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10 January 2019

'I was told to think carefully about doing it': Freddie Fox on
portraying Jeremy Bamber, the murderer still protesting his

innocence

Freddie Fox shot for Telegraph Magazine;
Fox wears: wool jumper, Prada; cotton trousers, and
gabardine shoes, both
Prada CREDIT: PHOTOGRAPHY BY NIK HARTLEY. STYLED BY
TONA STELL

Guy Kelly
10 JANUARY 2020 • 6:00PM

Born into an acting dynasty, Freddie Fox has proved himself with roles as varied as a Victorian
detective and a ‘bisexual nympho’. But playing Jeremy Bamber, the handsome 1980s playboy
notoriously convicted of killing his whole family in cold blood, in a new TV drama, has tested him
to the limit. Guy Kelly meets him.

As murder cases go, it has all the ingredients required to shock and snare even the most grizzled
true-crime obsessive. A massacre of innocents, committed in cold blood. A touch of glamour, in the
form of a fashion-model victim and a handsome, charismatic killer. A substantial inheritance at
stake. A big, gloomy house set among idyllic English countryside. And then the clincher – a
question propelling decades of amateur detective work, conspiracy theories and appeals to this
very day: is the man who has spent more than 30 years in prison for the murder of five members of
his family really innocent?

‘Fascinating, isn’t it?’ Freddie Fox says, blowing on a spoonful of cauliflower soup in a restaurant
in east London. Members of a certain generation will know all about the events depicted in
ITV’s White House Farm, such was the notoriety of the case when it occurred in 1985. Before it