White House Farm Murder, Bloodline and Betrayal Season 1 Episode 1

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00:00um my father's phone from white house farm and he sounded really frightened

00:07he says my sister's gone crazy and she's got a gun

00:15it's one of the most extraordinary cases that i've ever come across

00:24what we see in the house is a scene of utter devastation it's a massacre

00:29a dead man in the kitchen two dead women in one bedroom two dead children in another

00:37truly tragic scene how could this have happened and why kill an entire family

00:44they've all been shot one of the people is found with a rifle on her chest the police thinks the gun

00:54is a little bit of an awkward position this scene of crime looked too good it's one of the british

01:02crime cases that continues to fascinate people decades after it happened

01:07essex is kind of fascinating because in many people's minds is associated with what one could

01:30call working-class culture but behind that sits this very old-fashioned conservative community

01:38of really landed gentry there are really quite smart areas and there's these ribbons of villages

01:45around this rural area

01:47you've got this beautiful english countryside very typical english small villages and tolson darcy was a

01:59very small village about 800 900 people lived there at the time in the middle of that you've got white

02:06house farm the georgian farmhouse set in hundreds of acres and traditional english farmer and his family living there

02:15the bamba family were a very well-known wealthy family they did a lot of work in the local community so they were liked they were a liked and respected family

02:29neville bamba was a well-known local figure he'd served in the raf he was a magistrate and he was a farmer

02:40neville is a gun owner he has lots of guns on his property he's used to going out shooting i guess rabbits

02:45and then a small game and he keeps all the guns very you know carefully locked away cleans them he looks

02:52after them he was a big man he was about six foot four well built very strong but also someone who was

03:01apparently prone to bouts of of anger

03:04and then beside him we have his wife june who is the same age as neville they're both 61 in 1985

03:18she's very very religious she's become increasingly religious over the years you could say almost a religious mania

03:25neville and june bamba couldn't have children of their own so they adopted two children jeremy and sheila

03:38sheila had a difficult life

03:45she had a very toxic relationship with her mom she was a fun-loving party girl and her mom didn't like

03:59didn't like this there was found a carving in a cupboard in her bedroom saying i hate this place

04:05and it was thought that sheila had done that and that was an expression of her distress at being in

04:11white house farm she fell pregnant out of wedlock and because of her mom's very religious kind of

04:21views this was something that they did not agree with sheila's a striking looking woman and for a time

04:29she pursued a modeling career she went by the nickname bambi which was i think you know a sort of play on

04:36the words of her surname bamba but she was known as sheila kafel after her husband colin kafel

04:44they have two twin sons two boys who are aged six in 1985 and they are daniel and nicholas

04:51and then neville and june adopted jeremy who was the younger

05:04jeremy bamba was a handsome young man you could probably describe him as a bit of a ladies man

05:10you might say and someone who liked the good life by all accounts he spent many years traveling in australia

05:18and new zealand and had then returned to essex and settled down jeremy was living up the road in

05:25another little village called gold hanger julie mugford had been going out with jeremy bamba since late

05:331983. she was a student in her 20s a good-looking brunette someone who appeared to enjoy life and

05:43enjoyed being around jeremy she's three years younger than jeremy and they've been dating for a while

05:49a few months and they seem to be quite thick together but there was always a sense with jeremy that he was

05:56after something a bit more he enjoyed the good things in life he divided opinion some people found

06:03him really likeable some people found him rather arrogant and objectionable

06:18essex in the 1980s was thatcher country this is the height of margaret thatcher's powers when she was

06:28promoting the idea of individualism entrepreneurship making money loads of money like harry enfield

06:38with that came this sense of rather ebullient conservatism and it was reflected in the growth

06:44of what was called the yuppie i had the fortune or misfortune to be living in london at that time

06:51and you would see all these young men in their stripes shirts going off to the city

06:55to do their jobs and then coming back to the bars and drinking and being very loud

07:00and just behaving quite badly as if they were kind of entitled jeremy bamber perhaps encapsulated that

07:08in a sense he was someone who was aspiring to be better believed that you know you had to move on

