As you tuck into your Christmas pudding please spare a thought - and some cash for Jeremy Bamber’s legal fight.
Let’s make this the last Christmas Jeremy spends incarcerated as an innocent man.
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Jeremy Bamber just marked his 40th Christmas in a Category A prison cell. He was 24 when he went in. He’s 64 now.
On August 7th, 1985, five members of the Bamber family were shot dead at White House Farm in Essex: Nevill and June Bamber, their daughter Sheila Caffell, and Sheila’s six-year-old twin sons, Nicholas and Daniel.
Jeremy was convicted of their murders in October 1986. While true-crime documentaries and dramas have turned his name into shorthand for guilt, something extraordinary happened in 2024.
Something that changes everything.
The Call That Shouldn’t Exist
6:09 AM, August 7th, 1985.
A 999 call is made from inside the locked farmhouse at White House Farm.
At that exact moment, Jeremy Bamber is standing outside the property, surrounded by 25 police officers who can verify his location.
Police Constable Nicholas Milbank took that call. In 2024, he told investigative journalist Heidi Blake for The New Yorker:
“From what I can remember, someone phoned 999 from inside the farmhouse.”
Milbank described hearing what may have been muffled speech - “a voice or a radio” - and sounds consistent with “a door opening and closing, or a chair being moved.”
If someone was alive and moving inside that locked farmhouse while Jeremy Bamber stood outside with police witnesses, he could not have committed these murders.
This evidence was never presented at his trial.
The Fabrication - Part One
In 2002, the Metropolitan Police conducted a review of the Bamber case.
During this review, a statement appeared in Nicholas Milbank’s name. This statement claimed he heard nothing unusual on the telephone line - that it was just an open line he was monitoring, ruling out any 999 call.
The statement was unsigned.
When Heidi Blake contacted Milbank in 2024, he said something chilling:
“No one’s spoken to me about it since the nineteen-eighties. Other than you.”
Milbank confirmed he never gave that statement to the Metropolitan Police. He described multiple flaws in it that proved, he said, it was not written by him.
Nicholas Milbank has since died.
The Fabrication - Part Two
Here’s where it gets worse.
Upon release of The New Yorker article in 2024, the Jeremy Bamber campaign immediately contacted the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) - the body responsible for investigating potential miscarriages of justice - to outline this new evidence.
In response, Essex Police provided a statement to the CCRC, purportedly from Nicholas Milbank, claiming he did not know Heidi Blake and had never given any interviews.
There’s just one problem: the interviews were recorded.
They are publicly available on The New Yorker’s “In the Dark” podcast series. The audio clearly proves that the contents of this “new” Milbank statement are blatantly untrue.
Not corruption from the 1980s. Corruption in 2024.
The Refusal
The Criminal Cases Review Commission has refused to investigate this evidence. They will not refer Jeremy Bamber’s case to the Court of Appeal.
Too controversial? Too politically explosive? Or simply too afraid to admit the system failed again?
Think about what we’re being asked to accept:
A police officer provides recorded evidence of an alibi
An unsigned statement from 2002 dismisses that alibi in his name - a statement he says he never gave
After he speaks publicly in 2024, another false statement appears in his name
The officer dies
The recordings prove the statements are lies
The body responsible for correcting miscarriages of justice refuses to investigate
The Legal Challenge
Jeremy Bamber has secured representation from Mark Newby of Jordans Solicitors - the instructing solicitor who successfully overturned Victor Nealon’s 17-year wrongful conviction - and David Emmanuel KC with supporting junior counsel.
They are mounting a legal challenge to force the CCRC to investigate this evidence and refer the case to the Court of Appeal.
Total legal costs: £47,500
Currently raised: £10,000
Still needed: £10,000 to meet the immediate funding target of £20,000
This could be Jeremy’s final shot at freedom. And at exposing a police force that, according to emerging evidence, never stopped lying.
Why This Matters to All of Us
The Hillsborough Law exists because we finally admitted the unthinkable was real. Police corruption on a massive scale. Systematic falsification of evidence. Decades of lies.
But that law doesn’t help the people already behind bars - victims of the same corruption from the same era.
How many more are there?
The Birmingham Six spent 16 years in prison for IRA bombings they didn’t commit - freed only after it emerged that police had fabricated evidence.
The Guildford Four: 15 years for pub bombings, convictions based on coerced confessions.
Stefan Kiszko: 16 years for a child’s murder he couldn’t have committed - police withheld evidence that proved his innocence.
The Post Office scandal: hundreds of postmasters prosecuted based on faulty software, with some still fighting for justice decades later.
Every single one of these cases began with authorities saying: “Impossible. The system works.”
The Pattern We Can’t Ignore
When the same police force produces:
An unsigned statement in 2002 dismissing alibi evidence
A false statement in 2024 denying recorded interviews ever happened
A refusal to investigate when confronted with recordings
...we’re not talking about isolated mistakes. We’re talking about a pattern.
The same pattern we now legally acknowledge existed at Hillsborough.
The same pattern we’ve seen in every overturned wrongful conviction.
When we know corruption happened, looking away makes us complicit.
We Are All One False Accusation Away
This isn’t just about Jeremy Bamber. It’s about whether we mean it when we say justice matters.
It’s about whether the Hillsborough Law was a genuine reckoning or just political theatre.
It’s about every case where police fabricated evidence, every statement that was never signed, every inconvenient alibi that disappeared.
The justice system only changes when we force it to.
We are all one false accusation away from being Jeremy Bamber.
How You Can Help
Donate to the legal fund at crowdjustice.com/case/get-jeremy-bambers-alibi-into
Every contribution brings this case closer to the Court of Appeal, where the alibi evidence can finally be heard by judges.
Share this story. The recordings exist. The evidence exists. The contradiction exists.
History is watching. Which side will you be on?
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