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On a sunny day in April last year,
I arrived outside a gabled farmhouse deep in the Essex countryside.
A place not far from White House Farm where the Bamba family had been killed.
Let's go and see what's going on.
I walked through a big yard full of tractors and other farm equipment.
A row of mud-spattered Range Rovers were parked in the drive.
I knocked on the door and waited on the porch of the farmhouse.
Through the windows I could see shotgun cartridges stacked against the glass.
After a few minutes, I saw someone coming around the side.
David Bowflower is part of the Bambas extended family, Jeremy and Sheila's cousin.
He's in his 70s now with a farmer's tan and grizzled hair.
I'd written to him a few weeks earlier to ask him to talk to me about the murders at White House Farm.
I was here to talk to David
because I wanted to understand how this apparently clear-cut case of murder suicide had turned so decisively against Jeremy Bamber.
How had Jeremy gone from being the bereaved son weeping on the lawn of his family's manor to sitting in prison convicted of their murder?