07:15and try and earn as much money as you could or make as much money as you could he was captured by this

07:20idea of individualism every person in it for themselves never mind about society margaret

07:26thatcher didn't believe in that and i don't think that jeremy bamber did either he's had a public

07:33school education and he seems quite confident quite arrogant and he's also quite clearly a risk taker

07:41he grows and deals on a very small scale in cannabis he just seems a little off the leash if you like a

07:49little untamed neville wanted jeremy to work hard to achieve things he failed at school initially but

08:04then he repeated his o-levels and a-levels at college he then went off traveling neville when

08:12he came back he made him work at the farm and this is something that jeremy didn't like he was not

08:18earning very much money and he was being made to work hard jeremy just wanted the money and that's where

08:25they would often clash he has a part share in a family enterprise that is owned by various members

08:37of the wider family so june's sister pan who was married to robert baltflower and their own children

08:45david and anne and it's called the osia caravan park jeremy staged a burglary in order he says

08:57later admitting that he'd done it to try and recoup some money that i think he felt had been taken

09:03from him and from the from the caravan park and in doing so he was stealing from in effect the family

09:12from his relatives not from someone else and that again told you something about his character

09:19he stole nearly a thousand pounds which will be multiple thousands of pounds today it was a huge

09:24sum of money at the time and he appears to have spent that money on food holidays drink he seemed

09:33to like the good life and that's probably how he was financing it that really raised concerns about

09:38what lengths he was prepared to go to if he was able to carry out a robbery against his own family

09:47so by the mid-1980s we're looking at a family that was really very dysfunctional you've got this very

09:54seriously old mother you've got this aloof father one can imagine the tensions that there must have been

09:59in that house when they were all there together

10:15on the evening of the 6th of august it's a sleepy summer in essex countryside is really at its most

10:23beautiful there's a sense that not much is happening because there's no school people are away on their

10:29holidays but clearly the farm still goes on and has to be looked after if you were an outsider looking

10:37in you see this apparently idyllic family set up you've got the mother and father you've got their

10:43their daughter with her twin son she's come to visit them for the weekend and you've got their their son

10:49jeremy who's also there so they're all gathered at the farmhouse at white house farm jeremy bamber

10:55is shooting rabbits he took one of the guns his father's guns from the gun cupboard but in the

11:01event he didn't shoot any rabbits so he came back in and he says left the gun propped up somewhere in

11:07the downstairs of the house there are a couple of phone calls to the farmhouse and everything seems

11:13to be in order except there is an indication that neville bamber is troubled by something

11:20his secretary gives him a call and she senses from the way that he answers the phone that there's

11:26been some row or some argument that she thinks that that's a bit unusual and then events unfold the

11:32following morning they had dinner and then jeremy declared that he was going home and we don't know

11:39what time anyone went to bed because we never heard from them again um my father's phone from white

11:56house farm and he sounded really frightened and he says my sister's gone crazy and she's got a gun

12:09Tyп Türkin

12:15Tolleson Darcy's a very pretty little village nice tight community from a uniform officer's point of

12:23view um you talking about burglaries um domestics

12:29in terms of murder um one or two a year would be normal um that's in the whole county not just in one

12:39particular area like Chelmsford and Whitlam. It was certainly not common.

12:47Around 3.30 in the morning, Jeremy Bamber calls the local police station. He doesn't

12:53dial 999 for some reason, he calls the local police station's direct number.

12:59The duty inspector explained to me someone had tried to phone Whitlam Police Station,

13:05that was Jeremy Bamber, and had been switched through to Chelmsford Police Station and that's

13:12when he told them the story of his father having phoned up in a panic and saying that his sister

13:20had gone nutty. So the inspector at Chelmsford basically wanted us to go out to Whitehouse Farm

13:28and see what the hell was going on.

13:29I was lucky in that Steve Mile, one of my colleagues, had been a local officer out there,

13:38he knew Whitehouse Farm and he knew the area like the back of his hand.

13:43The duty inspector had said he'd asked Jeremy Bamber to meet us at the farm.

13:48We're about a mile and a half from the farm when there's this little white voxel on the left.

