Jeremy Bamber begs ITV to postpone White House Farm after claiming ‘new evidence proves he didn’t murder his family’

LAWYERS for Jeremy Bamber begged ITV bosses to postpone a new show about the White House Farm killings because they claim new evidence proves he didn’t murder his family.

The convicted murderer, 58, has maintained his innocence since being caged for the mass killing of five relatives in a remote Essex farmhouse in 1985.

But last month his lawyers served a Judicial Review application against the Crown Prosecution Service over claims they refused to disclose key documentation to the defence.

It comes after ITV announced they will be showing a six-part series about the killings staring Stephen Graham and Mark Addy that begins tomorrow night.

The Sun Online can reveal that Bamber’s team contacted ITV so they could provide the channel with “brand new forensic reports and fresh evidence”.

However, ITV refused to engage and his solicitors were not consulted or asked to assist in any way.

Bamber’s supporters now feel they have been “ignored” and say the show will be “based on factually incorrect material”.

“FRESH EVIDENCE”

The Jeremy Bamber Campaign said: “We first became aware of a planned ITV drama about Jeremy’s case in December 2017.

“We took immediate steps to offer our assistance by contacting Kim Varvell at Production Company ‘New Pictures’, Commissioning Editor Kevin Lygo at ITV and writer Chris Mrska.

“We were willing to provide access to brand new forensic reports, our team of scientists, the case material, fresh evidence, and Jeremy and his legal team.

“Our offers were ignored, and we believe therefore, that the drama can only be based on factually incorrect and very out of date material.

“Our campaign is not only about proving Jeremy’s innocence, but protecting the memory of his much-loved family who will undoubtedly have their characters dissected and denigrated in order to make sensationalised television.

We were willing to provide access to brand new forensic reports, our team of scientists, the case material, fresh evidence, and Jeremy and his legal team

Jeremy Bamber Campaign

“This will not benefit anyone, least of all Jeremy in his fight for justice, but will simply be a money pot for ITV, reaping in millions of pounds from a family tragedy that is still unresolved.

“We need to make it clear that the Jeremy Bamber Campaign, Jeremy, and his legal team, do not endorse this drama.

“Mark Newby, Jeremy’s solicitor, has written to ITV requesting that owing to the sensitivity in the current legal approaches that have been made to the High Court that the drama at the very least be postponed.”

The lawyer added: “We have written to the producers of the drama series and invited them to postpone the broadcast of this series whilst matters are resolved in the High Court.

“We have intimated that we are concerned that such a drama series by its nature will place a fictitious narrative in the public domain which may be counter productive to the administration of justice in due course.

CAGED

“We sincerely hope that in the interests of fairness and justice that ITV accede to this request.”

Bamber is locked up in top security Wakefield prison in West Yorks.

He was jailed in 1986 after being found guilty of the murders of his parents, his sister and her six-year-old twin sons.

The shooting of the family in August 1985, in the parents’ farmhouse in Essex, came to be known as the White House Farm murders.

The prosecution was able to persuade the jury that, after committing the murders to secure a large inheritance, Bamber had placed the gun in the hands of his 28-year-old sister, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, to make the scene appear to be a murder–suicide.

An ITV spokesman told The Sun Online: “There is still considerable public interest in the murders at White House Farm.

“This drama series is based on extensive research by the producers, and draws on the memoir of Colin Caffell, the father of the victims Daniel and Nicholas Caffell, In Search of the Rainbow’s End, and The Murders at White House Farm by journalist Carol Ann Lee.”