Defence Case

Sheila Caffell, Jeremy’s sister had been discharged from a mental hospital and was staying at the farm house with her parents and twin sons. Sheila’s medication had been reduced and she had been smoking cannabis. She became upset that her parents had suggested earlier in the evening that she should consider having the children fostered while she got back on her feet. Sheila had split from her husband Colin and things had not been good for her being a single parent with a mental illness.

June’s sister had called the farm that evening along with Nevill Bamber’s secretary and both said that things sounded strained on the phone as if there could have been an argument going on. June had told Pamela that Sheila had been unresponsive that day also.

As in many cases of shootings, Sheila Caffell in a psychotic episode, took the .22 Anshultz rifle and killed the family and then turned the gun on herself. Nevill Bamber did call the Police and his son Jeremy. Nevill’s call to the Police was lost along the way, but Police message logs show its existence.

However, Sheila was still alive in the house when the Police arrived, as we know she was firstly seen in the upstairs window by two Police officers and Jeremy Bamber. Her body was then seen by an officer downstairs in the kitchen through the window, and it was also reported that her body was in the kitchen when the tactical firearms group broke into the house. This story later changed and her body had apparently been found upstairs in the bedroom. We also know that Police offers were in conversation with someone inside the house.

Police officers even called for two ambulances. If everyone was dead why did they do such a thing? And if there was no response from anyone inside the house because Jeremy Bamber had shot them all by 3am then why did Police not break down the door until 7:30am? Why did it take the Police three and a half hours to establish that everyone was dead and then storm the house? Crime scene photographs prove that Sheila’s body had been moved.

We put it that Sheila had shot herself once and was unconscious in the kitchen when the firearms officers broke into the kitchen. They somehow missed the fact that she was still alive and continued to search the house.

There were three staircases inside White House Farm and Sheila fled upstairs where she took her own life. She read her Bible before doing and she rested it by her side to fire a second shot under her chin which killed her outright. The Police photographs of Sheila with wet blood running from her wounds taken after 9am prove that she could not have died as early as 3am.

There is a lot more to this case than meets the eye, it is highly complex and this is causing a considerable amount of work for Jeremy and his legal team. I would also like to add that Jeremy nor his Defence believe that the Police shot Sheila Caffell as has been rumoured on other internet sites.