14:00He's going so slow, if he'd been any slower he'd have been stopped. Steve takes our car around him

14:07and we just, he puts his foot down and we proceed to Whitehouse Farm. We stop just through the main gate

14:15of Whitehouse Farm, short of the main farm buildings. We'd been there about three, four, five minutes

14:24when the same white voxel turns up and parks next to us and it's Jeremy, so it's obviously him

14:31that we had just passed. He is on the road from Tulsant to the farm itself.

14:36Jeremy said that he tried to call his father back but the line was engaged, the phone had gone dead.

14:51He said as though somebody's put their hand on the cradle like that and he made the, like that. I

14:59didn't know how you would tell that someone had done that rather than putting the phone back on the

15:03cradle because I'm starting to form the pin. I said, and you phoned Whitton Police Station?

15:10He said, yeah. I said, why didn't you dial 999? That gets you through in an emergency very quickly.

15:18He said, I just didn't think of it.

15:23The police officers in the car and Jeremy Bamber think that Sheila is in the house

15:28with a gun and no one knows any more than that than what Jeremy Bamber has told them.

15:34He's painting a really bad picture of her mental state for us. She's under psychiatric treatment.

15:42She's in and out of mental hospital all the time. Doesn't go too much into his relationship with us.

15:49But that what sticks out is that he's, he's really ramming down our throat that she's mentally unhinged.

15:58Sheila was a loving mother, but she still struggled very much with her mental health. And that was

16:04something that was a continual problem for her. Originally, she struggled with depression, anxiety.

16:10However, then she became very psychotic. And she was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.

16:19First of all, schizoaffective disorder, but then schizophrenia, because she suffered very much

16:25with delusions and hallucinations. And that's what led her to spending time actually as an

16:30inpatient in hospital. She was known to have temper tantrums. She would go into, you know, awful,

16:39awful delusions. And that very much impacted her relationship with her husband leading to their

16:44divorce. Sheila and Jeremy had a difficult relationship. They could be close at times,

16:58but they also argued. She has a lot of mental health problems.

17:02Jeremy thought of Sheila as a nuisance. He also was very dismissive of her mental health.

17:11He also resented the attention that she got. So when she would come out of hospital,

17:18he would say things like, it's all about Sheila. And he was irritated by that. I think Jeremy is a

17:25character that was irritated by anybody who took the spotlight off him.

17:40Over the next four hours or so, the police surround the farmhouse. They don't go inside.

17:46They're worried that someone is in that farmhouse, possibly Sheila, with a gun. And so they wait outside.

17:58At that time, he's fairly laid back. He keeps trying to get us. He said, go in and see what's

18:04happening. No, I am not going in. And I don't know how many times he tried to do that.

18:10There are moments when Jeremy Bamber appears very concerned and worried about what's going on in the

18:17farmhouse, as he would be. But there are other moments when he appears to joke with the police

18:24and talks about giving one officer a really nice car or something from the caravan site,

18:31when this is all sort of over. I mean, a bizarre conversation to have.

18:35So conflicting accounts about what his demeanors actually like.

18:45We have to be very careful when we talk about normal reactions, though, because when we talk

18:50about normal reaction, we're thinking about how we would behave and how the majority of people would

18:56behave. I think it's really important that we consider the baseline behaviour. How would that person

19:02usually act in situations? So some people are naturally calmer. Most people, however, would be

19:09stressed and therefore be acting more anxious in that kind of situation.

19:247.45, the armed police officers break into the house.

19:287.45, the armed police officers break into the house. They discover a scene of utter carnage.

19:39In the kitchen is Neville Bamber. He's been shot eight times. He's got injuries to his body

19:50and the kitchen is in a state of disarray, as though there's been some kind of struggle.

19:58Neville is found in the kitchen over a broken chair.

20:04There's also evidence of blunt force trauma to his face and an item that's thought to be part of

20:09the stock of a gun is found very close to his body.

20:14This is a fit man, good physical health, relatively robust. It suggests to me that he was aware

20:23of the care of the shooter. And therefore there's been that physical interaction directly between

20:30the two that involves him being injured, after which he is shot multiple times.

