The New Yorker article

[Roch]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/05/did-the-uks-most-infamous-family-massacre-end-in-a-wrongful-conviction?fbclid=IwY2xjawEUTn9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQoheo4egVmo62dNY_ceSf7qclbCLdd9sBf3i6F7M-KWbDEjj0H403R3PQ_aem_KOjR6CLEq_4tA8befFH3VQ

[David1819]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/05/did-the-uks-most-infamous-family-massacre-end-in-a-wrongful-conviction?fbclid=IwY2xjawEUTn9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQoheo4egVmo62dNY_ceSf7qclbCLdd9sBf3i6F7M-KWbDEjj0H403R3PQ_aem_KOjR6CLEq_4tA8befFH3VQ

Thanks Roch. I will read it when I get time.

[Roch]

I've only scanned through it at speed. Didn't see anything that jumped out as new or revelatory.

[Jane]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/05/did-the-uks-most-infamous-family-massacre-end-in-a-wrongful-conviction?fbclid=IwY2xjawEUTn9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQoheo4egVmo62dNY_ceSf7qclbCLdd9sBf3i6F7M-KWbDEjj0H403R3PQ_aem_KOjR6CLEq_4tA8befFH3VQ

From what I've read thus far, there appears to be rather a lot of what has already been ruled out as fictitious, making some of it read like a work of fiction.

[Adam]

Didn't see any of this -

'The magazine tracked down officers who were present in the aftermath of the murders and who are believed to have substantiated Bamber's claim that police tampered with the crime scene to effectively frame him.'

[Steve_uk]

I've only scanned through it at speed. Didn't see anything that jumped out as new or revelatory.

The article begs the question why such assertions such as the one from Nicholas Milbank have not been pursued by those professionally charged to overturn the conviction, not amateurs reading such allegations in what spare time might be available to them.

[Steve_uk]

From what I've read thus far, there appears to be rather a lot of what has already been ruled out as fictitious, making some of it read like a work of fiction.

Did June ever hold Jeremy in her arms? Julie's role is skimmed over. Little Rentners Farm, not Renters.

[Roch]

The article begs the question why such assertions such as the one from Nicholas Milbank have not been pursued by those professionally charged to overturn the conviction, not amateurs reading such allegations in what spare time might be available to them.

What does it say about Millbank? I can't access the article and haven't read it properly.

[Curiosity]

What does it say about Millbank? I can't access the article and haven't read it properly.

Detectives assigned to investigate the call produced a short statement in the name of an Essex Police officer named Nicholas Milbank. The statement made no mention of anyone calling 999. Instead, it said that Milbank had been asked to monitor the open line into the Whitehouse, and had heard nothing until officers entered. Unusually, the statement had not been signed; Milbank’s name had been typed on the signature line.

I found Milbank, still working for the Essex Police, and he said that a call had come in at 6:09. “From what I can remember, someone phoned 999,” from “inside the farmhouse,” he told me. The caller had not spoken to him, but he recalled hearing what might have been muffled speech—perhaps a “voice or a radio”—and noises that could have been “a door opening and closing, or a chair being moved.” I asked if this suggested that someone had been alive in the house. “Well, obviously,” Milbank replied. When I mentioned the statement issued in his name, he was taken aback. He had given no such statement, he told me, and no one inquiring into the crime had ever contacted him. “No one’s spoken to me about it since the nineteen-eighties,” he said. “Other than you.”

[Curiosity]

Did June ever hold Jeremy in her arms? Julie's role is skimmed over. Little Rentners Farm, not Renters.

Renters?  https://3diamondevents.co.uk/meet-the-team

[Steve_uk]

What does it say about Millbank? I can't access the article and haven't read it properly.

Well, it's all rather confused, but I think he's claiming that he was the recipient of a 999 call from White House Farm just after 6:00am that fateful morning, though of course nobody spoke at the other end. I will try to quote the passage if the site allows.

[Steve_uk]

Renters?  https://3diamondevents.co.uk/meet-the-team

Oh, I must be showing early signs of senility.

[Roch]

Detectives assigned to investigate the call produced a short statement in the name of an Essex Police officer named Nicholas Milbank. The statement made no mention of anyone calling 999. Instead, it said that Milbank had been asked to monitor the open line into the Whitehouse, and had heard nothing until officers entered. Unusually, the statement had not been signed; Milbank’s name had been typed on the signature line.

I found Milbank, still working for the Essex Police, and he said that a call had come in at 6:09. “From what I can remember, someone phoned 999,” from “inside the farmhouse,” he told me. The caller had not spoken to him, but he recalled hearing what might have been muffled speech—perhaps a “voice or a radio”—and noises that could have been “a door opening and closing, or a chair being moved.” I asked if this suggested that someone had been alive in the house. “Well, obviously,” Milbank replied. When I mentioned the statement issued in his name, he was taken aback. He had given no such statement, he told me, and no one inquiring into the crime had ever contacted him. “No one’s spoken to me about it since the nineteen-eighties,” he said. “Other than you.”

Thanks Curiosity.

[Jane]

Thanks Curiosity.

Surely he'd be past -long past- retirement age by now? Had he still been working for EP he'd hardly have revealed such an anti EP statement. Had what he said been true, a call log would have been filled in when it happened. This call log is where?

[Curiosity]

It's now open season for MailOnline hacks - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13683277/White-House-Farm-murders-Jeremy-Bamber-New-Yorker-investigation-Essex-Police.html