Jeremy Bamber: New, Independent Appraisal by 'Generation Why'

Preamble:

I've met with and written to my MP, John Whittingdale, several times, (he was also Jeremy Bamber's MP) asking him to help me with many issues relating to Jeremy's arrest and trial, including a FOI request that Essex Police release all documents relating to the case and which have been hidden under the misuse of Public Interest Immunity (PII).  Whittingdale is adamant that Jeremy is guilty and in any case refuses to help me, stating that there is nothing he can do, that he cannot interfere - though he did, 'interfere' when he addressed parliament about the suitability of Jeremy having access, via prison staff, to the internet.  Sauce for the goose...

I've also written to dozens of politicians and church leaders including; PM David Cameron, Nick Clegg, ex Labour Leader Ed Miliband, Home Secretary Theresa May, Shadow Justice Minister Lord Falconer, Bishop of Chelmsford (those last two couldn't even be bothered to respond) COLP, CCRC, IPCC, Bishop of Liverpool, Archbishops of York Dr. John Sentamu and Rowan Williams, (then Archbishop of Canterbury), Keith Vaz, Keir Starmer, Chris Grayling (when Justice Minister) Witham MP Priti Patel; she, who on BBC 'Question Time' admitted she was in favour of the death penalty for the UK; as a deterrent! So innocent Jeremy would be dead if she had her way). None will help, Oh, Dame Joan Bakewell offered sincere advice, bless her but said it's beyond her scope.

I believe the government are running scared because of public outrage that will erupt when this gravest and longest, THIRTY YEAR miscarriage of justice and corruption finally breaks free; and challenges the credibility and integrity of the whole UK judiciary system.

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The following independent podcast appraisal of Jeremy Bamber's arrest, trial, and conviction is unbiased, clear and constructive.  Their conclusion is an obvious one, as it would be to anybody given the full facts of the case and had sight of the evidence which Essex Police and the prosecution withheld from the defence, the judge and jury; who if they had seen it, would surely have led them to the verdict that Jeremy Bamber was/is innocent, beyond doubt.

White House Farm Murders – 141 – Generation Why  

Jeremy Bamber: L Ellis Media Hub

'Stan should keep regurgitated views to himself'

By This is Essex  |  Posted: August 19, 2010

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CONTROVERSIAL: Stan Jones's views in last week's Chronicle

Comments (0) FORMER Detective Sergeant Stan Jones accuses Jeremy Bamber of continually raking over old ground.
Mr Jones could well be accused of singing the same old song himself. His constantly regurgitated gut-feeling about Bamber proves nothing. He says that Bamber consistently presents material which has already been discussed and adjudicated on in court. How can this be when so much has come to light since the trial that the defence team and jury were unaware of? The allegedly altered police logs, the photograph of Sheila Caffell's body still bleeding some eight hours after she was supposedly shot, the fact that only a small proportion of crime scene photographs were made available to the defence and the jury, the further DNA tests that suggest that the blood in the silencer was more likely to have been a mix of that of Nevill and June Bamber rather than Sheila Caffell's.
Mr Jones states that there was 'a pile of circumstantial evidence' that led to the conclusion that Bamber was guilty. Precisely – it was all circumstantial. There was not one bit of forensic evidence to prove that he committed the crime. In the case of the silencer, this had been contaminated to such a degree by the relatives and police it should never have been allowed as evidence.

 

The police have even backtracked on the contents of their own official logs made at the time, firstly regarding the statement that they had seen a figure moving within the house and secondly that they were in conversation with someone inside the house, both at times when Jeremy Bamber was outside the house with the police. They now say that their officers were 'mistaken' or the wording in the logs was 'misunderstood'. Conveniently, despite the knowledge that appeals against conviction were ongoing and likely to last for some time, Essex Police took it upon themselves to destroy all forensic evidence in 1996.
If I was Stan Jones, rather than continue to trot out the same old stuff I think in the circumstances I'd keep a low profile.
L Ellis
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Jeremy Bamber: Media Hub

The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7884046/Jeremy-Bamber-claims-he-was-framed-for-murder-by-cousins.html

Jeremy Bamber claims he was framed for murder by cousins

Jeremy Bamber has accused two of his cousins of manipulating the evidence that led to his conviction for murdering five relatives in one of Britain’s most notorious crimes.

