PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "A blood-stained silencer was also found at the farm by Bamber’s cousin. Bamber’s team say they now have evidence of two silencers examined by police, both believed to contain blood that could belong to Sheila or now-deceased cousin Robert Boutflour. They say a forensic report has been given to the CPS about this evidence. Bamber believes police always had evidence that would have cleared him, but failed to disclose it at his trial, his first appeal in 1989 or second in 2002."
STORY: "Jeremy Bamber's 'new evidence' that could free him after 33 years behind bars ," by Reporter Matthew Young, published by The Mirroron October 18, 2019.
SUB-HEADING: The mass killer was jailed for shooting parents Nevill and June, model sister Sheila “Bambi” Caffell, and her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas."
STORY: "Mass
murderer Jeremy Bamber claims he has unearthed phone call evidence that
could set him free, 33 years after he was jailed for slaughtering his
family. Bamber, 58, has found a phone log he says proves he did
not shoot parents Nevill and June, model sister Sheila “Bambi” Caffell,
and her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas in August 1985. Bamber is serving a full life tariff for the massacre at White House Farm in Essex. His
legal team say a police record referring to a call made by Bamber on
the night of the White House Farm massacre in 1985 proves he was not
there at the time and could form the basis of an appeal. They say
it backs up the theory that Bamber’s sister Sheila Caffell, 26,
murdered their parents Nevill and June, both 61, then shot her own sons,
twins Nicholas and Daniel, six, before killing herself. Bamber’s lawyer Mark Newby said: “The evidence strongly
suggests the chain of events could not have been what the prosecution
alleged.” The
phone call evidence forms one element of a huge bundle Bamber’s team
will soon submit to the Criminal Case Review Commission. The
previously unseen police document appears to back up Bamber’s story that
two calls were made to police on the night of the murders, one from his
father and one from him after Nevill rang saying Sheila had “gone
crazy”. At his trial, the prosecution said only one call was made
to police – from Jeremy Bamber at 3.26am from the crime scene, White
House Farm in Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex. But the new document describes a
call to police from Jeremy Bamber timed at “approx 3.37am”. His
legal team argue it shows Bamber could not have made the 3.26am call
from the farm and returned to his home 3.5 miles away in Goldhanger to
make the second call. The “3.37am” note came from an interview with a PC Myall,
of Essex Police, during the Dickinson Inquiry into the force’s handling
of the case after Bamber’s conviction in November 1986. The note was found by Bamber among thousands of police documents released to him in 2011.
PC
Myall is noted as telling Dickinson: “We received a telephone call at
the P.Stn (Police Station, Witham). "The
officer (PC West) at CD Control (Chelmsford) was on the phone and told
us that he was relating information to us and still had the informant
(Jeremy Bamber) on the other telephone.” The trial judge had instructed
the jury to disregard Bamber’s claims that he had called police from his
home at 3.36am. And
prosecutors told the trial Bamber had invented the call from Nevill to
lay the blame on schizophrenic Sheila, known as Bambi when she worked as
a model. Bamber was convicted by a 10-2 majority of murdering his
family to claim a £436,000 inheritance. He
was initially sentenced to five life sentences, to serve a minimum 25
years, but that was increased to a whole life tariff in 1994. The Mirror
revealed in 2010 how lost phone logs showed it was Nevill who called
police at 3.26am. A further record submitted to the Criminal Case Review
Commission in 2010 showed a 3.36am call to police from Jeremy Bamber. But
the CCRC ruled the 3.36am call was noted in error and that there was
just one call, from Jeremy not Nevill, made at 3.26am from White House
Farm scene. The new “3.37am” note is said to prove the existence of the
second call. ITV
last week announced a drama about the murders next year, with Freddie
Fox as Bamber, who is in Wakefield jail, West Yorkshire. Bamber
was famously pictured with girlfriend Julie Mugford, 21, struggling to
contain his grief walking behind his parents’ coffins at their funeral.
After Julie found he had cheated on her, she told police Bamber had
talked of hiring a hitman to kill his parents. A blood-stained silencer was also found at the farm by Bamber’s cousin. Bamber’s
team say they now have evidence of two silencers examined by police,
both believed to contain blood that could belong to Sheila or
now-deceased cousin Robert Boutflour. They say a forensic report
has been given to the CPS about this evidence. Bamber believes police
always had evidence that would have cleared him, but failed to disclose
it at his trial, his first appeal in 1989 or second in 2002. Between
2004 and 2011, Bamber made three CCRC submissions in a failed attempt
to get his case back to the Court of Appeal. He has also made appeals
against his whole life tariff. Essex Police said: “There has never been anything to suggest
that he was wrongly convicted.” But Bamber’s lawyer is now hopeful of a
new appeal. Mr Newby said: “The phone call information is
consistent with what Jeremy Bamber always said. It is part of a package
of evidence that should lead to a positive review for Jeremy. “It’s
fair to say when we go back to the CCRC we will have a pretty strong
package which we hope they will refer to the Court of Appeal. We hope we
will get it across the line. “If we do, it is probably this country’s greatest ever miscarriage of justice.""
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-bambers-new-evidence-could-20651305
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-bambers-new-evidence-could-20651305.amp
Read the statement Jeremy Bamber's lawyers released after the Mirror published this story at the link below: "Today a story appeared on the Front Page of the Mirror concerning the Case of Jeremy Bamber and this is our statement in relation to that. We confirm we act on behalf of Jeremy Bamber and have seen the article now published by the Mirror which we contributed to. Further we can confirm that we are working with Jeremy's dedicated support team to build an extensive package of grounds including the evidence referred to in the Mirror so that we can provide the Criminal Cases Review Commission a set of grounds of appeal upon which it can make a swift referral back to the Court of Appeal. That also relies upon obtaining further disclosure which is currently being sought .
