I’ve been writing to Jeremy Bamber for years, but suddenly the prison has stopped me. Why? | Simon Hattenstone

Prisoners have a right to communicate with the media about their cases. Yet after 41 years in jail, Bamber has been banned A few weeks ago I wrote a lengthy email to Jeremy Bamber, who has been in prison for nearly 41 years after being convicted of murdering five family members. Bamber has always protested his innocence, and the late Guardian prison correspondent Eric Allison and I have frequently written about Bamber and the White House Farm murders in the Guardian over the years. In the ema...

By Simon Hattenstone