Jeremy Nevill Bamber (born 13 January 1961) was convicted in October 1986, when he was 25 years old, of the murder of his adoptive parents, along with his adoptive sister and her six-year-old twin sons. The shooting of the family in August 1985, in the parents' farmhouse in Essex, England, 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.[4] As of November 2016 he was one of 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.