This is a complex case and if successful would be one of the U.K.'s most notorious miscarriages of justice. We do not propose therefore as Jeremy's legal team to further elaborate on the grounds to be advanced or other actions that may be imminent at this stage, however we expect to make a further statement in the coming weeks.
https://www.qualitysolicitors.com/jordans/news/2019/10/jeremy-bamber-case-statement-following-mirror-article
Read Wikipedia entry in full at the link below: "Bamber alerted police to the shootings at around 3:30 am on 7 August 1985. He told them that Nevill telephoned him to say that Bamber's sister, Sheila Caffell, had gone "berserk" with Nevill's rifle. Caffell was found dead on the floor of her parents' bedroom, with the rifle up against her throat. June Bamber was found in the same room. Caffell's six-year-old twin sons, Nicholas and Daniel, were found in their beds in another upstairs room, while Nevill was found in the kitchen downstairs. The family had been shot 25 times, mostly at close range.[4] Caffell had spent time in a psychiatric hospital being treated for schizophrenia months before the murders. The police believed that she was responsible until Bamber's girlfriend told them he had implicated himself.[4] The prosecution case included that there was no evidence that Bamber's father had telephoned him. They argued that the father was too badly injured to have spoken to anyone; that there was no blood on the kitchen phone; and that he would have called the police, not Bamber. They also argued that the silencer was on the gun when the shots were fired, and that Caffell's reach was not long enough to hold the gun and silencer at her throat and press the trigger. In addition she was not strong enough, they said, to have overcome her father in what appeared to have been a violent struggle in the kitchen. They also argued that the fact Sheila had shot herself twice in her apparent suicide attempt was evidence that she was not the killer.[20] Bamber's defence team unsuccessfully challenged the evidence over the years. They alleged that a police log suggested that Bamber's father had indeed called the police that night, and that the silencer may not have been on the gun during the attacks.[21] The silencer evidence was unreliable, they argued, because the silencer was found in a farmhouse cupboard by one of Bamber's cousins 3 days after the murders."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bamber
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;
The case against: The prosecution said Bamber, then 24, had cycled to White House Farm and got in via an insecure window before murdering his family. Girlfriend Julie Mugford said Bamber had planned the killings and had phoned her, saying: “Tonight’s the night.” A silencer found three days later had Sheila’s blood inside. Prosecutors said she could hardly have put it back in the cupboard if she had already killed herself with it."
The entire story can be read at:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-bambers-new-evidence-could-20651305
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-bambers-new-evidence-could-20651305.amp
Read the statement Jeremy Bamber's lawyers released after the Mirror published this story at the link below: "Today a story appeared on the Front Page of the Mirror concerning the Case of Jeremy Bamber and this is our statement in relation to that. We confirm we act on behalf of Jeremy Bamber and have seen the article now published by the Mirror which we contributed to. Further we can confirm that we are working with Jeremy's dedicated support team to build an extensive package of grounds including the evidence referred to in the Mirror so that we can provide the Criminal Cases Review Commission a set of grounds of appeal upon which it can make a swift referral back to the Court of Appeal. That also relies upon obtaining further disclosure which is currently being sought .
This is a complex case and if successful would be one of the U.K.'s most notorious miscarriages of justice. We do not propose therefore as Jeremy's legal team to further elaborate on the grounds to be advanced or other actions that may be imminent at this stage, however we expect to make a further statement in the coming weeks.
https://www.qualitysolicitors.com/jordans/news/2019/10/jeremy-bamber-case-statement-following-mirror-article
Read Wikipedia entry in full at the link below: "Bamber alerted police to the shootings at around 3:30 am on 7 August 1985. He told them that Nevill telephoned him to say that Bamber's sister, Sheila Caffell, had gone "berserk" with Nevill's rifle. Caffell was found dead on the floor of her parents' bedroom, with the rifle up against her throat. June Bamber was found in the same room. Caffell's six-year-old twin sons, Nicholas and Daniel, were found in their beds in another upstairs room, while Nevill was found in the kitchen downstairs. The family had been shot 25 times, mostly at close range.[4] Caffell had spent time in a psychiatric hospital being treated for schizophrenia months before the murders. The police believed that she was responsible until Bamber's girlfriend told them he had implicated himself.[4] The prosecution case included that there was no evidence that Bamber's father had telephoned him. They argued that the father was too badly injured to have spoken to anyone; that there was no blood on the kitchen phone; and that he would have called the police, not Bamber. They also argued that the silencer was on the gun when the shots were fired, and that Caffell's reach was not long enough to hold the gun and silencer at her throat and press the trigger. In addition she was not strong enough, they said, to have overcome her father in what appeared to have been a violent struggle in the kitchen. They also argued that the fact Sheila had shot herself twice in her apparent suicide attempt was evidence that she was not the killer.[20] Bamber's defence team unsuccessfully challenged the evidence over the years. They alleged that a police log suggested that Bamber's father had indeed called the police that night, and that the silencer may not have been on the gun during the attacks.[21] The silencer evidence was unreliable, they argued, because the silencer was found in a farmhouse cupboard by one of Bamber's cousins 3 days after the murders."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bamber
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;