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Jeremy Bamber, who was jailed for life in 1986 for the murders of five members of his family at White House Farm in Essex Photo: PA

By Matthew Moore

7:30AM BST 12 Jul 2010

Bamber, who has served nearly 25 years of a life sentence for killing his adoptive parents, sister and her twin children, claims he was set up in a conspiracy to cut him out of the inheritance.

Bamber has always maintained his innocence and the Criminal Cases Review Commission is currently analysing photographic evidence which his supporters claim shows he cannot have been responsible for the rampage at his parents’ Essex farmhouse in 1985.

But his allegations against Ann Eaton and David Boutflour, made in his first full prison interview, represent the first time he has directly blamed other people for his plight.

Mr Boutflour yesterday dismissed the allegations as “absolute piffle” and said he and his sister had no reason to incriminate their cousin, who was described by the trial judge as “evil, almost beyond belief”.

Bamber, who is now 49, was found guilty of the murders after a rifle silencer covered in specks of blood, red paint and a single hair was found in a cupboard at White House Farm in the village of Tolleshunt D'Arcy days after the killing.

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While police were initially convinced that Bamber’s sister Sheila had shot her adoptive parents Nevill and June and six-year-old twins Nicholas and Daniel before turning the gun on herself, the new discovery indicated that a third party must have carried out the spree before returning the silencer.
Jurors were also shown photos - taken one month after the killings - of scratch marks above the Aga in the family kitchen, indicating that Nevill had tussled with the gunman before being shot. The paint on the silencer matched that above the oven.
Bamber’s campaign for his conviction to be overturned is largely based on a recently-uncovered photo taken hours after the killings, which shows no sign of any scratches on the Aga mantlepiece, nor flecks of paint on the floor below.
Speaking to The Sunday Times yesterday, Bamber claimed that his cousins planted the silencer and scratched the paint in the weeks after the shootings, in a plan to frame him and secure ownership of the £400,000 family estate.
Bamber was disinherited after his conviction, and the estate passed to the Boutflours. Ann Eaton still lives at the property with her family.
Mr Boutflour rejected the claims as absurd and unfounded. He told the newspaper:: “I remember some things like it was yesterday. I remember finding the silencer.
“He’s suggesting that we fraudulently shoved the paint and the blood in to make it appear he had done it. Well that’s a load of rubbish. What would be the point? There was enough evidence anyway. What an absolute load of piffle.”
Mrs Eaton could not be contacted for comment yesterday, and has previously declined to speak to the press.
The Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates suspected miscarriages of justice, is expected to decide in the next few months whether to grant Bamber permission to take his case to the Court of Appeal.
He has already had two appeals against his conviction rejected. He is serving a whole-life tariff, meaning he will never be eligible for parole.

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Jeremy Bamber: Five Moderators

In 1985 Jeremy Bamber was found guilty of murdering his entire family and imprisoned.

In 1994 a judge ruled that the Home Office was to disclose all material relating to the case to Jeremy Bamber's legal team. The material was never given to Jeremy's Defence and records show that a Special Branch officer ordered the destruction of all DNA exhibits, except for the Sound Moderator (gun silencer).

The material was incinerated at a unit off the North Circular Road and an innocent man is spending his thirtieth year in prison whilst evidence which could free him, lies in ashes.  If there was nothing for the prosecution to hide, why then did the Home Office order the destruction of what could be relevant evidence and helpful to the Defence? Strangely, they saved the moderator 'evidence'.

Interestingly and unsurprisingly, after many years it has now been discovered that at least five moderators were removed from White House Farm after the murders and forensics were combined by police, relatives as well as scientists at Huntingdon Laboratory, either deliberately or accidently and were produced at Jeremy's trial as if relating to only one moderator and this was what members of the  jury were led to believe.

Incidentally Jeremy has always maintained that when he left the rifle on the settle (bench) at White House farm, after his time out shooting rabbits, there was no moderator on it:

 
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Read more about this injustice with further documented evidence of police cover-up and collusion on the Campaign Team website: http://www.jeremy-bamber.co.uk/

'Captain of my soul...' Jeremy Bamber

Monday, 29 September 2014

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The 29th Anniversary of Jeremy's Wrongful Imprisonment

It’s always at this time of year I look back and consider my life, my freedom and what it means to me. People often ask how do I feel, or how can I cope? There are times, especially in the present day, when we all consider our freedom and other people’s suffering in the fight to protect it, especially in times of war.

