The silencer and the White House Farm murders: is this the evidence that could free Jeremy Bamber?. He has been in prison for 41 years for killing five members of his family – despite no DNA linking him to the crime. New analysis of the crime scene photographs for the Guardian suggests the prosecution’s central argument may have been wrong On 7 August 1985, five people were found dead at White House Farm in Essex , England: 28-year-old Sheila Caffell (familiarly known as Bambi) ; her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas ; and her adoptive parents, June and Nevill Bamber . All five had been shot with a rifle. Caffell’s 24-year-old brother Jeremy Bamber , who was also adopted, had alerted Essex police to a disturbance inside the farmhouse – he said his father had called to tell him – and had been outside with the police for four hours before the bodies were discovered. Caffell, who had recently been hospitalised with schizophrenia and is said to have feared her children were going to be taken into foster care, was found with the rifle lying on her chest, pointing towards her neck. There were two gunshot wounds to her neck and chin, and a bloodied Bible by her side. The case was initially thought to be open and shut, a tragic murder-suicide committed by Caffell. But a month later, Jeremy Bamber was arrested. He has now been in prison for 41 years, and questions have always swirled regarding the safety of his conviction . These have grown recently. The proper body to examine this is the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) , but it is in disarray ; it has already taken the CCRC four years to consider less than half the evidence that Bamber has submitted to them. In a short series we are considering discrete pieces of evidence, with analysis from forensic experts. C
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