A Long Walk to Justice

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But the reporter parrots Dalkeith CID’s first impression of Luke Mitchell sometime later at Newbattle school: “He also showed no emotion at the horrifying sight.” This was a Dalkeith CID officer’s hunch and is the sole ‘evidence’ against Luke Mitchell yet spun as ‘facts’. In 2021, Channel 5 aired Murder in a Small Town, a two-part series on the murder of Jodi Jones. Professor Alan Jamieson and his staff from the Forensic Institute in Glasgow, along with two former police detectives, John Sallens and Michael Neill, with over fifty years of detective experience including crime scene management, were asked to investigate the murder of Jodi Jones and to examine if the original investigation could have been done differently. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the annual Pro Bono Week event, from 1-5 November, which offers an opportunity to recognise and support the voluntary contribution made by the legal profession across the UK in giving free and much needed legal assistance to those in need: see probonoweek.org.uk/ But there was something different on the night of the 30th of June 2003. Different enough for her sister Janine, her boyfriend Stephen Kelly, and the head of the family, Alice Walker, to leave Mayfield and walk approximately two miles to meet Luke Mitchell to search for Jodi.

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The facts are the police had a knife taken in an early search, then found a pouch without a knife months later, and Luke Mitchell’s lawyer handed the second knife into the police.

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Records show that Mark Kane told his close friends a lie, when he said he had been questioned by police as “he had been seen running on Newbattle Road”…a man with a parka coat, with a similar hair style to Luke Mitchell seen on the road where Fleming and Walsh claimed to have seen Luke Mitchell…and who had never been spoken to by police.

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Anyone reading this with any knowledge of criminal justice, forensics, or DNA evidence, would laugh at the above statement had the case not been so serious. This is media spin. 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.Up until the 16th of July , the police (Really Craig Dobbie, because he’s running this circus) were one hundred percent convinced that Luke Mitchell was the perpetrator. And the forensic results were going to prove it. After reading the charges, the judges began to call witnesses to the stand. The first witnesses gave contextual evidence—the historical, social, political, economic, and cultural situation of Chad before and during the Habré regime. These witnesses also outlined the psychological profile of the defendant and described his political career from his first struggles to his fall in December 1990. The EAC judges also called expert witnesses to the stand. These mainly comprised forensic pathologists, ballistics experts, statisticians, and legal experts. The EAC judges then began to hear from direct and indirect victims. These witnesses gave testimony about the specific crimes they experienced or witnessed. Nevertheless, on the 19th of July police, through the media, said “Man at Centre of Jodi Appeal Found” For reasons only known to themselves the police never interviewed either myself or Kareen's counsellor whom she was seeing regarding unresolved issues from her childhood and also the difficulties she was experiencing within her own relationship with Billy. She told her counsellor everything. Thanks. I appreciate that. Even if just one person takes the time to read an article it makes it worthwhile for me. No point keeping information to myself if others may be able to use it and expand on it better than I can.

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The report was significant regarding the “sexual element of the crime.” Professor Anthony Busuttil described Jodi’s murder: “a sexually motivated homicide of a young woman.” I’m just surprised he didn’t PLANT evidence somewhere in a desperate attempt to help prove it was Luke. According to John Ferris, Ms Bryson’s brother-in-law, Mark “Bill” Bryson, was in Alice Walker’s home on the morning of the 1st of July and, in discussing the murder, told them how his brother, not Ms Bryson, had seen a youth with “long messy hair, wearing army clothes and big boots” at the Easthouses end of Roan’s Dyke Path. This conversation turned to Luke Mitchell, as he had previously been in the army cadets and the person claimed to have been seen was alleged to be wearing army style clothes. Bill then left Alice Walker’s home to visit his brother and Andrina Bryson.While the vast majority of people were, at the very least, questioning the conviction of Luke Mitchell, even the ones who believed he was guilty, the ones who are afraid of the truth came out in defence and promotion of themselves, establishing what many had known all along – that the police and certain members of the media thought themselves above criticism or questioning. Scott Forbes has worked on his case and been involved with appeals , I know the usual reaction is to character assignate anybody that speaks up for Mr Mitchell Dave but he is taking a huge gamble if he is making it up he will be sued , right . But many - including senior police officers and Jodi’s family - are angry that the TV documentary failed to point out key facts. Luke Mitchell told him straight out, “It wasn’t us”, although regardless of the fact that Reed Drive/Newtongrange was approximately a mile away from Newbattle Abbey Crescent where the Mitchell’s lived, by the time it got to court it was claimed it WAS them who burned the clothes.

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Andrina Bryson was not an independent witness. She and her family were friends with the Jones and Walker families. She claimed she did not know the Jones family. And we explain the key evidence that convinced a jury - beyond all reasonable doubt - that Luke Mitchell killed Jodi Jones. Investigating the unlawful Scottish Government procedure into allegations against the Former First Minister of Scotland The Edinburgh leg of Live 8 follows ten other concerts in cities including London, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin, Johannesburg, Rome and Moscow on Saturday (July 2).The Habré trial has proceeded satisfactorily to date. There have been no serious breaches of fair trial rights and the court-appointed lawyers are defending the accused competently and ensuring the adversarial nature of proceedings. The simple answer as to why the jury didn’t believe Luke’s alibi is that the jury from Edinburgh had been fed lies, spin, and trash talk, such as sexual relationships with his mother, and that he was “evil”, from as early as the 4th of July 2003. My fertile mind is beginning to wonder if Findlay was in league with the opposition. I’m not joking, this isn’t funny, a young man got life in prison on nonsense evidence like this.