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Bamber appeal rolls on
The
following article appeared in the Pocklington Post on 26 May 2011: LAWYERS on behalf
of a convicted murderer in Full Sutton Prison have submitted their final
legal arguments to bring his case to the Court of Appeal. The team
working for Jeremy Bamber have sent their amended documents to the Criminal
Case Review Commission (CCRC), who earlier this year made a provisional
decision not to refer the controversial case, but gave them additional time
to carry out scientific work to support claims that Bamber is innocent of the
crimes. Bamber, who is
now 50, was jailed in 1986 for the murder of his family at a farmhouse in the
south of However, author
Scott Lomax has raised serious questions over the validity of the evidence
used to convict him and helped him launch the appeal. Mr Lomax said:
“The process to get Jeremy Bamber’s case to this stage in
fighting against the criminal justice system has taken many years and a
tremendous amount of hard work. I am confident his case will now be referred
because the additional work which has taken place in the last few months will
answer any doubts that the CCRC had about Bamber’s claims. “A large
amount of work has now been undertaken to support claims that evidence used
at Bamber’s trial was flawed and should not have been allowed to be
used against him. “Once the
legal submissions are made the CCRC will begin their final review which will
ultimately refer Bamber’s case back to the Court of Appeal or will rule
that he cannot launch a new appeal against his conviction. I would anticipate
the CCRC making their decision during the course of the summer. “I have
no doubt that Jeremy Bamber is an innocent man, having been privy to this new
evidence. It is quite simply mind blowing and shows that a terrible injustice
has taken place. What continues to amaze me is that there are still hundreds
of thousands of police documents and more than 200 crime scene photographs
which Jeremy Bamber’s legal team are not allowed to see.” “So much
has been learnt over the past 25 years which, in my opinion, shows the
criminal justice system made monumental errors. We have to wonder how many
other pieces of evidence in Bamber’s favour could exist in those police
reports, statements, notebooks and crime scene photographs which are being
kept from Bamber’s legal team. Bamber was
jailed for the murders of his mother, father, sister and nephews who were
shot dead at a farmhouse in 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. His defence
maintained that the sister Sheila Caffell, a paranoid schizophrenic, had
killed her parents and sons before committing suicide. 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. The body of Sheila Caffell was
found upstairs but a silencer said to have been used in the murders was found
in a gun cupboard downstairs.
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