Jeremy Bamber

Who is Jeremy Bamber?

Jeremy Neville Bamber is serving life imprisonment without the possibility of parole in the UK after being convicted by a 10–2 majority in October 1986 of the White House Farm murders, which took place in Essex, England in August 1985. He was told by the Home Secretary in 1994 that he would never be released. He is the only whole-life prisoner in the UK who is known to protest his innocence.

Bamber was 25 years old when he was convicted of having shot and killed his adoptive father, mother, sister and her six-year-old twin sons in his parents' home at White House Farm. The prosecution argued successfully that, after carrying out the murders to secure a large inheritance, Bamber had placed the gun in his 28-year-old sister's hands to make it look like a murder–suicide. She had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and for several weeks after the murders the police and media believed she was the killer.

Arguing that he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice, Bamber has several times applied to have the conviction overturned or his sentence reduced. The Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in 1989.