the documents held by the Force in regard to your complaints were available to the CCRC and no issue has been raised by them in respect that the Force has not co-operated with them” (Letter dated 2nd August 2012 from Charles Garbett to Jeremy Bamber).

The case documents total approximately three and a half million pages, three hundred and forty thousand of which are concealed behind a Public Interest Immunity certificate (PII). A good analogy would be: it’s as difficult as trying to find a single needle in a haystack. Firstly, the CCRC needed to be looking for the needle and my complaints have been made since my submissions to the CCRC, who therefore cannot possibly have looked amongst the documents for my specific complaints and secondly the CCRC may have had access to the 'haystack' but the fact that they didn't find the 'needle' doesn't mean that the 'needle' didn't exist!

The IPCC have been provided with two DVD's which contain all the documents and case photographs that the CCRC couldn't find, but which prove specific police complaints. The IPCC have now been given that 'needle' from the 'haystack', and I wonder what excuse will be given by Essex police for not investigating these current police complaints.

The public may believe that the IPCC actually police the police, but they do not. The police actually police themselves. Most of the time police complaints even fail to be investigated. When an investigation does occur they are rarely upheld as a police officer can avoid scrutiny by simply retiring. This loophole has been slightly tightened recently, but not made entirely obsolete. Retired police officers are still immune from an IPCC investigation.

Just as Juvenal wondered who is to 'Guard the Guards' themselves, it is likely that he would be equally dissatisfied with the actions of the IPCC, were they to be responsible for 'guarding the guards', just as the public are today with how the IPCC police our police, some two thousand years later.

Until police complaints are investigated by a truly independent organisation, corrupt or negligent police officers will continue to avoid being properly investigated. The Home Affairs Select Committee is due to report on the effectiveness of the IPCC in September 2012. It is to be hoped that this immunity for officers, whether they are in service or retired, becomes a thing of the past and equally it must be correct and lawful that all officers should be accountable for their misconduct. 

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Jeremy Bamber: 'If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything'

The quote above by Mark Twain has been proven by Jeremy Bamber.  Jeremy has never once changed his story but it's worth taking note of the amount of times  PS Bews has changed his about who-saw-what in the window, and in the video at the end of this blog he seems to be saying it was 'Steve ...?'

Listen to Jeremy's interview with Eric Allison here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/audio/2011/jan/30/jeremy-bamber-murder-appeal-audio?popup=true

Jeremy is completely innocent of this crime as these statements show. Evidence suggests that Sheila Caffell was downstairs in the kitchen, she had possibly already shot herself once there, she fled upstairs where she was 'officially' found. The evidence below shows that Sheila appears to have moved from the kitchen to the bedroom.

White House Farm had three staircases, it seems very likely that Sheila was unconscious in the kitchen when the police broke into the house and they left her unattended. She then regained consciousness and went upstairs to the master bedroom where she shot herself and died.

You must be asking, how did Jeremy get blamed for the killings if the police knew Sheila was alive? Remember that the original Inspector on the case Taff Jones was adamant that Jeremy was innocent. He knew the truth, that the firearms team had bungled the raid on the house, they  probably had failed to notice that Sheila was still alive with one gunshot wound to the tissue in her neck (the pathologist confirmed in court that this first shot wouldn't have killed her and that she would have been able to walk around with this injury.)

The police then drafted in large numbers of officers for police training exercises where they used Sheila Caffell to practice taking the gun on and off of her body. This is shown in the photographs. This is the secret Essex police have tried to hide for 26 years in the name of British Justice. 


If the officers had realised she was still alive then maybe they could have saved her life. Sadly Taff Jones died in an accident at his home before the trial. His pocket book has never been released to the defence. Also remember that the original documents from the first case number (the murder/suicide) have been withheld from the defence.

The following is evidence which is presented in chronological order put together like this you see how clear and compelling the evidence is which shows that Jeremy is innocent without question.


