She started having delusions of being Joan of Arc, the Virgin Mary and a white witch. ibid.
Sent off to boarding school, he was rejected and took his resentment out on younger boys, and was regarded as a bully. Perhaps resentment festered as he thought his parents loved Sheila, now engaged to Colin Caffell, more than him. He worked on the farm but at night he got up to whatever fun he could find locally when his chores were over. He was heard to complain about his parents and the wages he was paid. ibid.
He had a stream of local girls at his cottage. ibid.
The gun which Sheila had supposedly used was produced, along with a silencer with a hair, supposedly hers, on it. ibid.
Sheila had a delusion she was possessed by the devil. ibid.
He insisted he had a loving relationship with his parents. ibid.
New forensic reports are casting doubt on his conviction. Tonight with Trevor McDonald: Bamber – The New Evidence, ITV 2012
Bamber has always protested his innocence. In 2002 his case went to the Court of Appeal but the conviction was upheld. ibid.
He says he sees something moving in the upstairs’ windows. ibid.
7.45 a.m. Armed police storm the house and discover five bodies. Sheila had two shotgun wounds to her throat. An open Bible was by her side. The rifle lay across her chest. The scene suggested Sheila had shot her family and turned the gun on herself. ibid.
Bamber was arrested, charged and convicted on five counts of murder. He has already spent twenty-six years in jail. ibid.
The discovery of a silencer was an important part of the prosecution case. ibid.
Later there were concerns over the thoroughness of the evidence gathered. ibid.
Bamber’s legal team now says it has strong evidence the silencer was not on, and therefore Sheila could have killed herself. ibid.
The results suggested that no silencer was on the rifle when Sheila was shot. ibid.
Bamber’s legal team also question the evidence of ex-girlfriend and key witness Julie Mugford. ibid.
Bamber’s new legal team believe that if the [Julie’s] deal was signed by the end of the trial it could have had an impact on the verdict. ibid.
The worst miscarriage of justice the British criminal justice system has ever experienced. Simon McKay, Jeremy Bamber’s lawyer
Jeremy Bamber shot dead his sister, mother, father and six-year-old twin nephews in cold blood. He manipulated the murder scene. Slaughter at the Farm: Countdown to Murder, Channel 5 2013
Sheila’s mental health started to fail ... She was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. ibid.
Jeremy Bamber: charged with killing five members of his family … It was in the early hours of August 7th 1985 that a report came in that would shatter for ever the peaceful image of White House Farm. Faking It: Jeremy Bamber, Discovery Plus 2020
Bamber said straight from the outset, My sister’s a nutter. And because they believed she was ‘a nutter’, it was easy for them to believe she could have been the killer. ibid.
‘I’m very confident he’s not sad [funeral]. This is a fake pose.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley, body language expert
Look, my father’s just rung and told me to come over, um. He sounded terrified. Yes, he said my – it was my sister, that she’d gone crazy with a gun. White House Farm I, Bamber on dog-n-bone to rozzers, ITV 2020
Daughter killed them all then shot herself. ibid. Taff the rozzer
My sister Sheila – she ought to be in a bloody nuthouse for what she done here. ibid. Jeremy
So she’s been shot twice? And we’re saying she did this to herself. ibid. Stanley the rozzer
My whole family gone because I left the gun out [weeps]. White House Farm II, Jeremy
She [Sheila] was adopted. Her and her brother are both from different birth parents. ibid. rozzer
We’re saying he [father] was bludgeoned into submission by Sheila who is built like Twiggy’s thinner sister? ibid. Stanley
It’s not right the way he’s been behaving. He almost seems glad. ibid. Ann
My mum loved me less than a bloody dog. White House Farm III, Jeremy to Ann
We can’t prove a thing against the bastard. Even if Taff came on board, we’re still a million miles away from putting together a case against him. White House Farm IV, Stanley
I’m going to tell you what really happened that night. At White House Farm. ibid. Julie to Stanley
I should just burn White House down with mum and dad in it. White House Farm V, Jeremy to Julie, flashback scene
When he said the words, ‘It’s tonight or never,’ you weren’t in any doubt what he meant? ibid. Julie to Stanley
Jeremy Bamber, after being questioned about the murder of his family, has attempted to cash in on the tragedy by selling pornographic pictures of his sister. ibid. Colin reads newspaper
Finally we can say someone forced entry to that farm house. White House Farm VI, Stanley
Your dad shot eight times all on target. You want me to believe that that was done by a girl who had scarcely picked up a rifle in her life? He was beaten too your dad. Mercilessly. ibid. Stanley to Jeremy
We are in the middle of absolutely nowhere … This is the village that Jeremy Bamber lived … approximately three miles away from White House farm. The Bambers: Murder at the Farm, Sky Crime 2021
Top Model Slaughters Family. ibid. The Sun 8 August 1985 front page
On the end of the silencer was a little spot of blood and a hair. I was thinking, why was the silencer off the gun. ibid. cousin
After the funerals, Jeremy’s behaviour surprised a lot of people. He really didn’t strike them as a young man who had lost his entire family. ibid.
She [girlfriend Julie] was telling me how Jeremy had planned some months to kill his family. ibid. rozzer