The murder of 14 year-old schoolgirl Jodi Jones near Edinburgh on 30 June 2003

[John]

Very interesting reading chaps.

The two things that don't add up for me are;

1). None of Luke's DNA on Jodi

2). Corinnes testimony.  I find it hard to believe that she would cover for her son, if she thought that he was responsible for such a heinous crime.

However, I'm off now to look for the testimony from the girl who alleged that Luke threatened her days before the murder.

1. It rained on the body overnight Neil washing off most of the evidence.  The numpties at Lothian and Borders Police didn't even erect a forensic tent to protect the scene.  The SOCO who attended the scene initially was so fat she couldn't get over the wall to inspect the body so it was left until morning.

2. See above post re mother and son relationship.

[nugnug]

You might be surprised what some mothers will do to protect their sons.  If I recall there was a lot of talk about Luke and his mother and some might find these comments from the Herald somewhat worrying.


It is abundantly clear that things were dreadfully amiss in the Mitchell household: there appears, from the evidence in court, beneath the well maintained, affluent surface, to have been a spiritual and psychological squalor which manifested itself in violence, pornography, underage sex, drug-taking, lack of cleanliness and an unusual physical intimacy between son and mother. The trial appeared to expose them as people adrift, cut off from normal emotional and behavioural frameworks.

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/why-did-luke-mitchell-kill-his-mother-holds-a-clue-1.64902

i think the fact they had to resort t such sick and baseless smears shows how weak the case agianst luke was.

[nugnug]

1. It rained on the body overnight Neil washing off most of the evidence.

2. See above post re mother and son relationship.

the rain dident wash everything off it traces of other peoples dna on there.

[John]

the rain dident wash everything off it traces of other peoples dna on there.

That's right, it just washed Luke Mitchell's off. 

[nugnug]

i think thats more less impossble.

rain cant selectivly wash off dna.

[John]

Luke Mitchell - Interview with Sky's James Matthews

http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=67.msg458#msg458

JAMES MATTHEWS:   I suppose the difficulty is from 5 p.m. to whenever Jodie was found, that's a long time to fill and to account for, especially if you lose track of time.  The question I suppose for detectives, for people who look at that is could anybody account for every minute in that sort of period?  Can you, can you account for every minute?

LUKE:   No.  Well the police seem to expect people to, as you say, pin down every minute of their life, to expect us to know when we do small insignificant things like doing the dishes, expect us to have a time for that, it isn’t possible to keep a pin of every minute that you do something.

JAMES MATTHEWS:   This burning of clothes keeps getting mentioned and there is also the subject of a missing knife, is that your missing knife?

LUKE:   No.  The burning clothes that wasn’t us.  They just stated that a female relative of the suspect admitted to burning clothes.




Sky News interview. Corinne Mitchell supports son Luke.

[John]

James Matthews from Sky News interviewed Luke Mitchell on the day of Jodi's funeral.

He adds...

Professor Paul Ekman is the world authority on the analysis of facial expression. He is an adviser to the FBI and CIA. In the course of the Jodi Jones murder inquiry, he became a consultant to Lothian & Borders Police.

Edinburgh-based detectives flew to San Fransisco to show my interview to Professor Ekman. He spent hours viewing the tape frame by frame, analysing the miniscule muscle movements on Mitchell's face. In the end, he supported police suspicions about Jodi's boyfriend.

According to Police sources, Prof. Ekman found that amongst the emotions on show by Luke Mitchell was one of delight as he delivered his alibi that was subsequently exposed as a lie.

http://miscarriageofjustice.co/index.php?topic=67.msg18108#msg18108

[gordo30]

Then some years later as that same professor was used as a consultant on a movie about HIS micro expressionism reacted to a question about the Luke Mitchell case, he replied that in that case where he simply couldn't tell if the suspect was lying or not due to his intense mistrust of the police and those seeking to persue him. Tell me John what Prof Ekman stated at the trial?

[gordo30]

James Matthews from Sky News interviewed Luke Mitchell on the day of Jodi's funeral.

This is something that doesn't sit right with me john, the interview for the sky report was done on the day of the funeral and it was that interview that was given to Prof Ekman where he delivered is points "to catch a killer" these were not done on the same day so how could the sky interveiwer put these points to the mitchells?

[Lithium]

Mat, SL didn't accuse Shane in the application mate. Where did you hear that?

I've a copy of it.

[nugnug]

This is something that doesn't sit right with me john, the interview for the sky report was done on the day of the funeral and it was that interview that was given to Prof Ekman where he delivered is points "to catch a killer" these were not done on the same day so how could the sky interveiwer put these points to the mitchells?

well they obviously couldn't of done.

[guest154]

Mat, SL didn't accuse Shane in the application mate. Where did you hear that?

I've a copy of it.

Yeah, I know you have a copy - I thought you'd also said it previously in this thread about SL . I will PM you the details as I don't want to get my hand slapped for posting in here about it further.

[Lithium]

Yeah, I know you have a copy - I thought you'd also said it previously in this thread about SL . I will PM you the details as I don't want to get my hand slapped for posting in here about it further.

She heavily implicated Jodi's brother not Luke's, maybe there's been a misunderstanding either with yourself or the source.

[guest154]

She heavily implicated Jodi's brother not Luke's, maybe there's been a misunderstanding either with yourself or the source.

Oh thanks, Lith. That's very interesting.

[nugnug]

She heavily implicated Jodi's brother not Luke's, maybe there's been a misunderstanding either with yourself or the source.

out of interest lithium how would you have been given a copy.