Nevill’s Call to Police (3.26) and Jeremy's call to police (3.36) 

Jeremy has always maintained that his father called him to tell him that Sheila had a gun and he wanted him to come over. It has now been proven that Jeremy was telling the truth as his father DID call the police. The fact that the police failed to disclose both Jeremy and Nevill's call to them prevented Jeremy from getting a fair trial. The jury should have been made aware of both calls. 
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PC West's Statement regarding Jeremy's call (3.36) 

In his 8th August 1985 statement he says "I then spoke again to Mr Bamber and told him that a police car was attending his fathers address from Witham. I also asked him to attend and liase with police officers on his arrival, this he agreed to do" The car which had already been dispatched as a result of Nevill's call to the police was sent at 3.35 (CA07), PC West organised for a second car to be sent - (CA05) which was owing to Jeremy's call.


Bews, Myall & Jeremy see movement in the window (after 3.45am) 

When Jeremy and the police arrived at White House Farm they saw movement in the master bedroom. Below is an extract from PS Bews trial transcript:

Rivlin: "Do you remember at some stage early on, this happened that one of your Police Officers said that you thought you could see a shadow and you all jumped?"

Bews: "Yes, that is when we first went to the house with Mr Bamber. We had gone round what I thought was the back. We had seen the kitchen door with the light on. We then went into a field which is at the side of the farm house and went went round to where what is -   I believe is the front door and above that is a window. As we moved away I thought we saw something else move, a shadow, something like that. We looked up and after looking for a couple of minutes I was satisfied that it was a - - perhaps a part in the glass that just shone the light slightly as you looked at it."



Rivlin: "It could have been a trick of the light?"



Bews: "I think it was a trick of the light"



It has been stated in a recent interview by PS Bews that the movement was just 'the moon',  however, Saxby's police statement maintains that PS Bews along with PC Myall and Jeremy "came running back from the direction of the farmhouse and PS Bews contacted information room and requested armed assistance and gave a situation report".  Did Bews really call the firearms team out as a result of seeing a reflection of the moon?  During the 80's firearms teams would only have come out if the police were seriously threatened by armed persons. If this was a trick of the light - what light source caused it? It was still dark at this time and the moon was on the other side of the house. This was a lone house in a rural area there was no light from external sources. In addition Geoffrey Rivlin QC clearly did not question the witness properly, in this extract the Defence barrister is actually making the suggestion that the witness didn't see a shadow at all but a trick of the light. 


One of the key features of miscarriages of justice is often poor legal representation. PS Bews recently altered his story again for the ITV Tonight programme shown on the 29th of March 2012, he said in this version that Jeremy noticed the figure in the window. This implied that Jeremy was leading officers into thinking they saw something, however this has never been suggested in any of the case documents or at trial as you can see from the above transcript. We will leave you to draw your own conclusions about the movement in the window. ITV also misled viewers by suggesting that the firearms team were called out before they saw the figure in the window, which is incorrect.

PC Myall Major Incident Report (3:45am) 

Myall reported seeing an 'unidentified male' at this time which ties in with the figure moving in the master bedroom. At court this was dismissed as being a 'trick of the light'. Discrepancies between which rooms had lights on (between 4am and 7.34am). There were a number of contradictory reports from different officers stating which rooms were lit therefore suggesting that the lights in the house were on and off at different times which would be consistent with Sheila Caffell being alive in the house when the police were outside.



Message Log (5:25am) 

There is evidence to suggest the police having been in conversation with Sheila Caffell ‘Firearms team are in conversation with someone from inside the farm’.  It has been suggested this is referring to Jeremy Bamber, but he was referred to by his name or 'the son' and not as an unknown person. Nor was he 'inside the farm', in all instances ‘inside the farm’ was repeatedly used by the police to mean ‘inside the farmhouse’.



Statement of WPC Jeapes (after 7:30am) 

She says that she saw the rifle leaning up against the window frame of the tiny room between the master and the twins room which were connected by doors, this was between 7:30am and when she left the scene at 9am. How did this rifle move from the window to Sheila’s body if she had been killed by Jeremy Bamber before 3:30am as the prosecution stated? The same rifle was seen lying on her body by 8:30am and mysteriously at 10.20am the same gun was back in the window of the main bedroom where she was found. The police never made any reference to the gun in this small room, and there is not a single photograph of this room in the crime scene photographs which is very curious.

