Yahoo News Requiem writer to make Jeremy Bamber drama series
ITV is to continue its run of turning real-life crime stories into TV dramas by making a series based on the Jeremy Bamber murder case.
According to Radio Times, the broadcaster is in the process of creating a six-part series which has the working title The White House Farm Murders.
It's being scripted by Kris Mrksa, the writer who recently delivered creepy – and, according to viewers, slightly confusing – BBC One thriller Requiem.
The series will dramatise the night of August 6 1985, when Nevill and June Bamber were shot and killed at their Essex farmhouse.
Their adopted daughter, Sheila Caffell, and Sheila's 6-year-old twins, Daniel and Nicholas, were also murdered.
After a police investigation, Jeremy Bamber – Nevill and June's adopted son – was arrested for the murders.
He was convicted of five counts of murder in October 1986 and sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison, although he was later told that he will never be released.
[Jeremy Bamber pictured leaving a police station, 1988]
Bamber still denies that he was involved in the deaths.
Mrksa told Radio Times: "There's a strong procedural line running through it but it's really more about the characters. I think there's a complex story there of the pressures and resentments and dysfunction of families."
An ITV spokesperson added: "We can confirm a drama series entitled The White House Farm Murders is being developed for ITV."
ITV is also currently creating a drama series based on the hunt for serial killer Levi Bellfield, who was found guilty of killing teenager Milly Dowler in 2002.
Manhunt will see Martin Clunes play DCI Colin Sutton, the lead detective on the investigation.
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