20:40The officers go up the stairs. At the top of the stairs, the main bedroom. And in the doorway,

20:45the main bedroom is Neville's wife, Jeremy's mother, June.

20:53She's been shot seven times. Her body is very bloodied. She's wearing a night dress.

21:00It's a terrible sight.

21:12Then they encounter the bodies of Sheila's sons, Nicholas and Daniel. They're lying in their bed.

21:19They've both been shot as well.

21:29For any police officer going into that scene, it would have been utterly shocking to see two boys,

21:36six years, six years old, in their beds, shot dead, in cold blood.

21:47It's hard to think how they would have responded to that.

21:55And then Sheila finally is in the bedroom on the floor beside June.

22:00It's hard to think how they would have been shot.

22:02Across her body is a gun, a rifle, a .22 Anschutz rifle that is the very same gun

22:11that Jeremy Bamber had taken out that night to shoot the rabbits with.

22:17She's got two head wounds, which is a bit unusual if you shoot yourself in the head.

22:22We don't have the detail now of exactly where those bullets passed.

22:31What we know is that one of the shots would lead to eventual fatal bleeding,

22:40but would not immediately incapacitate Sheila.

22:44The second one was described as being immediately lethal.

22:47Clearly, this is a huge, devastating event and not something that Essex police

22:54or any other police force are used to.

22:57I mean, an entire family has been massacred in their own house.

23:0715 minutes later, a senior officer comes to me and says,

23:13the firearms team are in there, they're all dead.

23:14Can you go and tell Jeremy that?

23:20I go and break the news. I said, I'm terribly sorry to tell you, but as we said,

23:26it's quite bad in there. And I said, there's no one alive in there. All your family's dead.

23:32I've told people several times, very bad news like that in the course of my career is part of the job.

23:43And he sort of coughs a bit and starts crying. And I hated to say it. It's the first thing that hit me.

23:52I thought, that is not genuine. When you break bad news to some people, in my experience, more often than not,

24:02they don't take it in right away. And their demeanour doesn't change much. They just go into shock and it's not sunk in.

24:15You do not get a reaction like that. I thought he's putting this on because he's expecting me to see him like this.

24:25He's then taken away by senior officers who then need to talk to him more. And that's the last I ever spoke to him.

24:33You would have thought in a case like this, where Jeremy Bamber has made the call and was in the farmhouse earlier that night,

24:43and was potentially a suspect, that his cottage would have been searched, his belongings looked at and examined.

24:51But none of that happened at all. There was no formal interview with him at that stage.

24:57All the forensic opportunities that might have existed in terms of Bamber were lost.

25:05I should have been off duty at two o'clock and my colleague should have been off duty at six.

25:11So we're stood down. They don't need us anymore.

25:15We decided we'd just go back to Wimpley Station. We were due to come back on at two o'clock that afternoon anyway.

25:22We get back in the car. We're driving out of the main gates. I hadn't had a chat with Steve or Rob, the other two guys, while we were there.

25:35And almost without prompting one another, we said, it's him that's done it, isn't it?

25:52Police were called to the isolated White House farm yesterday morning by Sheila's brother Jeremy, who lives at nearby Goldhanger.

26:00The farm lane had been sealed off and a white van drove away with the five bodies.

26:14The detectives take over. So it's now their case and they've got to work out what's happened.

26:19Detective Chief Inspector Taft Jones is appointed to lead the inquiry.

26:25DCI Taft Jones is one of Essex's senior police officers.

26:29He's been around for years. He's reached this high rank DCI.

26:34People have respected him for the work that he's done.

26:40He very quickly concludes that it's a murder suicide case, that in fact the scene is exactly what it

26:46appears to be. And Sheila has killed all the rest of her family and then herself.

26:59Ah, gosh. Now, I've seen this before and it is horrific. Is that a staged scene? I don't know.

27:10But it does show that she could have pulled the trigger. But could she have reloaded?

27:18I don't know. I don't think so.

27:22Now this is the kitchen. Gosh. Gosh. The horrors that happened in there.

27:31Those poor kids.

