Jeremy Bamber

Jeremy Bamber
Jeremy Bamber in 1986
Born	(1961-01-13) 13 January 1961 (age 56)
Education	Gresham's School, Norfolk, England
Known for	White House Farm murders
Criminal penalty	Whole life order (convicted 28 October 1986)

Jeremy Nevill Bamber (born 13 January 1961) was convicted in 1986, when he was 25 years old, of the murder of his adoptive parents, his adoptive sister and her six-year-old twin sons, in his adoptive parents' home in Essex, England. The shooting of the family, in August 1985, came to be known as the White House Farm murders.

The prosecution argued that, after committing the murders to secure a large inheritance, Bamber had placed the gun in the hands of his 28-year-old sister, who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, to make the scene appear to be a murder–suicide. Convicted by a 10–2 majority, Bamber is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. As of November 2016 he was one of just 70 prisoners in the UK subject to a whole-life order.

Arguing that he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice, Bamber has repeatedly applied to have his conviction overturned or his sentence reduced. He does not have the support of his extended family, who were involved in gathering the evidence that saw him convicted and who remain convinced of his guilt. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) referred the case to the Court of Appeal in 2001, which upheld the conviction in 2002. The CCRC rejected further applications from Bamber in 2004 and 2012. In July 2013 the European Court of Human Rights ruled in Bamber's favour that there must be a possibility, for whole-life prisoners, of review and release.

Bamber was born to a vicar's daughter who had had an affair with an army sergeant, a controller at Buckingham Palace. She gave the baby up for adoption in 1961, the year of his birth, through the Church of England Children's Society. Nevill and June Bamber adopted him when he was six months old. It was only after Bamber's conviction that his biological parents were told by reporters that Bamber was their son. They were by then married to each other and working at Buckingham Palace.