Photographs from the White House Farm murders could provide evidence to suggest the crime scene was poorly preserved, a documentary mini-series claims.  

Jeremy Bamber is serving a life tariff in a maximum security prison for the brutal killings of five of his family members at a home near Tolleshunt D’Arcy in Essex, in August 1985. 

He has no possibility of parole.   

The 61-year-old was convicted of murdering his adoptive parents, Nevill and June, both 61, his sister, Sheila Caffell, 26, and her six-year-old twins, Daniel and Nicholas.  

But he has always protested his innocence and claims that Ms Caffell, who suffered from schizophrenia, shot her family before turning the gun on herself.  

A True Crime Newsquest documentary - produced by the publishers of this news outlet – has re-examined the case in a three-part series now available on YouTube.    

In the second episode, Mark Williams-Thomas, a retired detective best known for exposing Jimmy Savile as a paedophile in ITV’s The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, shares exclusive new evidence from the murders. 

And he believes the case could be one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the UK.    

At the start of the episode, Mark says: “I reveal exclusive pictures of how police officers seriously failed to preserve the crime scene and establish details of the bible found next to Sheila Caffell... 

“... Did on the night of the murders, Nevill Bamber call the police himself before calling his son at home, thereby exonerating Jeremy Bamber? 

“I consider the vital question: was Sheila capable of killing her own children and parents?”  

Episode 2 of the three-part mini-seies is available here.

Catch up with Episode 1.  

Part three features an interview with the man who performed a polygraph test on Jeremy Bamber.  

This article is part of True Crime Newsquest. A new series featuring insight from local journalists who covered the stories first-hand. Subscribe to the True Crime Newsquest YouTube channel to stay up to date with the new documentaries presented by Jody Doherty-Cove and Mark Williams-Thomas.