Billy jo jenkins

[joolz1975]

I remember this crime taking place and was sure her foster dad had done it ( he looked odd, daft i know) but after 6 years in prison he was freed on appeal.

Her killer has never been found.

A man seen in the vicinity of the property (with severe mental health issues who had been loitering in the park opposite and also was seen in the same department store as Billy the day befire acting odd) was never questioned about her murder ( in part because his Dr said he wasnt fit to be questioned because of his phychosis) but also because blood was found on her foster dads fleece, the police went after Sion Jenkins with a vengeance.

It wasnt even mentioned at the first trial that an object was inserted into Billie Jos nasal passage which was not seen to be done in anger (which is why they said her foster dad had bludgeoned her) the object seemed to have more significance.

It emerged after that the mystery man seen loitering and an obsession with inserting objects into open spaces has he felt 'evil' could escape from them.

I cannot believe this case has not been reopened and this man not looked at in more detail!

That poor girl deserves justice and her foster dad (who has only seen his birth children twice sincs his arrest) deserves to have the guilty tag thats hung over his head since removed! He wasnt freed on a technicality he was Found not guilty on appeal.

[mike tesko]

I remember this crime taking place and was sure her foster dad had done it ( he looked odd, daft i know) but after 6 years in prison he was freed on appeal.

Her killer has never been found.

A man seen in the vicinity of the property (with severe mental health issues who had been loitering in the park opposite and also was seen in the same department store as Billy the day befire acting odd) was never questioned about her murder ( in part because his Dr said he wasnt fit to be questioned because of his phychosis) but also because blood was found on her foster dads fleece, the police went after Sion Jenkins with a vengeance.

It wasnt even mentioned at the first trial that an object was inserted into Billie Jos nasal passage which was not seen to be done in anger (which is why they said her foster dad had bludgeoned her) the object seemed to have more significance.

It emerged after that the mystery man seen loitering and an obsession with inserting objects into open spaces has he felt 'evil' could escape from them.

I cannot believe this case has not been reopened and this man not looked at in more detail!

That poor girl deserves justice and her foster dad (who has only seen his birth children twice sincs his arrest) deserves to have the guilty tag thats hung over his head since removed! He wasnt freed on a technicality he was Found not guilty on appeal.

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I understand your frustration with this matter, and would just like to mention that when the police get a suspect, they set out to frame him /her by presenting information and evidence that is likely to get such a suspect convicted, by the time the matter comes to trial...

The framing of persons by these means, is in my view, a natural process by which cases like this, are progressed through the system...

[Kaldin]

I never thought that Sion Jenkins did it - to me it seemed absurd that he would kill Billie Jo and then get in his car a few minutes later as if nothing happened.

It was interesting in that the forensic evidence wasn't enough - it was the interpretation of that evidence which led to his conviction and later on it led to his release.

[Hartley]

I understand your frustration with this matter, and would just like to mention that when the police get a suspect, they set out to frame him /her by presenting information and evidence that is likely to get such a suspect convicted, by the time the matter comes to trial...

The framing of persons by these means, is in my view, a natural process by which cases like this, are progressed through the system...

Well that depends on someone's definition of framing, personally I'd see it as they compile sufficient evidence in order to obtain a conviction, rather than framing.

I see the term framed or framing as fitting someone up without evidence.

[mb1]

At no point has Sion Jenkins stated the police 'framed him'. Good old BW has a book out there that 'speculates' far more than did those closely involved in the case, but a boring science argument doesn't get a publishing deal.  And this appeal DID make new case law...

The 'mystery man' was a semi-vagrant who spent a great deal of time by the children's play area in Alexandra Park (opposite the house) and near the badger sett at the far end of the gardens. One of his main obsessions was carrier bags. A tiny piece of a carrier bag had been forced up to the bridge of Billie-Jo's nose (I believe with the tent peg). This evidence was in the pathologist's report and available at the trial, but no-one had considered the full ramifications. It did not become 'all important' to the trial or subsequent appeals. However, it was of the  utmost importance to friends and neighbours of Sion as it gave them considerable cause for grave doubt and the impetus to rally on his behalf.
 
Investigations have been made and there are strong indications that the 'mystery man' is deceased. 

