Family killer Jeremy Bamber received £500,000 in taxpayer’s cash for failed legal campaign to prove his innocence
FAMILY killer Jeremy Bamber has had half a million pounds in legal aid in a failed campaign to prove his innocence.
Bamber, 58, got £507,723 in taxpayers’ cash to pay lawyers for attempts to try to prove he did not kill his mum and dad, sister and her six-year-old twins in 1985.
The bulk was £379,283 spent on two appeals against conviction. Another £33,624 went on an appeal against a whole life term imposed in 1988.
The rest was spent on judicial review planning and legal opinion.
A source said: “It’s a disgrace. He’s laughing in the face of justice by repeatedly being allowed these challenges.”
Adopted Bamber, then 24, was convicted of shooting dead his parents Nevill and June, sister Sheila Caffell and her twin sons Daniel and Nicholas.
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Police initially believed Bamber’s claim that schizophrenic Sheila killed the others then committed suicide in the family home near Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex.
But prosecutors said the gun was too long for Sheila to have turned it on herself.
The murder will be dramatised in ITV crime drama White House Farm in the New Year.
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