27:32The horrors. A lot of people forget the kids. Two six-year-olds. That's a tragedy on its own.

27:42I started in journalism at 19. I was covering murders, suicides, all kinds of big crimes. And then

27:53you came to White House Farm.

28:03It was a policeman, who I had contacts with before, who rang me up and said,

28:09I think you'd like this one, Stephen, which is an unfortunate choice of words.

28:13But there's quite a big crime scene, Tolson Darcy. I said, what is it then? Well, that means nothing to me.

28:21Is it a big fire, an arson or something? He said, no, it's bigger than that.

28:26So I said to the cameraman, I said, get that. We're going. And we shot off to Tolson Darcy.

28:33It starts to emerge. It's not just one fatality. It's five. And my antennae went up and you start to sit up straight.

28:46How could this have happened? And why kill an entire family? And I had so many questions in my head.

28:54I talked to one contact and he said, oh, it's a murder-suicide. I said, oh, what? The father's

29:03killed. He said, no, no, no. It's the daughter. She was supposed to be a model, very slight person.

29:11And I was incredibly suspicious of that verdict. Because this is, to kill, you know, sort of four

29:19people, five people, including yourself, um, for a young woman is extremely difficult. I mean,

29:27you see stories of, you know, the, the, the toe in the finger guard of a shotgun or something,

29:33but not a, not a rifle. I mean, that, that's almost impossible.

29:41This is where everything starts to go wrong. The way that the crime scene was managed,

29:46the response from the police initially was all wrong and would be done completely differently now

29:52by the standards of today. The preservation of the crime scene was diabolical, quite frankly.

29:59Items and objects and bodies were moved around. Um, the evidence wasn't preserved with the same

30:05rigour that it should have been. The standards that we now see routinely in murder investigations

30:12were not applied back in 1985. In the modern era, forensic pathology and forensic science are

30:23extremely important in solving homicides. In 2025, we had particular blood pattern people, ballistic people,

30:34all of these different specialties. The seventies and eighties, from a forensic point of view,

30:39was a different world. There was no DNA. It hadn't even been thought of, which is now crucial to many

30:46cases. So a lot different to the way the case would be investigated now.

30:54The fact that those decisions to consider it a suicide were made so quickly

31:00is the key fundamental problem with this case. When you have got five bodies in a house, two of which are

31:12children, no quick decision should ever have been made. A huge number of bullets have been fired.

31:2125 in all. The magazine for the rifle that has been used in the killings only takes 10 bullets,

31:31so it must have been reloaded twice. Obviously, that takes some expertise.

31:37This was a question mark as well. Originally, on the night of the murders, Jeremy Bamber said to a police

31:44officer that Sheila had used guns and has actually shot guns with him. He later said that he didn't

31:54recall saying that and other family members said that she had no experience of using guns.

32:00But where is the gun? It's across Sheila Cackle's body.

32:08One of the mysteries right from the beginning is the fact that although Sheila appears to have shot

32:12herself, she's got two bullet wounds. Purely from the pathology, it is physically possible

32:22for you to shoot yourself twice. If the shot is not fatal and it doesn't incapacitate you,

32:30then you can do it again. It is entirely physically possible. Whether it is particularly plausible

32:39that somebody who has shot themselves in the neck to an extent that they are essentially bleeding to

32:48death, to then repeat that through the pain and the shock is a little more difficult to countenance.

32:56Looking at the death of Neville Bamber is really important in this case. He was found in the kitchen

33:03and he was slumped over. But there were also signs of an assault.

33:10This says to me that you're looking at somebody quite strong. This is an adult male in good physical

33:19fitness. It takes some effort to physically overpower them. Sheila Bamber was very slight.

33:27She was small. He was a big man, Neville Bamber. However, there has been discussion that maybe the

33:34fight happens after he initially had already been injured and that's how she managed to overcome him.

33:39But based on his injuries and based on how he was found, it suggests that there was a struggle. And

33:45Sheila struggling against her father, who was large, that doesn't make sense.

33:51What is schizophrenia?

33:53Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that can be treated with medication. But when it's not treated,

34:01somebody can have a psychotic episode where they are completely detached from reality.

