A Long Walk to Justice

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From the outset of this case, if a statement from a witness did not suit or fit in with the police narrative, the police kept going back to the witnesses until they got the statement they needed.

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She was unable to identify the female whom she only saw from the back, but gave a description of someone with black, shoulder length hair, which seemed to contained like a ponytail, wearing a navy-blue jumper with a hood and a pair of lighter trousers, which she took to be a pair of jeans. The Crown considered the case closed, as they do in all miscarriages of justice cases, and refused access to evidence. When criminologist, Dr Sandra Lean, started to ask questions about the case as early as 2004, she was spat on in the street, received threats of violence, had bullying men turn up at her home making threats on her life, and all was accepted and permitted by Dalkeith Police. With the start of the trial of former President of Chad Hissène Habré, the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) is writing a new chapter in the history of international criminal justice.

Police just accepted that a man walked 500 yards or more from his home to go into the woods to have a “clean wank”.

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The attack on Jodi as she walked to Luke’s from her home in Easthouses was not planned or premeditated. More importantly, they were not made aware of Mark Kane, who was in his early twenties and matched the age and description Ms Bryson gave under oath. In the reporter’s submissions she mentions no other suspects, except Mark Kane, and claims “most” suspects mentioned in the TV documentary were questioned extensively. Alan Turnbull must have asked himself when he was driving home in his car, I’m baffled…what happened?Yet initially, on the 6th July 2003, the police were claiming “The murder team believe there is a growing body of evidence to suggest she {Jodi} interrupted a flasher, peeping tom or someone else committing a sex act. I will go into that in future articles but for now here is the extract from Mr Forbes' book which covers the 10 'facts' article put out by Jane Hamilton for The Daily Record in 2021. In an interview with a journalist the word “scrunchie” was written down and, in giving evidence, the journalist said that would not be a word he would use to describe a hair clasp so Luke Mitchell must have used that word. The prosecution claimed that had Jodi left the house and proceeded directly to the path, that she would have been there at the time of this sighting and asked the jury to accept that this was a sighting of Jodi and Mitchell.

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I have no doubt whatsoever that if he had suspicions about Luke or his mother’s test he would have spoken out. First to imply that this pocketknife could have been the murder weapon is not only preposterous but absolutely shocking and disrespectful to Jodi Jones and the nature of the murder. Details of a “female relative” of the suspect or suspects, who was thought to have burned clothes and was questioned about the fire at the Reed Drive house, were never disclosed to Luke Mitchell’s defence team.

Shane later admitted on the stand he had discussed his earlier statement with his mother before telling police Mitchell had been at home. Instead, Terry Mullins describes Luke Mitchell as a “victim” and stands by that statement and the results of the mother and son’s tests completely. The EAC is mandated to prosecute the person(s) most responsible for international crimes committed in Chad between June 7, 1982 and December 1, 1990. However, it does give an example of how falsehoods were fed to the public throughout the entire investigation. Mitchell discovered Jodi’s body, which was hidden behind a wall on the path, after claiming his dog led him to the scent, Family members with him said he appeared to know where the body was.