Statement of PC Brown (after 7am)

He also details what he believed to be a gun in the window of the small room off the master bedroom, supporting the evidence of WPC Jeapes. How could sightings by two firearms officers, who were located separately and both watching the house using the telescopic sight of a firearm be mistaken about seeing the gun in the window?

In his statement DI Cook said that the first time the rifle was moved from Sheila was 11:10am, the photographing started at 10:00am and finished at 10:50am. Statement of PC Hall (7:00 to 7:34)

Hall states that PC Collins “reported that he could see the body of who he thought was a woman in the kitchen” before the firearms team broke into the house. PC Hall also states later when they broke into the house "I immediately heard a noise upstairs and began to challenge up the stairs I was covering, I was calling to Sheila Bamber to make her whereabouts known to me."

Statement of APS Manners (after 6.45) 

Manners states that PC Collins looked into the kitchen through the window before they broke into the house and “reported seeing what he thought was the body of a female just inside the kitchen door.” Nevill Bamber was found to the centre of the room by the Aga.

Manners also states later when they went upstairs to the master bedroom that Sheila Caffell had blood ‘leaking from both corners of her mouth.’

There are also photographs of Sheila still bleeding at the scene and further pictures taken at the mortuary show even more blood had flowed from her mouth and nose and was widely spread onto her face.

Message Log (7:37) 

“One dead male and one dead female in Kitchen”

Message Log (7:40 am) 

“The police entered the premises and found 1 male dead and 1 female dead.” We also see at 8:10am on the same log, that the police found a further three bodies upstairs. This clearly contradicts the official line that they found one male downstairs and a further four bodies upstairs.

Extracts from DS Davidson’s pocketbook (7:45) 

He states that he was told it was ‘one murder and one suicide’ which suggests that there were only two bodies found at this point and that they were both in the kitchen together. (This would support the above Message Log (7:40 am). If the police had found one body downstairs at this point, why did they report a murder and suicide and not just one murder? We see that by 8.42am he was told it was 4 murders and a suicide.

It must also be noted that the firearms team did not search upstairs at the front of the house until after 7:55am.


PC Hall between 7:34 and 8:15am


One of the first officers in the house, part of the firearms group, said that he had heard a noise upstairs, and yet the noise was put down to another officer who was not directly above the room, he was in another room at the top of another staircase on the other side of the house, the raid team said they used stealth in their approach. He said: “I immediately heard a noise upstairs and began to challenge up the stairs I was covering, I was calling to Sheila Bamber to maker her whereabouts known to me.” Many of the raid team stated that they expected to find Sheila alive and armed.

Police Message Report (7:48) 

Request for the police surgeon to examine ‘two bodies’ at the scene – this suggests that the police had found Sheila and Nevill in the kitchen, and reported this before moving upstairs.

PC Wright (after 9am) 

“I believe that the gun had been removed from the body of Sheila when I saw her” he states. Officially the gun was not supposed to have been found lying on Sheila Caffell and was not removed until the photographing process had finished at 10.50am. In his statement DI Cook stated that the first time the rifle was moved from Sheila was 11:10am.

Statement of DS Jones (9:15 am) 

Sheila was mysteriously now in the bedroom, Jones describes her as having ‘blood running’ from her body – so we know that she can’t have been dead for very long, certainly not for seven hours or more.

DI Millar’s Pocketbook (9:30 am) 

On describing the scene in the master bedroom he states: “In same room far side of bed daughter with .22 rifle by her right side” And yet Sheila Caffell was supposedly found with the rifle lying on her body where it stayed until after the photographing process which started at 10:00am so how can this be.....?

....and that is just 'the tip of the iceberg' of what is proving to be the greatest miscarriage of justice in the UK. There are thousands more documents evidencing incompetence and corruption on every level...
More documents here: http://twitpic.com/photos/Bambertweets#type=gallery


For further information and to view evidence, offer support, or If you were one of the Police Officers on duty, or involved in this case, or maybe you were a colleague or family member or friend, and know something of the truth of what happened that night, please listen to your conscience and do the honourable thing.  Speak up. This could happen to you or one of yours.

Contact Jeremy's Campaign Team: http://www.jeremy-bamber.co.uk/home