34:07They will have hallucinations, delusions. They can be paranoid that people are out to kill them.

34:14And in Sheila's case, there was a lot of religious aspects of that because of her upbringing and

34:21because of the obsessive religious context that she lived in. She would become quite violent to things.

34:31So she would smash things up. She would scream. She would shout. However, it was very much reported,

34:37particularly by her ex-husband, that she was never physically violent to him or to the children.

34:44One thing that was spotted was that she had completely clean feet and clean hands.

34:55They suggested that maybe that was because she'd washed after she had killed everybody.

35:00That does not seem like the actions of a woman who's gone on a crazy killing spree,

35:08including killing her own children.

35:14This, on the 8th of August, became the splash, the main story for the national newspapers at the time.

35:25Something like this had like a mini explosion in the local community.

35:30They were completely shocked and disbelieving.

35:33There was a great feeling of sadness there when I talked to locals because they liked the couple.

35:44Tabloid journalism was made for this story. A rich family, a model, drugs, schizophrenia,

35:51had all the ingredients for a great reader fest.

35:55And the way they described the story was that this was a murder-suicide, was that Sheila Caffell had killed her family.

36:06That was the way the story was presented, that a deranged woman, that adjective was actually used

36:12in some of the coverage, had killed the rest of her family.

36:15It was leading all the news bulletins.

36:19Not only that, but it's got this young woman at its heart who's been a model called Bambi.

36:25There are photographs of her as a model and so that really leads the coverage and creates

36:31much more of a thrilling narrative for the tabloid papers than it probably otherwise would have done.

36:37It's easy. And put it on the front page as well. Even better. Beautiful model kills family.

36:42The story sells itself. I have to be a bit more down to earth and a bit more accurate.

36:47Well, a lot more accurate. Over the next few days, as I went more and more,

36:53I wanted to go every day to try and get hold of Jeremy. And the police were again all over the house.

36:58And I got very close to that. They were burning carpets in the front of the house.

37:06And I thought, this is very quick. There hasn't been a formal investigation as such.

37:12This is days into it. And they're starting to burn evidence, or as far as I could see,

37:17potential evidence. And I didn't get that. I thought, why? And the police seemed to be in a hurry

37:25to get it done and dusted.

37:26Taff Jones set his mind and he wasn't going to be swayed. He didn't like to have his view questioned.

37:40There are other senior officers above him and eventually they will start to have concerns too.

37:46Mike Ainsley, who's the detective superintendent, who was in charge of half of Essex CID, took Taff off the case.

38:02The senior CID officer at Whitton was Stan Jones, who was a detective sergeant.

38:07Stan's immediate boss was his detective inspector, one rank below Taff. So Stan and he supervise the case.

38:18This Jones is not like the other Jones, Taff Jones. This Jones actually is suspicious of Jeremy Bamba.

38:24He's one of those who has doubts about Bamba's story, his account of what happened.

38:29He thinks the gun is a little bit of an awkward position. It's got a long barrel and it was at the

38:38limits of what she could have held to her throat, I suppose, this area, neck where she shot upwards.

38:48Stan just didn't like the way it was presented. He didn't like the way the scene of crime looked.

38:53He said, it looked too good, it looked too bad. But then suddenly, everything changed.

39:16Three days later, the family had been given the house back by Taff Jones because he's made his decision

39:23and they go into the house to start cleaning up. I mean, you can imagine the horrible mess,

39:28the bloodstained, the carpets, clothing, the upturned furniture, the scene of this, you know, appalling carnage.

39:36To me, it is bizarre that the scene was essentially closed down and the property given back to the family

39:44so quickly. These days, it would take a long time to process it, as we call it, properly,

39:51and usually the scene is kept on until you are absolutely sure that there is nothing left

39:59to discover from it.

40:01From a forensic science point of view, that's a complete disaster.

40:05Because if you want to go back and look for any bits of evidence that you might have missed the

40:10first time round, or to have another dust for fingerprints, or to look for blood spatter or other

40:16evidence, it's over. It's finished. Because the scene has been trampled on, not just by the police,

40:22but by other relatives who've been allowed back into the farmhouse.

