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Essex: Mass murderer will die in jail
11:32am Saturday 17th May 2008
Mass murderer Jeremy Bamber will die in prison.
The 47-year-old is serving life for shooting his adoptive parents, Nevill and June, sister Sheila Caffell and her six-year-old sons Daniel and Nicholas.
He slaughtered all five of them in August 1985 at the family farmhouse in Tolleshunt D'Arcy.
Bamber had asked for a minimum jail term to be set so he could one day be freed.
Yesterday Mr Justice Tugendhat said that the murders were exceptionally serious and ruled he should never be freed.
Bamber has always protested his innocence, claiming his sister, who was a model known as Bambi, could have killed the others before turning the gun on herself.
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Trunkymunghound, Essex says...
3:29pm Sun 18 May 08
Just because we might not like someone or the fact that someone has to pay for such a horrid crime there was not enough to convince that he was guilty without reasonable doubt.
And that is the law
He should get a re-trial at the bare minimum
Gary, colchester says...
6:06pm Sun 18 May 08
farmer, says...
7:07pm Sun 18 May 08
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Just A Thought, Marks Tey says...
3:42pm Sat 17 May 08
However, this decision does send out mixed messages in that some murderers are free within Ten years, whilst the high profile cases have to spend the rest of their life in prison....that is wrong!
All murderers should stay locked up forever!
It is also wrong that those who persist with their claim for innocence are given longer terms just because the parole system considers they have not accepted responsibility for the crime they were found guilty of.