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

[Stephanie]

Only one person who harrasses anyone on here with utter drivel..
Is this the same information you claim to know but refuse to divulge . Is that because if it came from xxx xxxx xxx xx xxx xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx.
Wonder why?.
Why would anyone believe you? I mean really

As I've stated, it's clear you have a personal agenda and it's clear you don't have the courage to ask Sandra directly..

Instead, you'd rather make false & malicious allegations about me in order to fit with your apparent personal agenda.

[Stephanie]

Because Luke told her "Find Jodi!" on the way back? He already decided they were looking for a dead Jodi at that point? Or did he think she may have been hanging around in the woods in the dark? (and if the latter, why wasn't he calling out her name?)

Good point. It's these numerous clues, especially when added together, that do not assist Luke's claims of innocence.

[nugnug]

if im looking for a 14 year old girl who is late home going the asumption that shes alive and well and if shes only an hour late theres no reason to think she isnt i dont think the woods would be the first place i would like.

her friends houses would be the first place id check then probely the center of town.

[sandra L]

I'm serious. If I thought I was looking for a living person I'd be calling her name, not shining a torch onto undergrowth.

But it wasn't Luke who was doing that, it was Kelly. Luke was looking over gaps in the wall and in the crop field because he hadn't seen anything on the path on the way up (That's from the family search trio's statmentts.)

By your argument, Jodi's family members must also have thought they were looking for a dead person, because they set out with torches as well, and they headed to the one place Jodi was (apparently) definitely not going to be that evening. They didn't look for her on the way there - didn't even turn on their torches until they got to the entrance to the path.

And neither Janine or Steven called out Jodi's name either - do you suggest they too were acting suspiciously? Can't have it both ways.

Something I did find strange, though - Janine said, regarding Luke climbing up to shine his torch over the wall, and going into the crop field, "It was as if he was looking for something." What could she possibly have meant by that? They were all looking for something - or rather, someone - Jodi.

[nugnug]

my main qustion what was the search party there for a girls an hour late why go searching for her in a dark wood on the imfortion they had it was a strange thing to do.

i mean you would only look in the wood if you knew that ws the last place they had been at the time they had no way of knowing that.


but they seem convinced she is in the woods even though they havent checked more obvios places.

[John]

Because Luke told her "Find Jodi!" on the way back? He already decided they were looking for a dead Jodi at that point? Or did he think she may have been hanging around in the woods in the dark? (and if the latter, why wasn't he calling out her name?)

Another mystery is why, after Luke Mitchell had just walked the entire length of Roan's Dyke path with the family German Shepherd Mia supposedly looking for Jodi, did the entire group then decide to retrace his route instead of looking for her elsewhere?

If the dog really was capable of scenting Jodi, why didn't she react the first time she passed the body when there were no distractions instead of doing so on the return journey when there were numerous distractions? 

All adds to the circumstantial evidence!

[Stephanie]

Another mystery is why, after Luke Mitchell had just walked the entire length of Roan's Dyke path with the family German Shepherd Mia supposedly looking for Jodi, did the entire group then decide to retrace his route instead of looking for her elsewhere?

If the dog really was capable of scenting Jodi, why didn't she react the first time she passed the body when there were no distractions instead of doing so on the return journey when there were numerous distractions? 

All adds to the circumstantial evidence!

Agreed.

Of course someone's again going to post that Mia wasn't in 'tracker mode' at this point 

Luke knew before he set off to meet the trio that Jodi was missing so surely would have been looking for her on his way to meet them? And as you've said - why retrace the route and not look elsewhere?

[Baz]

Agreed.

Of course someone's again going to post that Mia wasn't in 'tracker mode' at this point 

Luke knew before he set off to meet the trio that Jodi was missing so surely would have been looking for her on his way to meet them? And as you've said - why retrace the route and not look elsewhere?

It wasn't his idea to recheck the way he had come from.

[Stephanie]

maybe because he was fourteen going into the pitch black on a secluded woodland path

A torch wouldn't have made much of a difference. He would still be walking into a pitch black secluded woodland path. The torch would only have allowed him to just about see where he was going. It wasn't like it was some kind of industrial strength light.

[John]

...or was it a case of Mia did react when Mitchell passed near to the body the first time but knowing what he did he ignored her as finding the body on his own would have put him firmly in the frame from the off?

[John]

It wasn't his idea to recheck the way he had come from.

Alice obviously didn't trust him then...I wonder why?

[Stephanie]

Alice obviously didn't trust him then...I wonder why?

Speaking from her home in Dalkeith, near where Jodi’s body was found, Alice Walker said: “It doesn’t prove anything. He is a lying, cheating murderer. He’s scum It makes me very angry”.

Read more: http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/murder-victim-jodi-jones-gran-hits-out-at-killer-luke-mitchell-s-lie-detector-test-video-1-2735193#ixzz3ratRjCUL

[Stephanie]

my main qustion what was the search party there for a girls an hour late why go searching for her in a dark wood on the imfortion they had it was a strange thing to do.

i mean you would only look in the wood if you knew that ws the last place they had been at the time they had no way of knowing that.


but they seem convinced she is in the woods even though they havent checked more obvios places.

Why was it a strange thing to do? Think your post says more about you and what you'd do, or not do, as the case maybe. . 

[John]

my main qustion what was the search party there for a girls an hour late why go searching for her in a dark wood on the imfortion they had it was a strange thing to do.

Actually she was missing for five hours.  She set off around 5pm to meet Mitchell and it wasn't until after 10pm that they found her.

The difficulty for those who advocate on behalf of Mitchell is that there isn't the slightest bit of evidence to support their claims but much to condemn him including...

• The missing hour after school
• The false alibi shattered by his own brother
• Being seen near the murder scene by passing motorist and passenger
• The circumstances relating to the finding of the body
• The mystery of the vanishing jacket
• Past behaviour

[John]

This is one of the reasons the  Luke's website had ot be taken down - I no longer have access to the papers so, if I don't have notes about something, I can't post sources, allowing people to do exactly as Lithium has done here.

Oh come off it Sandra!    We all know why you and Billy Middleton had to remove the Luke Mitchell forum from the WAPO website and it had little to do with any original documents since you never posted any on the website in any event.  How many times did you respond to questions on the forum by saying you had to check the files etc.. ??