Bamber accompanied by Julie Mugford attends his parents funeral.
Jeremy Bamber (born 1961) was the son of a vicar's daughter who had an affair with a married army sergeant, and subsequently gave her baby up for adoption when he was six weeks old. He was adopted by Nevill and June Bamber who sent him to Gresham's School, a boarding school in Norfolk, then to college in Colchester.
Jeremy spent time in Australia and New Zealand, before returning to work on his father's farm near Tolleshunt D'arcy for £170 a week.
The Bamber extended family also ran a lucrative caravan site called Osea Road Caravan Park, but according to The Times they would not let Bamber work there, saying he had no business sense. His former girlfriend (Julie Mugford) later revealed at his trial that she and Bamber had broken into the caravan site premises and ransacked it before making off with a substantial sum of money. Nevill and June Bamber were apparently unaware when they died that their adopted son had been responsible for the robbery.
Jeremy set up home in a cottage at 9 Head Street, Goldhanger, some three to three-and-a-half miles from his parents' farmhouse. Nevill owned the cottage and Bamber lived there rent-free. It took five minutes to drive by car from the cottage to his parents' home, and about 15 minutes by bicycle as revealed at his trial.
