Jeremy Bamber

THE lawyer representing mass murderer Jeremy Bamber claims he has found evidence that a video recording was made by police at the scene of the killings shortly after they were committed.

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THE lawyer representing mass murderer Jeremy Bamber claims he has found evidence that a video recording was made by police at the scene of the killings shortly after they were committed.

And Giovanni di Stefano believes the fact this was not been disclosed to the defence teams representing Bamber meant his client could not have had a fair trial after the White House Farm killings in 1985.

The lawyer found the records of a videotape on an inventory of items catalogued by the Metropolitan Police when they were investigating how the Bamber inquiry had been handled by the Essex force.

Initially Essex Police believed that Bamber's sister, Sheila Caffell, had shot their parents, Neville and June, and her twin six-year-old sons before turning the gun on herself.

But they later switched their line of inquiry to Bamber who was convicted of the murders in October 1986.

The new document was given to Mr di Stefano as one of thousands on a CD Rom in 2002, but he had been unable to open it until recently because of software problems, he said.

The inventory carries details of objects such as Neville Bamber's firearms certificate, a back door key to the house and a videotape of ITV news coverage of the killings.

But under this is catalogued: “Videotape (murder scene)” apparently stored in the incident cupboard with the observation that it had been copied.

Yesterday Mr di Stefano claimed: “You would expect the police to have filmed everything, so we could see where everything and everyone was, but they have always said there wasn't one.”

Mr di Stefano said that in the light of new evidence the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which is currently considering Bamber's case, had extended the deadline for submissions to September 10.

A spokesman for Essex Police said yesterday: “We will co-operate with any request made of us by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.”

A spokeswoman for the Criminal Cases Review Commission said last night that Bamber's case was being reviewed but was unable to comment further.