Murderer Jeremy Bamber has had a bid for ballistics evidence which he claims could set him free rejected by the High Court. The 59-year-old is serving life behind bars for the 1985 killings of his adoptive parents Nevill and June, both 61, his sister Sheila Caffell, 26, and her six-year-old twins Daniel and Nicholas.
A senior judge blocked his request for access to 27 documents from the Crown Prosecution Service which he says could help guns expert Philip Boyce decide whether a second silencer was at the scene of the crimes.
Bamber claims schizophrenic Sheila killed the family and shot herself. Prosecutors at his 1986 trial said she could not have reached the trigger if the silencer was attached.
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