Bamber review backed by supporters of man wrongly jailed for rape
SUPPORTERS of a man who was wrongly jailed for rape have joined calls for a review into the conviction of White House Farm murderer Jeremy Bamber.
Andrew Malkinson was cleared of rape last year after being jailed for life in 2003. There was never any DNA evidence connecting Mr Malkinson to the crime. He was acquitted after forensic tests linked it to an offender on the police database. The case led to criticism of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), which failed to fund the tests. They were paid for by the charity Appeal.
On Friday, a demonstration was held outside CCRC’s offices in Birmingham, which has been investigating Bamber’s conviction for the murders of Nevill and June Bamber, both 61, Sheila Caffell, 28, and her six-year-old twins Daniel and Nicholas at White House Farm, Essex, in 1985.
Bamber, 63, has always denied the shootings, blaming Sheila, a paranoid schizophrenic.
He says police officers concealed evidence and tampered with the crime scene.
At the protest, members of campaign groups warned about
potential conflicts of interest from former police officers working on CCRC cases.
Emma Morris, of the Jeremy Bamber Campaign team, said: ‘There are many people fighting their cases with the CCRC that may have thought the problems they were having with the CCRC were unique to them.
‘As Andrew Malkinson said upon proving his innocence, “I’m not the only one.”’
A CCRC spokesman said: ‘We make impartial, evidence-based decisions. We do not make decisions on the basis of external pressure from anyone.’