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Full
Sutton’s Bamber appeal is rejected
The
following article appeared in the Pocklington Post
on The notorious inmate,
serving a whole life term at Full Sutton Prison, has always protested his
innocence and claims his schizophrenic sister Sheila Caffell shot her family
before turning the gun on herself in a remote Essex farmhouse. But after reviewing material
provided by Bamber’s legal team, the Criminal Cases Review Commission
(CCRC) said it had reached “a provisional decision not to refer his
murder convictions to the Court of Appeal”. The CCRC said it had sent
Bamber’s legal team an 89-page document “setting out in detail
the Commission’s analysis of the case and the reasons for the
provisional decision”. “As is usual with
commission cases reaching this stage, Mr Bamber and his team have been
invited to respond to the commission’s case analysis and the reasons
for its provisional decision,” a spokesman said. “Given the lengthy and
highly complex nature of the case, we have given Mr Bamber and his team three
months in which to respond to our provisional decision (usually the period
for a case of this type is 40 working days). The commission will then consider
whatever representations it receives from Mr Bamber and his team before
making a final decision on whether or nor to refer the case for a fresh
appeal hearing.” Last year, it emerged that
photographs, which were used as prosecution evidence against Bamber, were to
be reviewed after an expert claimed there were discrepancies on crime scene
pictures. Bamber’s defence team claimed police photos of the murder
scene could help the mass killer overturn his convictions They said the new images
cast doubt on part of the prosecution’s case and showed the gun
seemingly resting in different positions on Ms Caffell’s body and
around the bedroom. They also claimed that
because the trial jury heard he had re-staged the crime scene, the photos
show that he was not given a fair trial or at least raise questions about
inconsistencies in the evidence. Bamber has been behind bars
for 24 years for shooting his wealthy adopted parents, June and Neville, his
sister Ms Caffell and her six-year-old twin sons Daniel and Nicholas at their
farmhouse in Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, on 7 August 1986. The 50-year-old was given a
whole life tariff after being convicted of the murders in October 1986. In 2009, Bamber lost a Court
of Appeal challenge against the order that he must die behind bars. He has
twice lost appeals against conviction. Author and campaigner for
Bamber, Scott Lomax, contacted the Post to express his disappointment. He
said: “Having worked on the campaign for eight years I am very
disappointed by the CCRC’s decision. “I am convinced that
the new evidence in Jeremy’s case was compelling and should have been
assessed at the Court of Appeal. “I have no doubt that
it would have shown that a miscarriage of justice had taken place. The fight
will go on.”
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