I don't know how much of this you are aware of Janet but I have had several conversations with Scott Forbes a few months back when I was able to furnish him and Mitchell's new legal team with some information relating to other suspects in the case.
Scott went into a lot of detail about his involvement with the case and Mark Kane in particular. Kane was a recovering drug addict on a methadone programme and studying at Newbattle Abbey College in Dalkeith. According to Forbes, Kane had written a college essay about killing a girl in the woods - but a lecturer had dismissed that as untrue, the appeal court heard.
I think it is only fair to point out that Scott categorically denies that there was any plan to sell the story to the newspapers for £50k. I personally have no reason to disbelieve him.
Scott told me that he took Kane personally to the police station the morning after the murder when he showed up dishevelled and with scratches on his face. Kane has never been able to account for the marks. Scott also told me that he telephoned the police on several occasions thereafter regarding the case and Kane's possible involvement.
It seems that the police were slow to react to this information and initially failed to trace Kane. They did however manage to secure CCTV footage from a shop some distance away from the crime-scene which showed Kane making a purchase. It seems that this evidence was enough to satisfy the police that Kane was nowhere near the crime-scene when the murder occurred.
Crown Advocate, John Beckett, later told the appeal judges scrapings from Jodi's fingernails had been examined by forensic scientists and the only DNA match was Jodi's herself.
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