 

Freedom comes in many different guises and release from physical pain and illness is freedom too. I might be physically incarcerated but my mind is always free to wander anywhere in the world, to the ancient pyramids, or down to the farmlands of Essex.

 

When I consider how I personally feel, I often read this poem by William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Invictus, was written during a time when the author felt he too had lost a part of his freedom. For me this work sums up how I feel and I’m sure there are others who can relate to these words, which have a universal message about suffering. So as I enter my thirtieth year of wrongful imprisonment, let's all remember to cherish the freedom we have, even if it is limited to four walls.

 

Jeremy.

 

'Out of the night that covers me,


Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be


For my unconquerable soul.


 


In the fell clutch of circumstance


I have not winced nor cried aloud.


Under the bludgeoning’s of chance


My head is bloody, but unbowed.



 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears


Looms but the Horror of the shade,


And yet the menace of the years


Finds and shall find me unafraid.



It matters not how strait the gate,


How charged with punishments the scroll,


I am the master of my fate,


I am the captain of my soul.'

About Jeremy Bamber

Many people may have heard of Jeremy Bamber; others support him and are familiar with his case and the outrageous miscarriage of justice.  Copied from Jeremy's website, I found the following helpful in providing some insight into Jeremy's background, friends and family.

Copyright ©Jeremy Bamber Campaign http://jeremybamber.org/jeremy-bamber/

The Author’s view                                                                                                        December 2011

This is not a direct account from Jeremy Bamber. It is my view on Jeremy and his circumstances written as author. I have been kindly granted access to all available evidence regarding Jeremy’s case including 130 lever arch files of papers, which has enabled me to build a picture of Jeremy during this period. I have also sourced various accounts from people who know Jeremy. It is from these documents that I have drawn my conclusions that Jeremy Bamber was an innocent man, wrongly convicted in the prime of his life. The character of Jeremy as I see it is one which contrasts with popular myth brought about by the media.

Background
Jeremy’s natural mother was 16 and lived in Scotland, and his father a young army recruit. His natural father was married at the time he was conceived and later divorced his wife to marry Jeremy’s natural mother. His father rose to be an Army General and I believe they are still married to this day, they also had more children together, Jeremy Bamber’s full brother and sister are called Justin Marsham and Sophie Marsham.

Jeremy was adopted through the church by June and Nevill Bamber who provided a kind and loving family, and Jeremy feels very fortunate to have grown up in this environment. He enjoyed life on the farm, had his own dog and learned the skill of farming from an early age. He loved Sheila despite them going their separate ways during their teenage years. Jeremy enjoys cultivating plants and he has expressed a desire to return to farming, though I think small scale farming would be on his agenda these days.

As a young man he went to the renowned Gresham College. Jeremy is intelligent, and is particularly interested in engineering, architecture, sculpture and physics. He has always enjoyed keeping fit and still goes to the gym every day he can, he is also interested in yoga and meditation. Jeremy didn’t pursue a degree after college but while in prison he has gained many educational qualifications and spends long hours working on his case as well attending the Brallie translation workshop.

Jeremy did not dress up as Adam Ant on the farm, contrary to popular belief, but was always smart and well presented when he wasn’t farming. He did go into London to meet up with friends and he saw Sheila every couple of weeks; he was friends with Colin Caffell and they got on well. Jeremy was definitely a ‘farmer’s boy’ who very much enjoyed that life style and wanted it to continue that way.

From 79-80 Jeremy spent time in Australia travelling. For 5 months he worked on a sugar plantation working with a family in Queensland; he really enjoyed employment for them on the farm and still speaks about their ingenious inventions of various types of machinery to harvest crops. At the end of that year he went to New Zealand and back to Australia a couple of times but for no great length of time. It has been suggested that Jeremy hated farming, if this was so then why did he work on a farm in Australia and not as a barman for example?

