Thank you Harper.
And why would I take such a risk for people I didn't even know at the time? Why risk my own and my daughters' safety?
I have nothing to hide and nothing to fear in relation to what is in the case papers. Never, in over 16 years, has anyone tried to sue me for anything I have claimed about what is in the papers. Why might that be? Because they would have to prove I was lying and they can't, because I'm not.
Actually, my goals are not only to get Luke a successful appeal, retrial and released. My main goal is a simple one - to get the truth for Luke and his family, Jodi and hers and all of the rest of us out here who still don't know, to this day, who really killed Jodi. Because, if it wasn't Luke, then the person capable of such a horrific crime has been undetected for over sixteen years. For those who don't believe that's possible:
it took more 20 years to link Angus Sinclair with the murders of four women - he was free for five years, raping and indecently assaulting other women and girls
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, evaded police for six years
it took sixteen years to finally get to the truth about who killed Rachel Nickell in 1992.
In all of these cases, even though these men were committing other crimes, investigators failed to link them. In fact, had investigators managed to link information they had on file, over a four year period, for Robert Napper with the murder of Rachel Nickell (after their spectacular failure in focusing on Colin Stagg), Samantha and Jasmine Bissett would be alive today.
Peter Sutcliffe was "in the system" from 1969 and he was interviewed 9 times during the height of the Ripper investigation ( 1975 - 1980) - how many women would be still alive had those links been made?
It's been said so many times Luke has to be Jodi's killer because there have been "no other similar crimes" since January 2005.
That, of course, is blatantly untrue and also fails to account for similar crimes before 2003. It doesn't take much to scratch the surface and see how many similar attacks on girls and young women there have been, before and since.
All I ask is that people consider the question - what if other connections were never made because the initial investigation focused so quickly (and single-mindedly) on Luke and what if no other possibilities have ever been considered since? Are we happy to call that justice?