campion asked (on another thread)
I am very interested in this case. Do you have information as to what length of questioning Stephen Kelly underwent regarding his DNA profile and the victim. Also the other cases that You have looked into ?
On September 17th 2003, 11 weeks after the murder, SK gave a statement about a number of points he'd been asked to "clarify" - one of these was the "borrowed T shirt." There are three very short paragraphs in the statement relating to this - he says his girlfriend told him one of her black t shirts is missing, he describes the t-shirt(s) and concludes that Jodi must have been wearing "the other one" because his girlfriend can't find it, and then adds that when he gets undressed at the grandmother's house (where his girlfriend lives), their clothes just get dropped on the floor and "mixed up together."
To our knowledge, that's it - all there is.What's interesting, though, is neither he nor his girlfriend (Jodi's sister) has ever mentioned two identical t shirts until this point - when the sister handed over the t-shirt she was "wearing" that night, from memory, a week or so after the murder, she did not say to the police, I have two of these - they're identical, but I can't find the other one. She simply did not mention a second t shirt. This is quite important because the morning after the murder, the grandmother started doing the whole extended family's washing - the other t shirt could have been returned, as other items had been, to the mother's house.
Again, to our knowledge, the DNA results were back around July 16th, just a couple of weeks after the murder, but these statements do not appear until 11 weeks after the murder, and both the sister and the boyfriend come up with the same story about identical t shirts which neither has mentioned previously. Presumably, because both the sister an the boyfriend mention their clothes being dropped on the floor "mixed up together," they had been told about the DNA and were "offering" (or had been offered) an "innocent explanation.
Also, Jodi's mother mentions buying identical t-shirts - one for each daughter, but it hasn't been possible to determine whether the description of those t-shirts is the same as the sister/boyfriend description. If it is, then either there are 4 identical t-shirts, in which case it would be impossible to claim that the one worn by Jodi that night was her sister's, or the two identical t shirts did not both belong to the sister - the girls had one each. That, though, would demolish the "innocent explanation" for the boyfriend's DNA on the t shirt Jodi was wearing.
Other cases I have looked into - to be honest, over the years, I have looked into dozens - I couldn't even hazard a guess at how many. Cases I have become actively involved in amount to probably between 12 and 15, with occasional input or reports into maybe another 20 or so. There's a distinction between writing about cases, and being actively involved in the processes of a case, and of course, sometimes there's also an overlap, and I end up doing both!
Here's the link to the chapter on Luke again, for anyone who didn't see it on the other thread:
http://caseblog.wronglyaccusedperson.org.uk/luke-mitchell-is-innocent/no-smoke/Please bear in mind, though, that we've found so much more in the five years since the book came out that this chapter is really just the starting point!
