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The victims: Bamber’s sister Sheila Caffell and her twin sons CREDIT: ANGLIA PRESS AGENCY
Fox is well informed on the case. Dressed in a black hoodie, black scarf and a double-breasted
tweed coat, his hair is back to its usual golden blond after being dyed raven black for Bamber, and
he’s keen to talk about him. Albeit very carefully.

In the summer of 2018 he was starring in a West End production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal
Husband with his father when his agent told him he had an audition to play Bamber. The pair
would discuss it in their dressing room before and after every show.

‘My dad remembered the case, and a lot about Bamber, and he said I should think carefully about
doing it, because afterwards I have to be prepared to have the care to talk about someone who’s
still alive, and about a case that’s still in the public consciousness.’

That’s good, but I can’t really imagine Fox being careless talking about anything. He is almost
tyrannically polite and charming, and, as you might expect of somebody raised in a pack of upper-
class thespians (in addition to the many, many Foxes, his mother is the actor Joanna David), his
every utterance comes as a measured, um-less paragraph.

But the caution is understandable. The Bamber case is one of those rare British crimes that any
amateur sleuth has an opinion on. He is also said to be readying another appeal, has long had
enduring support from campaigners who believe he is the victim of one of Britain’s worst
miscarriages of justice, and only last month his lawyers launched a high court challenge to the
Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).