Coping with the tragedies at White House Farm

Everyone copes with trauma in different ways. Jeremy had been kept away from the house when the fire arms team were called in. He had been asked to stay in a police car on Pages Lane with officers, who testified that he was distressed, he kept looking as though he was going to break down and they distracted him with talk of other things. PC Lay stated in his 1^st of October statement:
“There were two or three occasions during the conversation that Jeremy appeared to be getting upset. On one of these occasions he said, “Oh God, I hope she hasn’t done anything stupid.” I didn’t ask him to elaborate on that remark as the man was getting distressed and so I steered the conversation to another subject.”
Lay goes on to say:
“The Witham Duty Sergeant came over to the car. He went to the nearside and opened the passenger door and said – I’m very sorry there’s no hope for any of them.” Or words to that effect. At that Jeremy burst into tears and the sergeant tried to console him.”

Other officers detail in their statements that Jeremy was crying and was visibly upset and distressed. When the doctor arrived he gave him a sip of whiskey from a hip flask. This made Jeremy sick. When they took Jeremy to his home, police insisted he eat something to stop him from retching. He had little food in the house and went to the fridge, the only thing he could find was bacon which he put into the microwave and then into two pieces of bread, he ate this with the encouragement of the police officers and so is the kernel of the myth of the jolly Jeremy Bamber sitting at this kitchen table eating a hearty cooked breakfast with police officers.

Many of Jeremy’s responses have been used against him, for example, the talk of buying a Porsche was used as evidence to demonstrate that he was already planning to spend his inheritance on a new Sports car, but the truth was that Jeremy was referring to a buying a cheap kit Porsche. The case is littered with myths and circumstantial evidence. The facts are that there was no evidence against Jeremy Bamber; nothing connecting him to the scene. In court the moderator was the only thing suggesting that Sheila had not shot herself. She could not have fired one shot leaving her blood in the moderator and then taken the moderator downstairs and put it in the gun cupboard and gone back upstairs again where she was found. Even though this still did not connect Jeremy to the killings, the judge stated at court that because Jeremy said that his father had made the call to him – this would mean that it had to be either Jeremy or Sheila and not a third party. It does beg the question as to why there has been so much emphasis placed on the precarious evidence of Mugford and her hit man story which was demonstrably disproved. So, with absolutely no evidence – why is he in prison?

Jeremy Bamber let Julie Mugford and his friends and relatives take over the running of almost every part of the aftermath of the tragedy.[1] Unable to cope with entering White House Farm without experiencing trauma and severe anxiety Jeremy continued to smoke cannabis heavily, whilst drinking alcohol and taking diazepam as prescribed by his doctor. [2]

The question must have turned over in his mind a million times: If I hadn’t left the gun out on the settle would this still have happened?Had he forgotten to take the magazine out or not? No, he was sure he had taken the magazine out. Had Sheila noticed that he had left the gun like this? He had blamed himself for his own mistakes, but then the farm was full of guns, a collection of 7 weapons including rifles and shotguns were there and he knew that Sheila could have picked up any one of those at any time.

The family solicitor was later interviewed by police and confirmed that he had advised Jeremy to find out the order of deaths[3] something which was later to be used against him by his relatives and the police. Later when the City of London Police investigated, Mr Wilson told them that Jeremy was very emotional on his visits to him and that he had advised Jeremy that he should be appointed sole director of the businesses.[4]

A few days after the tragedy Jeremy had to face going into the farm, Ann Eaton took Jeremy around the house after she had been in to clean it and remove valuable items she wanted for herself and her family. She stated that he did not want to go into each room and she described Jeremy as “frightened, hesitant and petrified,” a normal reaction for someone having to face where the bodies of their family had been found. [5]

The family accountant had confirmed that Nevill’s bank account was overdrawn by almost £100,000; [6] all of the estate was tied up in assets. Nevill had borrowed this money to convert his estate in Guildford into five houses. Jeremy had the responsibility of running the farm at harvest time, coping with the funerals of his family, the shock, his grief and the prospect of having little money for funerals as well as paying staff wages. He was an inexperienced farmer at just 24 years old, and Basil Cock had advised that Jeremy appoint Peter Eaton as farm manager to help. Jeremy was also advised that death duties would be high and he would have to find ways of cutting down costs. At the time inheritance duties were 40% of all monies inherited over £200,000. The financial difficulty Jeremy faced was because he was to inherit both his parent’s estates at once. The accountant told him that he would owe around £80,000 in tax.

