Scottish Daily Mail

Freddie fits the part as mass killer Bamber

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MAss killer Jeremy Bamber, convicted of murdering five members of his family 32 years ago, will be portrayed by Freddie Fox in a six-part television drama about the massacre.

Fox, 29, brilliant as an aristocrat in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre, which has just a couple of weeks left to run, has signed on to portray the narcissist­ic psychopath.

Bamber was sentenced to five life sentences for shooting his adoptive parents June and Nevill Bamber, adoptive sister sheila Caffell (a model known profession­ally as Bambi), and her six-year-old twins Nicholas and Daniel (slain as they slept) at White House Farm on the family’s estate in Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, in 1985.

The ITV series, using a screenplay by Kris Mrksa, who wrote the spooky BBC1 Requiem series, is based, in part, on a published investigat­ion of the murders by author Carol Ann Lee.

Filming starts later next month, and it’s clear to see why the story of what happened at White House Farm is likely to make compelling viewing.

Originally, police suspicion had fallen on Ms Caffell, a schizophre­nic who had taken herself off her medication. One early theory was that it could be a case of murder-suicide.

However, some of the more astute officers on the murder squad felt a number of things didn’t add up — and a few were suspicious of Bamber the moment they set eyes on him.

There were inconsiste­ncies that troubled the police. And then came a bombshell: Bamber’s former girlfriend Julie Mugford told police that he had spoken about killing his family and claiming a lucrative inheritanc­e.

BAMBER was convicted of all five murders at Chelmsford Crown Court in 1986, where trial judge Mr Justice Drake described him as ‘warped and evil beyond belief ’.

He was one of several multiple killers told that their life sentences did mean life. Despite this, he has lodged — and lost — three appeals against his verdict and sentence; and is working on a fourth legal challenge.

There are a number of activists on social media who still believe in Bamber’s innocence, and he courts them to help plead that he is, in fact, the victim of a massive miscarriag­e of justice.

Each of the six episodes of The Murder At White House Farm will look at the case from the viewpoint of a different character — including Bamber himself, his parents, his sister, and her former husband.

The drama’s creative and production team are debating what they will (and won’t) show of the brutal killings.

At the moment, episode one ends with the discovery of five slain bodies in the bloodbath at the farm.

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Monster: Jeremy Bamber
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Killer role: Freddie Fox
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