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Bamber team claims twins were found in the corridor in the year 2002
Lomax is saying 'Don't look over there , LOOK over hear and refuse to question why residue from the murder weapon was NOT found on Sheilas hands or nightdress...
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By Scott Lomax
In October 1986 Jeremy Bamber was convicted by a majority of ten to two of the murders of five members of his family. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, with the recommendation that he should serve a minimum of twenty-five years behind bars. Subsequently he was told that his life sentence should mean exactly that. Jeremy has maintained his innocence throughout and has launched a new bid to clear his name, on the basis of compelling new evidence.The Crime
In the early hours of 7 August 1985 the police were called to White House Farm in Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex, having been told by Jeremy Bamber that his adopted father, Ralph, had telephoned him to say that Bamber's sister (a paranoid schizophrenic named Sheila Caffell) had "gone crazy" and had got a gun.
At 07:30, after having been at the farm for a number of hours, members of the Tactical Firearms Unit stormed the building and found five dead bodies. Ralph had been shot eight times and was found in the kitchen.
Sheila Caffell's twin sons were found in their room with one having been shot three times in the head and the other five times in the head.
Ralph's wife, June, was found in the main bedroom where she had been shot seven times. Beside June's bed lay Sheila Caffell, who had been shot twice in the throat and who held an Anschutz rifle in her hands. It appeared she had committed suicide, with the post mortem examination showing that she could have survived for a few minutes after sustaining the first wound but would have died immediately upon sustaining the second. Sheila was known to have considered ending her life, expressed an intention to kill her sons and felt the need to cleanse her mother's ‘evil' mind. It was therefore not surprising that the police believed she killed her family before ending her own life. However, in September 1985 Jeremy was arrested twice and charged with five murders.
Sheila Caffell
It was not surprising that the police originally believed Sheila was responsible for all the deaths. She was a paranoid schizophrenic who had stopped taking her medication. She had told her psychiatrist that she wanted to kill her children, who she called “the Devil’s children.” She had on occasions expressed her intention to kill her mother and had often expressed suicidal thoughts.
It was said at trial that Sheila could not have committed the murders because she was inexperienced with guns. What the jury never heard was that she had gone on shooting holidays with a cousin. It is true that twenty five or twenty six rounds had been fired and that all or all but one had hit their target but most shots had been fired from a few inches away and so, from such a short range, how could she be expected to miss?
Julie Mugford
Julie Mugford was Jeremy’s girlfriend at the time of the deaths. Once he ended their relationship she went to the police with information that led to his initial arrest. The evidence was not thought to be credible and he was released without charge. Yet at trial she provided testimony that formed a part of the prosecution’s case.
She told the court that Jeremy had plotted to kill his family for many months before their deaths. On the eve of the shootings Jeremy told Mugford, "Tonight's the night", she claimed. He later phoned to tell her that everything was going well. It was shown Mugford had become incredibly hurt and upset with the breakdown of the relationship. At one point in time she had tried to smother Jeremy with a pillow, by her own admission, stating "If I can't have you, nobody can."
Mugford named a man who she alleged was hired by Jeremy to carry out the crime. That man was found to have an alibi and he was quickly eliminated from the investigation. There was no evidence to support Mugford’s ‘hit man’ story. When Mugford was shown to be wrong, the police eventually came to the conclusion that the ‘hit man’ story was simply a veiled confession by Jeremy who, they argued, commited the murders himself.
Mugford’s evidence was exceptionally controversial and. It was ultimately circumstantial forensic evidence, found by relatives of Jeremy after a police forensic examination failed to find any evidence against him, that formed the main planks in the prosecution’s case at trial.
The Blood in the Sound Moderator
Days after the shootings one of Jeremy's cousins found a sound moderator (silencer) in a downstairs gun cupboard. Upon close examination later that evening it was noticed that a small amount of blood was present inside the tube and a grey hair was also allegedly adhered to the end. By the time the sound moderator reached a laboratory for testing, the grey hair had disappeared. Prior to it being forensically examined, one of Jeremy’s cousins took the sound moderator apart and removed part of the blood with a razor blade. What affect could such an action have had on the integrity of this exhibit?
Tests on the blood suggested that it might have originated from Sheila Caffell although the prosecution were never able to prove this. The prosecution’s expert admitted that there was a "remote possibility" that the blood could have been a mixture from Ralph and June Bamber. If the blood was Sheila's then this meant she could not have committed suicide, because if she did kill herself how did the sound moderator find its way downstairs? It was this evidence that allegedly provided the proof that Sheila Caffell could not have committed the murders and therefore somebody else must have been responsible. That somebody else, the court was told, had to be Jeremy Bamber because of his account of the telephone conversation with his father.
