A documentary mini-series claims the man convicted of the White House Farm murders may be innocent.  

Jeremy Bamber is serving a life tariff in a maximum security prison for the brutal killings of five of his family members at a home near Tolleshunt D’Arcy in Essex, in August 1985. 

He has no possibility of parole.  

The 61-year-old was convicted of murdering his adoptive parents, Nevill and June, both 61, his sister, Sheila Caffell, 26, and her six-year-old twins, Daniel and Nicholas. 

But he has always protested his innocence and claims that Ms Caffell, who suffered from schizophrenia, shot her family before turning the gun on herself. 

A True Crime Newsquest documentary - produced by the publishers of this news outlet – has now re-examined the case in a three-part series.   

Mark Williams-Thomas, a retired detective best known for exposing Jimmy Savile as a paedophile in ITV’s The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, believes the case could be one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in the UK. 

And the True Crime Newsquest mini-series White House Farm sees Mr Williams-Thomas takes another look at the evidence in the case to see whether Bamber is right to protest his innocence. 

The first episode of the three-part mini-series is available now on YouTube.

Parts two and three, which feature the results of a polygraph test and new evidence, are also online. 

This article is part of True Crime Newsquest. A new series featuring insight from local journalists who covered the stories first-hand. Subscribe to the True Crime Newsquest YouTube channel to stay up to date with the new documentaries presented by Jody Doherty-Cove and Mark Williams-Thomas.