Jeremy Bamber: How White House Farm killer ‘cracked jokes’ at victims’ funeral

In 1985, Bamber shot and killed his adopted parents Nevill and June Bamber, adopted sister Sheila Caffell and her six-year-old sons Nicholas and Daniel Caffell. He then placed the gun in Sheila’s hands and claimed his father had called him earlier in the night to tell him Sheila, who suffered from schizophrenia, had gone “berserk with a gun”. At first, he tricked everyone – including the police – into thinking he was a grieving son and brother, a victim of the tragedy.

The police eventually realised that Bamber was the real killer, after his girlfriend Julie Mugford went to the authorities with information.

However, it was before this, at the funeral of Bamber’s parents and sister, that alarm bells started ringing for other members of the family.

News footage at the time showed Bamber looking devastated as he apparently grieved for his murdered family at their memorial.

However, Colin Caffell, ex-husband of Sheila and father of the little boys, claimed as soon as the cameras stopped rolling, Bamber changed.

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In his 1994 book ‘In Search of the Rainbow’s End’, he revealed how his brother-in-law “started cracking jokes and laughing”.

He later told The Telegraph that Bamber also started making smutty comments about how “he couldn’t wait to get back to the house with Julie and have some fun”.

Last month, Mr Caffell appeared on ITV’s This Morning and told Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield that at first he had been in denial about his family’s deaths.

He explained he didn’t want to hear anything about the case, because it was too much for him to handle, and so he fell right into Bamber’s lies.

At the funeral when those lies started to fall apart, because he did not seem to be grieving like the rest of them,

Mr Caffell told the hosts: “Once June and Nevill and Sheila’s funeral happened, we were in the car going to the crematorium and he started larking around with Julie in the front of the car, telling her what he’d like to be doing to her later in the afternoon.

“Really sick. And I thought ‘there’s something weird going on here’.”

It was the first chink in the armour that would result in the whole facade coming down.

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Eventually, Julie went to the police and told them Bamber killed his family, citing times he had said he wanted to get rid of them and how he did not want to share the inheritance with Sheila.

She claimed he talked disparagingly about his “old” father and “mad” mother who were trying to “run his life”.

She added he had declared his sister had nothing to live for and the twins were disturbed.

Julie told police he had even talked about sedating and shooting his parents, before setting fire to the house, adding Sheila would make a good scapegoat.

It was her testimony that likely swayed the jury to convict Bamber in 1986.

He was convicted of all five murders and sentenced to a whole life order, meaning he will never be released from prison.

While he still claims he is innocent, he has now served over 32 years in high security prisons, currently being held in HMP Wakefield in Yorkshire.

The gruesome events of this tragic tale are now being portrayed in a six-party true crime drama on ITV.

Aired on Wednesday nights at 9pm, the programme stars Freddie Fox, Cressida Bonas and Stephen Graham.

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