He did this interview with the Herald last year:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16881794.luke-mitchell-interview-i-would-rather-stay-behind-bars-than-admit-my-guilt-for-murder-of-jodie-jones/
I wonder why James English was not allowed when this was? I guess the major thing is that James English would be recording and the other was a newspaper article.
If it's a simple decision that anyone convicted of murder should not be allowed to be filmed/audio recorded in prison, then we would expect that ruling to apply across the board - to all prisoners convicted of murder?
There have been interviews with people convicted of murder in English prisons, both filmed and audio recorded, but we can't include them because, as I've pointed out many times before, the rules are different in Scotland.
So how was this allowed in Scotland just 2 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVKiIa9RXwQWilliam Gage has always protested his innocence - he lost his appeal in 2012. It's an actor who appears in the visual film in the link above but it's a recording of William Gage's voice.
Is it because, in this instance, WG is talking not about his own circumstances, but about the realities of prison life? Whatever the reason, it was allowed.
Incidentally, Harper, he didn't "do this interview with the Herald" - the interview was with a student as part of her final dissertation and was picked up, with others, by the Herald when the student not only received a 1st class pass, but also won a number of awards for her work. Had she been interviewing Luke "for the Herald," I doubt she would have been allowed past the prison doors.