Of course we know that no DNA of Jodi’s was found on Luke and none of Luke’s DNA was found on Jodi and of course we know that a myriad of implausible reasons from an all-encompassing parka to a quick dip in the local brook have been put forward for the anomaly but what’s never been adequately explained is the lack of Jodi’s DNA on Luke’s mobile phone.
Mobile handsets in 2003 were not the flat, touchscreen models we have now but clunky handsets with deep set buttons and anyone who’s used one will know how grubby those vacant spaces around those buttons would get.
Of course after Jodi’s murder the police narrative depended heavily on Luke’s use of his mobile, from those texts from Jodi arranging to meet to the call to the speaking clock to the 17.40 call to Jodi’s landline and beyond, everything was tied to that mobile. No chance then of him using a replacement mobile. Yet where was the DNA from Jodi? That 17.40 phone call to the Jones’s house, laying the groundwork, we are told, for an alibi. That 17.40 call straight after Jodi’s murder when Luke’s hands would have been, unarguably, covered in blood and before, of course, he had any opportunity to wash his hands in that brook. Is it possible that he could have dialled those numbers without leaving even minute traces of blood or skin cells in those fiddly crevices?
Of course some may argue that Luke could have worn gloves but that’s a degree of planning, like changing the phone chip into a different handset, that you’d have to be a stranger to logic to believe.
This again is where we have that which was in the media against that which one had access to, and manipulating around it.
Let us have a look at the manipulation here. That, 'Luke had learnt from "another source" of an agreement made to not use the DNA evidence' where she (SL) says if that is the case (it was not evidence) then DF surely broke the agreement by stating that "There was no forensic evidence linking Luke to the murder" which she says should have left the Crown free to "roll out all and any DNA evidence they had to prove their case but they failed to do so ---------" (IB p.198-99).
I have absolutely no idea if it is actually the author who is dim, or simply treats the reader as such, that elite selection of people who see inference over wording.
Not evidence, there was only a futile, pointless exercise in rolling out "all and any DNA" The reports around 'him' introduced and agreement made to leave any discussion around the presence of his DNA upon the victim/clothing to the side. Absolutely no value to either side. The Crown were not going to attempt to place him at the murder by way of his DNA, the defence were not going to attempt to say it could have been left at any time. Making two things clear. That there was "no forensic evidence linking LM directly to the murder" that any presence of his DNA was of no value. Letting the court know the case was to be heard upon circumstantial evidence.
Two separate entities. "There was no forensic evidence found linking Luke Mitchell to the murder" not that there was "No DNA found of Luke Mitchell's at the scene (clothing/victim)"
Why blank and manipulate around the actual reason for that agreement? - It allows for nonsense such as "He managed to clean all trace of himself whilst leaving others"
There was no forensic evidence found pointing this murder to that of a stranger, to, a another. Proceeding with this case around circumstantial evidence equates to having nothing that can eliminate that evidence. There is no 'silver bullet' to be found that will erase the evidence that convicted LM. SK and the presence of his sperm/semen did not erase the evidence that convicted LM, neither did it erase the presence of LM's DNA.
You are being spun a yarn, led into some fantasy of hope. That something magical could happen by re-testing the original samples. For goodness sake, one has not even been told what the actual findings of the SCCRC were, why do you think that is? It has been that claim of 'they didn't carry out enough testing adequately?' What does that even mean? That they failed to produce some 'silver bullet?' Or that they simply clarified and confirmed more so the presence of LM's DNA. That agreement made, that whilst we are going to leave LM's DNA aside, proceed purely on the basis of circumstantial evidence, there was no claim by the defence that only SK's DNA was found and none of LM's. Definitely however, that the presence of SK's had to be explained in full.
I asked that question on the red forum to the man who has himself as a forensic expert. What 'silver bullet' can be found to erase the case against LM? We already had before that Jury the semen/sperm of another person, someone else's DNA - wake up.
The only and main thing to highlight in this, once more is the why? Why, if SL is not playing dumb around this agreement, does she NOT know the actual reason for it? This self professed expert? Because it is not about truth and disclosure it is about deflection and bias? It is about using what can be sourced and manipulating around that which can not be sourced. - If it didn't say it in the media then it can't be true scenario? It allows for nonsense waffle, around applying multiple reasons as to why it MAY have been made, distracting from the actual reason. Where one wished to invent this 'forensic evidence' around a circumstantial case.
The old massive button phone scenario again? - Does this prove LM was not the killer? Where you are blatantly applying your intellect to this, are you not? If I was the killer I would not have been aware of such things as forensic evidence, man handling my phone with contaminated fingers. All this 'absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.' - Forensically aware, affluent, time and data being knocked out repeatedly, entirely indicative of someone having more than one handset, swapping sims about. That is logic, looking to reason why it was always knocked out. But the straightforward answer is that of being protected (the phone from contamination). The only planning required is awareness.
And this 'walking away from the murder with nothing upon him?' - Don't be silly now. No one nabbed LM directly after the murder. If this had happened and there was nothing upon him, then that really would have been proof of innocence. It didn't.