Brett Collins, Julie and Jeremy went out drinking together a frequently after the tragedy, Jeremy Bamber recently said in an interview with the Mirror Newspaper “I am certainly not alone in turning to alcohol in sorrow – nor in seeking the company of others who cared about me.” Brett tried to keep Jeremy’s spirits high with good humour and Jeremy even joined his friend, the twins father, Colin Caffell on the 9^th of August where he, Jeremy, Julie, Brett and three others went for Chinese meal and then on to a concert as both Jeremy and Colin tried to put a brave face on their grief. [7]

Some weeks later after the tragedy, on the 23^rd August, Jeremy attended the farm, he asked both Barbara Wilson and Jean Bouttell to clear out much of the clutter that filled up the rooms of White House Farm. This included a large collection of magazines in the kitchen under which Jean Bouttell found the spare telephone. She asked Jeremy what she should do with it he just remarked it was a spare.[8] There was much discussion over this telephone which was a court exhibit.

Jeremy had cheated on Julie Mugford with her friend Lizzie prior to the tragedies and he had also felt that his time with Julie had come to an end and broke of their relationship. Her endless demanding behaviour must have become tiresome for him; he had offered to buy Julie a wine bar in London and had given her money to help her as a student teacher. Jeremy wanted to be with another woman called Virginia whom he had known for some time. He turned to Virginia for comfort away from Julie’s violent tantrums and demands. [9] Julie was becoming more and more difficult and resented Brett Collins being around and suspected that they were lovers.

Brett had said he was experienced in the sale of antiques and together with Jeremy they took some valuables to Sotheby’s for auction to raise funds to help with the impending death duties much to the horror of the relatives. During the period before he was charged with the murders, Jeremy Bamber had twice headed overseas rejecting what had happened and feeling distressed at the constant press intrusion into his life.

After DCI Jones was removed as head of the investigation he worked under Supt Ainsley. DCI Jones had to arrest Jeremy Bamber the first time at Moorshead Mansions.  Almost immediately after his arrest and still at the flat Jeremy had blurted out that he had possession of Marijuana and handed some over to Jones.  At interview he easily confessed to burgling the caravan park to prove a point by using a key kept inside the letter box.  He also confessed to cultivating Marijuana in his back garden which he sold to friends.  For someone who owns up to crime so easily, it seems to me that if Jeremy Bamber had committed the killings he would not be able to stop himself from confessing.  Nevertheless, in 27 years there has never been any admission.

After his first arrest on the 8^th of September, he was questioned for four days sometimes until 11pm at night. The interviews were not audio recorded but hand written each day, the first two days of questioning were held without Jeremy having a solicitor present. Police constantly pressed him on the positioning of the gun accusing him of telling some police officers that the rifle was on the table, but he was adamant the gun was on the settle.  DS Stan Jones asked him if he had or hadn’t fired the gun.  He was insistent that he had not fired the rifle.  They went over and over the telephone call from his father.  The records of these interviews span for hundreds of pages.  DS Jones told Jeremy that Julie had said that he had called her before calling the police which contradicted what both he and Julie had initially told police. The time of the call needed to be ‘fixed’ at a much earlier time for the prosecution to state that he called Julie first. This corresponds to PC West’s log having been recorded much earlier but he altered his testimony saying that he filled the log out wrong by ten minutes.

After days of questioning and with all the  confusion, Jeremy said that maybe he did call Julie first.  This single discrepancy was used against Jeremy although it actually has no real bearing on the facts; whether he called Julie first or the police second the events still happened just as he had said.  Since the interview Jeremy has maintained that he called the police before he called Julie.  There are no other discrepancies in Jeremy’s accounts throughout his 27 years. This single issue was used to state that Jeremy had lied. Jeremy Bamber’s account has stood up to scrutiny over 27 years and is very robust by comparison with the testimony of Mugford, who had lied about their engagement, the end of their relationship, Jeremy’s relationship with Collins, MacDonald being the hit man, her involvement in drugs and crime independently of Jeremy and her pre-trial deal with the News of the World for 25k.

