New Louis Theroux documentary on Jeremy Bamber's guilt

A new documentary series looking into Jeremy Bamber’s guilt is being screened from Sunday.

Bamber, now 60, was jailed for life after being convicted of murdering five members of his family at White House Farm in Tolleshunt D’Arcy, in 1985.

His adoptive parents Nevill and June, both 61, his sister Sheila Caffell, 26, and her six-year-old twins Daniel and Nicholas all died in the massacre and Bamber was convicted by a split jury.

However, he has always protested his innocence saying Sheila killed the family before turning the gun on herself.

Jeremy Bamber

He has had two appeals heard but both have been rejected and he is now pushing for a third appeal at the High Court.

Mr Theroux has examined the case for a new four-part documentary.

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Theroux, who executive produced the documentary, said: “What really amazed me was how bizarre almost every version of the story is, and yet one of them, quite evidently, must be true.

“Sheila did have a history of serious mental illness and had expressed confused ideations about possibly doing physical harm to people.

“And at the same time, to believe that she did it, you’d have to believe that in her psychosis she did an almost executioner-style job. Every one of the bullets, there were 20-something shots, hit its target.”

Theroux and his team gained access to unheard tapes for the new series which features first-hand testimony and evidential footage.

This includes recordings of Bamber speaking to a journalist while in prison.

“There are various strange, anomalous factors that mean there are these two camps: the people who believe passionately that Bamber did it, and the people who believe passionately that he didn’t do it,” added Mr Theroux.

The Bambers: Murder At The Farm is one of the first projects to emerge from the newly formed Mindhouse Production house.

Director Lucy Gammon said: “This is a really complicated four-episode story.

“Often with a series, each series has a different story and that’s kind of how all series used to be.

“Now, we’re in this world of doing single narrative, which as Louis was saying, is kind of novelistic and it takes a lot of brains to get that right.”

The Bambers: Murder At The Farm premieres on Sky Crime and NOW on Sunday at 9pm.