At trial it was suggested that the blood was Sheila's because of the presence of an AK1 enzyme in the flake of blood. Of those who lost their lives as a result of the White House Farm tragedy, only Sheila had the AK1 enzyme in her blood. You might think this is proof that the blood in the sound moderator came from Sheila and therefore she could not have committed suicide, but you would be wrong.
DNA tests show that the blood was 3500 times more likely to have been a mixture of a male's blood with June Bamber's blood, than Sheila Caffell's. And the AK1 enzyme can be innocently explained by the presence of two types of animal blood on the end of the sound moderator, though this information was never disclosed to the defence until recently. At trial the police’s expert denied finding animal blood but handwritten notes prove otherwise.
The AK1 enzyme is present in many animals. If animal blood managed to find its way on to the end of the sound moderator, could it not have also managed to find its way into the sound moderator?
Furthermore, documents recently obtained by Jeremy’s defence team show that the sound moderator was dismantled and reassembled incorrectly before it was tested. This new evidence shows that the key forensic evidence at trial was treated in a very cavalier way. By changing the arrangement of baffle plates within the sound moderator, the accuracy of interpretations about the blood within the moderator and its position in the sound moderator, is significantly affected.
The Windows Issue
All of the doors to the farmhouse were locked from the inside when the police stormed the building and examined it. According to Jeremy Bamber's relatives who undertook their own investigation, it was possible to gain access to the farmhouse through one of the windows and indeed it is claimed that one of the windows was found to be insecure. Earlier police reports innocently explain this.
On 7 November 1985 Detective Superintendent Ainsley wrote, "As stated, there was no apparent entry to or exit from the house D/Chief Inspector did in fact examine the inside of all the ground floor windows and noted that they were all shut and secure on their latches. ... It seems, however, that after the inspection by DCI Jones some person partially opened the transom window in the kitchen and also opened the catch on the ground floor bathroom window. I have been unable to discover the person responsible ... "
It was alleged Jeremy entered the farmhouse via the window for the downstairs toilet and that he climbed out of a window in the kitchen after having killed his family. It was argued at trial that both of these windows had been found insecure, but numerous documents unavailable at the trial show that when the police entered the building all of the windows were closed and locked. If they were locked, and all of the doors were locked, then how did Jeremy get into the house to carry out the murders? It would appear that the killer never left the building alive.
An Alibi
If Jeremy was the murderer he must have committed his crimes between midnight and 03:00 on the morning of 7 August 1985. This is a fact as agreed at trial.
From 03:15 onwards Jeremy was speaking to the police on his phone at his cottage in Goldhanger (three and a half miles from White House Farm), driving to White House Farm and then he was in the company of police officers until long after the bodies were discovered. The many bullets fired at each of his alleged victims would have meant that they died within moments of being shot. How, therefore, could the police have seen someone moving within the farmhouse at 03:45 and later, at 05:25, could they have been conversing with someone inside the building? Whilst he was outside White House Farm with two police officers a figure was seen moving in the main bedroom. At trial the figure was dismissed as a shadow or trick of light, but now documentary evidence shows the officer who made the sighting recorded seeing ‘an unidentified male.' A log of radio communications shows that at 05:25 the tactical firearms officers were ‘in conversation' with a person inside White House Farm. How could this be if everyone inside was dead? And five minutes later extra firearms officers were called for an "urgent" situation. Why was it so urgent, and why was backup requested if everyone inside was dead? What was so urgent at 5:30 that was not urgent an hour or more earlier?
It is known, from studying photographs never shown to the jury, that Sheila Caffell was still bleeding after 09:25 when photographs of the scene of the crime were taken. Indeed it was noted that blood was running down from her mouth. How could this be if she had been shot at least six hours earlier? People stop bleeding shortly after death. Their blood would not stay red and running as can clearly be seen in photographs given to Jeremy’s legal team two decades after his conviction.
Remember, if Sheila was alive after 03:00 then Jeremy Bamber must be innocent. If Sheila was still alive then Jeremy could not have been responsible for her death or the deaths of anyone else inside the building.
On the basis of highly significant new evidence Jeremy Bamber's case is being reviewed by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. A conviction can only be justified if there is the belief of guilt, beyond reasonable doubt, upon considering the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The jury at Jeremy’s trial were deprived of important evidence, so much so that they only knew part of the story. The new evidence builds a more complete picture and surely warrants an appeal. It has never been scrutinised in court and this is a situation that needs to be changed.