Through all of the witness accounts, many people have altered their accounts and statements contradict each other, there is only one account which remains the same to this day and it is the account of Jeremy Bamber.  This is because it is the truth and the truth does not alter, other witnesses (both police officers and relatives) have exaggerated and embellished their original accounts in the media and to different police enquiries.  Jeremy has coped with the strain of the continual questioning and by comparison with other miscarriages of justice his version of accounts has not altered; he has never confessed nor altered his account under duress.

After his first arrest and release without charge Jeremy was approached by the newspapers for his story.  Naively he went to meet with one after his solicitor advised him against it.  But Jeremy was tired of being vilified by the newspapers after his arrest and wanted to tell his story.  Jeremy said that Brett Collins also advised that he should go to meet with the journalist. But the Sun journalist wasn’t interested in Jeremy’s account, and continually asked questions about Sheila Caffell and requested any modelling pictures which might have been pornographic.  Jeremy had told him that there were none and that there might have been some topless ones but Colin Caffell would have those.  The journalist ran the story reporting that the newspaper had been offered these pictures and they also went to the police. The newspaper never obtained pictures of Sheila, because they didn’t exist, further proof that Jeremy Bamber had not intended to sell any pictures to the newspaper.

Jeremy’s efforts to tell his story had gone disastrously wrong, this coupled with the burglary at the caravan park made the outlook very bleak.  Stories escalated about Jeremy’s relationship with Brett Collins and his trips abroad.  Acquaintances turned their backs on him and his often eccentric, foolish behaviour and socialising with homosexuals was amplified by local gossip.  His enjoyment of cannabis, later down classified to a class C drug and frequently used by the middle classes, was also a major point of 'criminality' used by the prosecution.  He was presented as having spent a lot of money on holidays but the reality was on his trip to Amsterdam he, Brett and Julie had shared the same room to economise.

After his arrest, the trip to the South of France was glamorised but the fact was that Jeremy and Brett stayed in a caravan to keep the costs low.  Anything to escape the now intrusive and destructive glare of the media. Jeremy was an innocent man subjected to similar treatment as other people who are vilified in the press, and subsequently released without charge.

Jeremy had continued smoking pot, taking prescribed sedatives[10] and alcohol to drown out the shock, pain and sorrow.  His arrest and high media profile prompted his new love Virginia to turn her back on him.   Julie had contrived a convoluted story to the police, and his relatives had turned against him and by their own admission, were taking belongings from his family home without permission.[11] Even Colin Caffell had become distant and had written to him saying that the relatives had insisted that Jeremy was duping him and was definitely guilty and Colin didn’t know what to believe now his beautiful twins were dead and Jeremy had been arrested and released without charge.[12]

Now Jeremy was in virtual exile in France with his friend Brett trying to support him in the only way he knew how, by leading him to drinking dens. After a short period under police surveillance the officers abandoned their suspect realising that Jeremy was not going to do anything helpful to the prosecution’s case.[13] Jeremy found the pain was dampened by drinking until the small hours and both he and Brett suffered with food poisoning on their return journey to the UK by ferry. Jeremy was arrested and charged with murder at the port of Dover.

On his arrival in a police van on his last day of freedom, there were several women  waving to him and calling out his name, he smiled back as the cameras snapped him in a dazed, exhausted blur of a mask which veiled the pain he would carry for at least another 27 years. This was a photograph often used over the years by the press to demonstrate that he was a shallow and arrogant young man.
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'Truth cannot be found through facts alone, truth can only come through understanding'

 Jeremy Bamber, 2012

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[1] Collective statements, J Mugford, A. Eaton, P. Eaton, B. Cock, B Collins

[2] Medical records, J Bamber

[3] 25^th September, 1985, Police action 769, interview T. Wilson, Solicitor

[4] 3^rd July 1991, Statement, T Wilson, Solicitor

[5] 16^th September 1985, Statement, A Eaton

[6] Nevill Bamber statement of Estate & Ann Eaton Statement IBID

[7] 17^th November, 1985, Statement, J Mugford

[8] Trial Transcript & Statements, J Bouttell

[9] 8^th September 1985, Statement, J Mugford

[10] Medical records of Jeremy Bamber

[11] Ann Eaton Statement to COLP

[12] 17^th September 1985,Letter to Jeremy from Colin Caffell

[13] Officer’s report Surveillance on JB

 

 

Jeremy Bamber and Victim Support Failings:

The following is my brief contribution to the Victim Support pages on Jeremy Bamber's website. 
To read other contributor's accounts and to discover the support and respect Jeremy deserved, and the callous lack of both which he received, view video and link below.

