Bambi killer thinks he’sa jail lothario

nothing.” When Carol’s book was published she would not to be drawn on if she thought Bamber was guilty. Today she has no problem in taking a side.

She clearly remembers seeing the Bambers’ funeral and years later realised the crime had not been covered in any great detail.

She said: “I thought as long as I have something new to say I could write a book. He’s guilty.

“When I started writing to him I thought he was guilty but I thought I can’t go into it like that. I wanted an open mind.

“But when I felt like I’d got on top of it and I was asking him reasonably intelligent questions, he backed off and was literally ignoring them.

“He just wanted to keep saying the same thing – that he was innocent. He wrote what he wanted to write.

“He’s told himself a version of events so many times he believes it.

“The people that support him are so blinkered.”

It has been revealed Bamber has been awarded more than £500,000 in legal aid fighting to clear his name.

In the drama Bamber is played by Freddie Fox, 30, who was asked by campaigners for the killer to meet them before playing the role but turned down the invitation.

Prince Harry’s ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas, 30, plays Sheila Caffell and A-lister Stephen Graham, 46, is DCI Thomas “Taff” Jones. Game of Thrones’s

Alfie Allen, 33, and Mark Addy, 55, also star. For the first time since Bamber’s conviction, Sheila’s ex-husband Colin Caffell has collaborated with an adaptation of the story.

He said: “I had a choice – to be completely consumed by it or to get above it. If I’d just given in and then been the victim of all that, it would have been a sense of defeat to Jeremy.”

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