40:25They start moving things around, and David Batplow sees some ammunition lying around,

40:33and he goes to put it back in the gun cupboard. He goes to the gun cupboard to put the ammunition in,

40:38and in the back of the cupboard, he spots a sound moderator, what you and I could call a silencer.

40:44And he takes it out, and it appears to have some sort of blood staining.

40:48That is going to be an incredibly important piece of evidence as the investigation progresses.

41:04If that rifle had the silencer on it at the time of the killings, then it was too long for Sheila Caffel

41:15to have held the trigger and shot herself. Her hands would not have reached the trigger

41:19with the silencer on the end of the barrel. So if the silencer was on the rifle when the killings

41:27occurred, Sheila Caffel wasn't responsible for the killings.

41:34The silencer is not found by the police. It is found by a member of the family.

41:46And that, of course, raises problems. You don't have a formal chain of custody.

41:52You don't have the precise evidence of where it's discovered, when it's discovered.

41:59And these are going to create difficulties.

42:02David Boutflour has found the silencer, shows it to the other members of his family who are there.

42:08Nowadays, the police will be called, they go down there, they take charge of it,

42:12they put it in an evidence bag, they take it to a lab, it will be examined very carefully.

42:17But that's not what happens. They understand that it's important and significant.

42:22Anne takes it and she takes it home. She calls an officer. He eventually, another day or two later,

42:29goes to Ann Eaton's home and collects the silencer, put in like a toilet roll cardboard tube or something,

42:35sealed it up, took it off. As he's handing over, he notices there's a grey hair on the end of the

42:42sound moderator. But mysteriously, that grey hair is never seen again. That could have been one of

42:46Neville Bambus's grey hairs. And that would really have potentially sealed the explanation for what happened.

42:55There was blood group analysis done on it, suggesting that blood on the silencer could be from Sheila.

43:04And given that it was her blood inside, then it must have been attached when she was shot.

43:11One of the things they find is a piece of red paint. In the kitchen, where this life or death

43:21struggle took place, where Neville Bamber was killed, is a shelf. And under the shelf, there's red paint.

43:30And it appears that the paint on the silencer matches the paint on the other side of this shelf.

43:38So it fits the theory that there was a struggle and the silencer was caught underneath the shelf

43:44and the paint came off it. The blood on the silencer and the specks of paint on the silencer that are

43:52matched to the kitchen suggest that it was fixed to the weapon, to the rifle that was used in the murders.

43:59Which means either that she took the silencer off before shooting herself and put it back in the

44:06cupboard where it belonged, or that she didn't shoot herself, but that someone else did.

44:14At that stage in the investigation, everything is pointing away from Sheila and there is only one

44:21direction at Ben point. The estate around White House Farm and the Bamber's other holdings was valued at

44:28£435,000. That would be something approaching £1.5 million today. So there was a lot of stake.

44:37If Sheila Caffell had carried out the killings, then that money would all have gone to Jeremy Bamber.

44:47Suddenly, Jeremy seemed to fit the picture. It would turn the story on his head.

44:51And I thought, also, this makes far more sense.

45:09Morning, it's Jeremy here. It's probably best to go through a few things and

45:13refresh everyone's mind about what happened.

45:16The other people who were questioning what had happened were the wider family of June and Neville

45:24Bamber. They started to look questioningly at Jeremy Bamber's behaviour. Behind the scenes,

45:30detectives were working on building a case against him. Was he greedy? Is this man capable

45:37of murdering an entire family only for the money?

45:40Jeremy Bamber has never stopped protesting his innocence. He has a body of supporters all around

45:49him, the Justice for Jeremy campaigners, and they are very staunch advocates.

45:54It is physically and logistically impossible for Jeremy Bamber to have committed this terrible crime.

46:01This case is huge. I mean, it's one of the most fascinating cases that I've reported on.

46:07It's one of those binary issues where people are either convinced of his innocence or convinced

46:13of his guilt. He's the only person alive who knows what happened that night at White House Farm.

46:37So happy to have a lot of responsibility.

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