The evidence that released Sion actually related to 'blood spatter' - basically whether Billie-Jo was alive when microscopic blood particles were airborne onto his clothing, or whether they could have been produced when attempts were made to revive an already dead child.

Sion was not found 'not guilty' on appeal. Appeal led to two re-trials, with hung juries in both instances, largely due to the technical nature of the arguments presented. After the second re-trial the prosecution decided it could no longer pursue the case and Sion was effectively released on a technicality, hence his failure to receive any compensation for wrongful imprisonment.

As someone who (some 2 years after conviction) supported Sion, yet works within the legal profession, I have to be honest and admit that I cannot categorically state his innocence or guilt. However, given the forensic arguments - and, for me, the carrier bag - I believe justice has been served in Sion's case. 

Whether justice has been served for Billie-Jo is a different issue.

   


 

[John]

Sion lost his wife and family, his job and career and was never compensated for the wrongdoing he suffered and continues to suffer.

Where exactly in all of this has justice been done can you tell me?

[Kaldin]

Sion lost his wife and family, his job and career and was never compensated for the wrongdoing he suffered and continues to suffer.

Where exactly in all of this has justice been done can you tell me?

True, but then his wife didn't sound much of a loss considering how she turned on him. He's married again hasn't he? I hope his daughters have made up with him now.

I don't really get why anyone thought he did it. If he'd beaten her like that he would have been covered in blood, but there were only small drops on his clothes - and that could have happened just as he said it did.

[Stephanie]

I think the term some of you are looking for is 'nobel cause corruption,' as opposed to 'fitting up' or 'stitched up.'

This is what I believe happened in my husbands case. (Simon Hall)

Though I still think it's pretty much the same. Only when we use these terms it sounds as though the police were on a mission to go after the wrong person in the first place and of course we can't go pointing fingers can we..

Have a read of the following article:

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=313&c=noble_cause_corruption

[John]

Sion lost his wife and family, his job and career and was never compensated for the wrongdoing he suffered and continues to suffer.

Where exactly in all of this has justice been done can you tell me?

True, but then his wife didn't sound much of a loss considering how she turned on him. He's married again hasn't he? I hope his daughters have made up with him now.

I don't really get why anyone thought he did it. If he'd beaten her like that he would have been covered in blood, but there were only small drops on his clothes - and that could have happened just as he said it did.

Very true Kaldin, you would have thought that his wife at least would have known him better then to believe that he was a cold blooded killer.  It just makes you wonder if she was only looking for a way out anyway.  Given that she emigrated to Tasmania was this in the back of her mind in any event?

This quote from Siôn's website is interesting...

"The behaviour of Siôn Jenkins' former wife has been a crucial factor since the time of the murder, when it had a direct impact on public perceptions of the case."

Lois Jenkins moved to Tasmania four years after Siôn Jenkins’ trial for murder and three years after his failed first appeal. Inexplicably, she had taken no part in either process, despite being a key witness. At the time her silence seemed eloquent.

However, seven years after the murder—when a second appeal meant the real possibility that his conviction might be overturned—she flew back from the other side of the world to speak out as a prosecution witness even though her detailed memory of events must have faded.

The following year she was a prosecution witness at both retrials. The first time this was by video link. When the jury was not convinced of his guilt and a second retrial was ordered she flew across the world again to give evidence against her former husband. By now she had a great deal to say.


What is that all about???

[nugnug]

what i have never really understood is why was charged with lying on a cv and murder how are the 2 connected.

[nugnug]

the m.o for this murder looks very simlar to the work mr levi belfield.

[joolz1975]

the m.o for this murder looks very simlar to the work mr levi belfield.

As far as im aware Levi Belfield didnt have a liking for shoving carrier bags up his victims nostrils

[nugnug]

that's a fair point.

i suspected belifild because trademark was battering women and girls to the head with a blunt instrument.

but yes as far as i know he did not stick bits of bin liner up his victims nostrils.

i don't Jenkins did this but i dont think the other suspect the mental patient did ether.

[wichfinder]

well anyone who would lie cv to get a jobs clearly capabel of anything including murdering children thank god we have brillant cops like jeremy pain to notice things like that.

[nugnug]

i wonder if this case might warrant a forum of its own.