Counselling for Trauma

by Poppy Ann Miller The kind of trauma that Jeremy would have wanted support with - still does - would have entailed a possible group of therapists and medics. So, as a counsellor working today and not thirty years ago, I would have referred Jeremy to a specialist psychiatrist or psychologist, whilst I continued to work with him in counselling, and that would be in allowing him to express all his feelings in a safe environment - and helping him make sense of them. This would also include bereavement work, anger - guilt - even though he was not guilty in any sense - victims often feel they should have been able to 'do' something and in Jeremy’s case, of course, he may have felt guilt that all his family were dead and he still alive - and why? Counselling, in that kind of traumatic situation is more to do with 'holding'  the client emotionally, as they feel fragmented - no roots - no sense of belonging - out of control - fear of madness and of course an overwhelming sense of loss.  Often resulting in excessive alcohol intake, drugs, and/or self-harming.  Each client brings their own story and has their own particular needs. This kind of counselling can go on for years, with the client returning if and when another aspect of his/her grief manifests itself.

Jeremy Bamber: Victim Support

Jeremy Bamber: Watertight Alibi

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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?

Jeremy Bamber: As many as FIVE silencers

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Flawed though it was, the evidence surrounding the sound moderator - known as a silencer - was undoubtedly crucial in securing the conviction of Jeremy Bamber for the murders of five members of his family in 1985. Speaking to author Scott Lomax in a book on the case, Jeremy himself said "...it all comes back to the blood in the moderator."

Trial judge, Justice Drake had told the jury "...on the evidence of the silencer alone...", they may find Jeremy guilty, and indeed the jury themselves wrestled to get to grips with the issue and, at one stage, after their first deliberation to reach a verdict, they asked to hear again the evidence relating to it. Their verdict followed soon after, so one can be in no doubt that the issue was central to the decision made almost thirty years ago.

The jury had been concerned that Jeremy's relatives, who found the moderator, would benefit from his conviction, and asked the court a question in writing about their motive but were told that the relatives were wealthy in their own right, and had no interest in financial gain from Jeremy's conviction. Despite a wealth of evidence showing motive for the Boutflour's and Eaton's to lie in court, including the existence of documents showing a court battle between Jeremy's father and mother's families for the estate, the 2002 Appeal ruled that new evidence did not suggest that the 1986 court was lied to in any way, and that the jury were given the correct answer by Robert Boutflour. The courts have ignored any possible financial motive to plant evidence, including the secret land deal and the will of Jeremy's grandmother which had been changed after the tragedies making his aunt and uncle Boutflour wealthy in their own right. Since the 2002 Appeal, considerable information has come to light regarding the depravation of monies from the Bamber estate including accusations of theft against Peter Eaton by the Bamber's secretary Mrs Barbara Wilson which went un-investigated thus hampering the first appeal of Jeremy Bamber.

It has now been established that the 'silencer' in the case of Jeremy Bamber is nothing more than a complete red herring, probably thrown into the mix by those who financially benifited from Jeremy's conviction to muddy the waters. Only now, decades later, have we been able to unravel the issue completely and piece back together how its evidence was manipulated by police to aid their bid to secure Jeremy's conviction. The City of London Police Investigation (1991), Metropolitan Police Investigation (2001) and Criminal Cases Review Commission (2004-2012) have all ignored statements made in 1991 by the Forensic Scientists who worked on the sound moderator exhibit, who explicitly say that their original statements made to Essex Police had been altered without their knowledge. No action has been taken by either Political or Judicial authorities to address the very serious issue of Police fabricating key witness statements.

Our Case Quick Time video on The Moderator explains some of the issues surrounding the forensic examination, and highlights a comprehensive dossier of material supporting the truth. You will be able to see how the evidence presented at trial was not from one exhibit, but from as many as five moderators. Collected and examined at different times,
the exhibit evidence was effectively stitched together to form what was the cornerstone of the fabricated prosecution case against an innocent man. We know for sure that the moderator never played a part in the tragedies that unfolded at White House Farm.
 
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Jeremy Bamber: The Money Trail

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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