Has anyone seen this? I only recently started watching and I think it's very well-made. The acting is brilliant (especially the actors playing Jeremy and Sheila). I think it's bases on Sheila's ex-husband's book.
Spoilers in the unlikely event someone doesn't know the true story
I have always been interested in this case and have in the past thought that the actual evidence against him was very weak and mainly based on the fact that he was behaving badly after/before the murders.
I didn't realise how close the police came to closing the case. Although Jeremy comes off like a total arsehole in the series (and in real life) I can't say his girlfriend Julie fares much better. She kept completely quiet until Jeremy dumped her and let the bodies be cremated and only came forward over a month later once they had broken up.
The way the police handled the evidence was shocking and there are still quite a few holes in the police version of events. The main evidence against him - the silencer - wasn't even found by police, but by the beneficiaries of the estate if he was imprisoned. The house was locked from the inside and even with the faulty latch window it was not possible to get inside the house through that window, only to exit. Julie's initial hitman account proved to be wrong. There was no forensic evidence linking him to the scene and I believe he wouldn't have had time to kill them all and then leave/return in time for the police.
It appears that his behaviour made him a suspect and then they found evidence to fit that theory. He may very well be guilty, but this case was really badly mishandled by the police and he could just as easily have been acquitted based on the flimsy circumstantial evidence.
I was also wondering why he would kill the kids? They weren't going to inherit the estate anyway as long as he was alive.
Was Jeremy Bamber truly "evil almost beyond belief" as the sentencing judge put it or was this a massive miscarriage of justice?