Heidi Blake

I would just love a water.

I would love a little tea if that's all right.

One day this spring, I went to visit Philip Walker, a director of Jeremy Bamber's Innocence Campaign, with our producer, Natalie Jablonski.

Philip is a semi-retired company finance director who lives in a neat semi-detached house of brown shingles on England's south coast.

He helps direct a small but vocal group of Bamba supporters who've essentially devoted their lives to Jeremy's cause.

They hold meetings, issue press releases and troll through the case files looking for leads.

Philip told us he was partly drawn to the case because he feels a personal connection to Jeremy.

They're about the same age, and Philip, like Jeremy, was adopted through the Church of England Children's Society as a small boy.

So in a sense, there's a slight feeling of, you know, there but for the grace of God, go I. When Natalie and I went to see Philip this spring, it had been a few months since The New Yorker published my story outlining the fresh evidence about the silencer and the crime scene and the 999 call.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission had told Jeremy it was looking into the new evidence.

This was a huge moment because the CCRC is the only body in the UK that can compel the Court of Appeal to re-hear a case.

It was Jeremy's only clear path to proving his innocence and getting out of prison.

Well, I did ring you.

Philip speaks with Jeremy almost every day.

And on this day, they were both feeling full of optimism.

Within the next couple of weeks, after 40 years of fighting to overturn his conviction, Jeremy Bamber seemed finally to be on the verge of clearing his name.

From In the Dark and The New Yorker, I'm Heidi Blake.

This is the final episode of Blood Relatives.

It sort of doesn't quite make sense, because that would indicate someone was alive in there, basically.

Jeremy Bamber and his supporters had settled in to wait for news from the CCRC, news that could determine Jeremy's fate.