7th of August 1985 five members of the Bamber family were shot dead in a remote farm house in Essex.
Sheila was the first suspect, for she had suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was receiving treatment for it. Sheila had been admitted to hospital on two occasions and lost custody of her two children to their father.
During the investigation the family of June Bamber protested that Sheila knew nothing about guns and found it impossible to accept that Sheila could have committed such a crime. It was their opinion that it was her brother Jeremy that had murdered his family.
We are in a modern age where we witness time after time that paranoid schizophrenics commit horrendous crimes out of the blue....
It is a case of what happened after the events that makes this case unusual and throws doubt whether or not Jeremy did commit the crime he is sentenced for.....
I have doubts and if I doubt something then I have stay neutral. 
And how many of those schizophrenics did so out of the blue while being successfully treated by medication?
How many when they were being over tansquilized?
How many killed their entire family becuase of delusions and then also themselves?
How many did so without leaving any physical evidence?
How many managed to walk around after they were dead to do things like put away things or move items in their blood and then put there body in a different position?
The simple fact she was schizophrenic is not enough to overlook the physical evidence let alone to say a schizophrenic is likely to do something when being successfully treated.
Everytime I challenge people to provide examples of schizophrenics who were being successfully treated, not skipping their medication and not udner the influence of drugs or alcohol who committed murder or attempted murder during the course of a psychotic episode I am met with silence.
The only medication she wasn't taking was the agent to counter the tranquilizing effects and tremors caused by Haloperidol. The counter gives energy and stops the tremors allowing for more dexterity. So she was even less liekly to be able to do it as a result of not taking such medication not moreso liek some want to pretend.
The time of night also is totally inconsistent. SHe was tired and woudl have been expected according to her doctor to sleep soundly. Thus it would be unlikely for her to get up at all around 3AM let alone to get up and then start having delusions where she decides to kill people who are in bed. You kill people and the situation gets worse when they are around you not when they are sleeping.
When she wasn't on her meds and had psychotic epidoses troubling interactions with people set her off. It is already hard enough to believe that she was up and Nevill went to see what she was doing, she was a grown woman. But if she did have a psychotic episode and delusions and decided to kill him she would have opened fire in the kitchen on him.
If she committed the murders she would have had evidence on her clothing and body but had none because she didn't do it and the evidence shows she can't have killed herself. Then when you look into Jeremy's claims they fall apart and it becoems obvious he was trying to frame his sister. WHy would he do that unless he were the killer? This is not a case where it appears that Nevill really made the phone call to Jeremy but did so at gunpoint from someoen else who wanted to frame Sheila. Jeremy staged bullets and said he left the gun out for her he did the framing.
That is why this is not a close case for many people.
