This week, audio footage was released by the New Yorker magazine, which seemed to exonerate Bamber, who has been in prison for 40 years. Could this lead to his release?
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n the millions of pages disclosed to Jeremy Bamber over the decades, in his bid to prove his innocence of one of the 20th century’s most notorious crimes, PC Nick Milbank is barely mentioned. But this week, new evidence emerged that the late police officer held an essential clue to what happened on the night of the massacre at Whitehouse Farm on 7 August 1985.
In 1986, Bamber, now 64, was convicted of murdering his wealthy farmer-landowner parents Nevill and June, his sister Sheila Caffell, and her twin six-year-old sons, Daniel and Nicholas.
Essex police initially treated the crime as a murder-suicide. Caffell, the adopted daughter of the Bambers, a model who was 28 and known as Bambi, had recently been in a psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed with schizophrenia. On the evening of the murders, her parents are thought to have told her that her twin sons should be fostered because she was no longer capable of looking after them. This was said to be her greatest fear. Early newspaper reports suggested she had killed her parents and the twins, before killing herself.
