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13,885. In the dead of the night on 7th August 1975 five members of the same family were brutally murdered in their farm house. Two six-year-old boys and three adults were shot dead in cold blood. Officers believed Sheila Caffell had killed her family and then turned the gun on herself. But the twist that followed thrust this horrific crime into the headlines and turned the focus to her brother – Jeremy Bamber. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Crimes that Shook Britain: Jeremy Bamber
13,886. Is the right person behind bars? (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,887. A tragic young woman with severe mental illness had repeatedly shot both her children and parents. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,888. Friction within the Bamber family soon emerged. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,889. The weapon that lay with Sheila Caffell was a .22 calibre rifle ... It was able to accommodate a silencer or sound moderator like the one discovered in the gun cupboard ... Two days later police collected the items the cousins had discovered. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,890. New evidence that puts a twist on this heinous crime ... On the morning of the tragedy Jeremy Bamber was adamant there was movement within the farm ... Police telephone logs from the evening state officers were in conversation with somebody inside the farm at 5.25 a.m. ... So initial inspection of the property reported two bodies downstairs and three bodies upstairs; yet by the time of Jeremy Bamber’s trial that had changed. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,891. Sheila’s blood was still running from her wounds. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,892. Two documents show a silencer was collected on 11th September, but other family documents contradict these saying one was found a month earlier on 10th August. Which account is true? Were two silencers actually found? (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,893. A large part of Jeremy Bamber’s trial is flawed. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,894. The enzyme AK1 found by the forensic expert on the silencer and attributed to Sheila Caffell can in fact be found in dozens of animals including rabbits. This was never outlined in the trial. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,895. So hurt was Julie at the breakdown of their relationship she admitted to officers she had tried to smother Jeremy with a pillow. It took one month after the murders for her to go to police with her story. Bamber’s account of that fateful evening has never changed. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,896. Only Jeremy’s call was discussed at her trial. Now we are able to reveal this document - a phone call from Neville Bamber to police at 3.26 from White House Farm - which states ‘Daughter gone berserk and has got hold of one of the guns’. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,897. It [the silencer] was never on the gun at any time that night. There is no way Sheila got it out of the cupboard and used it, then removed it and replaced it back in the cupboard. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Jeremy Bamber
13,898. Jeremy Bamber’s girlfriend at the time of the tragedies said he had discussed ways of getting rid of the family ... Her conscience getting the better of her. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Detective Inspector Bob Miller, Essex rozzer
13,899. In the English county of Essex just north-east of London there is a small area that has seen no fewer than eighteen murders in the last forty years. The most widely publicised took place in White House Farm near Tolleshunt d’Arcy on 7th August 1985. A young man, Jeremy Bamber, phoned the local police station to say he had just had a call from the farm that had frightened him. It was his father, Neville Bamber, who said, ‘Your sister’s gone crazy and she’s got the gun.’ (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Great Crimes & Trials: Jeremy Bamber
13,900. Daniel still had his thumb in his mouth. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,901. She started having delusions of being Joan of Arc, the Virgin Mary and a white witch. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,902. Sent off to boarding school, he was rejected and took his resentment out on younger boys, and was regarded as a bully. Perhaps resentment festered as he thought his parents loved Sheila, now engaged to Colin Caffell, more than him. He worked on the farm but at night he got up to whatever fun he could find locally when his chores were over. He was heard to complain about his parents and the wages he was paid. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,903. He had a stream of local girls at his cottage. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,904. The gun which Sheila had supposedly used was produced, along with a silencer with a hair, supposedly hers, on it. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,905. Sheila had a delusion she was possessed by the devil. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,906. He insisted he had a loving relationship with his parents. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,907. New forensic reports are casting doubt on his conviction. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Bamber – The New Evidence: Tonight
13,908. Bamber has always protested his innocence. In 2002 his case went to the Court of Appeal but the conviction was upheld. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,909. He says he sees something moving in the upstairs’ windows. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,910. 7.45 a.m. Armed police storm the house and discover five bodies. Sheila had two shotgun wounds to her throat. An open Bible was by her side. The rifle lay across her chest. The scene suggested Sheila had shot her family and turned the gun on herself. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,911. Bamber was arrested, charged and convicted on five counts of murder. He has already spent twenty-six years in jail. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,912. The discovery of a silencer was an important part of the prosecution case. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,913. Later there were concerns over the thoroughness of the evidence gathered. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,914. Bamber’s legal team now says it has strong evidence the silencer was not on, and therefore Sheila could have killed herself. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,915. The results suggested that no silencer was on the rifle when Sheila was shot. ibid.
13,916. Bamber’s legal team also question the evidence of ex-girlfriend and key witness Julie Mugford. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,917. Bamber’s new legal team believe that if the [Julie’s] deal was signed by the end of the trial it could have had an impact on the verdict. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.
13,918. The worst miscarriage of justice the British criminal justice system has ever experienced. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Simon McKay, Jeremy Bamber’s lawyer
13,919. Jeremy Bamber shot dead his sister, mother, father and six-year-old twin nephews in cold blood. He manipulated the murder scene. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) Slaughter at the Farm: Countdown to Murder, Channel 5 2013
13,920. Sheila's mental health started to fail ... She was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. (Murder & Miscarriage of Justice) ibid.