Heidi Blake

He was 67 years old, and Essex Police had published a notice thanking him for 50 years of service.

He'd started out as a police cadet when he was about 17.

But yeah, so that's it.

Yeah.

We'd had no idea that Nick Milbank might be ill, and the news was still sinking in.

Because his death was not only tragic for his family, it had huge implications for Jeremy Bamber's case.

Like now no one can ever speak to him about this.

Like the CCRC have not spoken to him and he's produced this bizarre statement.

And now, wow.

Yeah, it's kind of wild that he's his employer of 50 years has come to him and like he's given them a statement, which kind of kicks all of this down the road by kind of saying he never really spoke to me when he did.

And now he's gone.

And now the CCRC can't ever interview him about that phone call.

And now we'll never know why he made the one statement to us and then told Essex police that he never spoke to us.

Yeah.

So, like, we're just left with this kind of, we've got this tape.

This tape is the only document now of what Nick Milbank heard that night.

That's the only, like, glimpse through the White House window.

Like, it's just what he heard.

Later that day, I got a call from Wakefield Prison.

Jeremy does still have a right to challenge the CCRC's decision on the fresh evidence, and there are still a few subsidiary points from his original application that the CCRC has yet to rule on.