Jeremy Bamber was convicted of the 1985 White House Farm murders and has always protested his innocence – now new evidence including a 999 call and letters could change everything.
Explosive new evidence on the grisly White House Farm murders, including a 999 call and incriminating letters, could prove convicted killer Jeremy Bamber is innocent, 40 years after he was jailed for life.
On 7 August 1985 one of Britain’s most horrific crimes shocked the nation when five members of the Bamber family, including 6-year-old twin boys, were brutally shot dead.
The massacre in the village Tolleshunt D’Arcy, near Maldon, Essex, became known as the infamous White House Farm murders and Jeremy Bamber was convicted for the killings of his parents Nevill and June Bamber, his sister Sheila Caffell and her sons Daniel and Nicholas.
Nevill and June were shot multiple times and the children were shot several times in the head in their beds – one still with his thumb in his mouth, reports the Mirror.
Sheila was found lying on her back with the rifle pointing to her neck, having been shot twice, with a bloodstained Bible next to her. Police at first believed Sheila had killed everyone and then committed suicide, but a silencer with blood traces found in a downstairs cupboard pointed to a third party putting it away after the shootings and Jeremy Bamber was convicted.
Bamber, now 65 and serving a whole life sentence at HMP Wakefield, has always protested his innocence, but Philip Walker, director of the Jeremy Bamber Innocence Campaign, says: “Jeremy knows he’s innocent – it’s the driving force that’s kept him going through 41 difficult years. He’s hopeful this new evidence will be enough to bring this back to court.”
The unearthed evidence, including a 999 phone call, shocking letters apparently written by his mentally ill sister, catastrophic police failures and fresh ballistics reports, could demonstrate that Bamber is innocent in one of the UK’s worst ever miscarriages of justice.
A revelatory documentary, Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence, airing on Channel 5 tomorrow, will run through the claims. It shows how a potential 999 call made at 6.09am from inside the farmhouse, after the police arrived and while Jeremy was outside, could give him the perfect alibi.
In a 2025 New Yorker podcast, PC Nick Millbank revealed: “I was call taking. It came through on the 999 system. Then there was movement or voices in the background.”
Philip says: “If that call took place, then clearly Jeremy is exonerated because he was standing outside surrounded by literally dozens of police while there were signs of life inside.”
A series of disturbing letters apparently written by Sheila, found in a drawer in the farmhouse, have only recently been investigated – at the time they were deemed too illegible.
Former police detective and investigative journalist Mark Williams-Thomas says: “She was very troubled. Five months prior to the murders she was admitted into hospital with psychosis.”
Dr Sohom Das, forensic psychiatrist, confirms in the documentary that Sheila was on medication for schizophrenia and schizo affective disorder and the erratic nature of the letters, which read like a suicide note, are consistent with that diagnosis.
He says: “She had started hearing voices that told her she was somebody else and she had this sense of paranoia. She believed she could somehow project evil on to others, specifically on to her twin sons. And she believed that they wanted to have sex with her and also commit violence.”
In the letters Sheila writes: “It’s a very messy, dirty business. As soon as this is dug up and the public knows, then my darling mummy, with my babies and me, go to our rest.” Expert analysis highlighted in recent reports also concluded that no silencer was on the gun that killed Sheila.
Philip says: “The central plank of the case was built around the moderator, and we now know with absolute certainty from four very distinguished pathologists, and a very well-known firearms expert that there was no moderator on the gun.”
Ballistics expert Philip Boyce examined the gunshot wounds on Sheila’s neck and found no evidence of scorch marks that a silencer would leave at close range.
It has also been discovered that the family owned many silencers, and Jeremy’s uncle Robert Boutflour also had the same blood group as Sheila – the jury were never made aware of this.
Mark says: “If you look at it with a proper analytical approach, the evidence tells you that none of it stacks up.” There is also crucial evidence from firearms officers that not only was the silencer left in a drawer for days by police, but there was astonishing crime scene interference from the senior detective at Essex Police.
PC Neil Davidson alleges: “Chaos reigned wherever DI Ron Cook trod. We used to call him Bumbling Ron for a reason. He was a clumsy sod. He was a nightmare.” He claims that Cook picked up the Bible and put it back in the wrong place.
Philip says: “In 2002, the Court of Appeal drew huge inferences of the Bible placed next to Sheila’s shoulder in an unnatural position, implying it had been placed there. Now we know it wasn’t there, it was actually about 18 inches from her waist on the right hand side.” There are also claims that the second gunshot to Sheila was caused by an accidental discharge of the rifle, cementing a suicide theory.
Bamber’s legal team plans to submit a report demanding that the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) review their original objection and refer the case.
Philip says: “The documentary highlighting the evidence will help. There is no doubt that public pressure is one of the main reasons that miscarriages of justice get overturned.
“This is the longest running miscarriage of justice in English legal history.”
Responding to the allegations, Essex Police refer to the fact that several appeals and reviews have concluded that Bamber is guilty, while the CCRC says they are working to consider additional matters raised in his application.
Jeremy says: “Even today we believe that we’re going to win and I hope we do, and I believe that we will, but it just seems that there are ever more hurdles to overcome.”
*Jeremy Bamber: Proof of Innocence – The Missing Phone Call airs on June 8th at 9pm. Watch/stream on 5.
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