White House Farm Murders - Campaign To Overturn The Conviction

Campaign To Overturn The Conviction

A campaign gathered pace over the years to secure Bamber's release, and from March 2001 several websites were set up to discuss the evidence. Bamber used one of them in 2002 to offer a £1m reward for evidence that would overturn his conviction. His case was taken up by former MPs George Galloway and Andrew Hunter, and Bob Woffinden, a journalist who specializes in miscarriages of justice. Woffinden argued between 2007 and 2011 that it was Sheila who shot her family, then watched from an upstairs window as police gathered outside the house, before shooting herself. He changed his mind in May 2011, writing that he had come to believe Bamber was the killer.

Andrew Hunter alleged in the House of Commons in 2005 that evidence was being withheld from the defence, including access to the notebooks of Inspector Taff Jones, the first officer in charge of the investigation, who believed Bamber was innocent, but who died before the case came to court. In August 2005, Bamber's lawyers wrote that there were four million documents in the case, one quarter of which had not been disclosed to the defence. Thirty-eight boxes of papers were provided to the new defence team, including photographs that had not been part of the defence papers during the trial or appeal, according to Bamber's lawyers.