A Long Walk to Justice

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He himself describes the charge as "sexual abuse". I'm unclear why. As far as I know the charges were of sexual assault. To my mind sexual abuse indicates a more long term situation. A freudian slip, perhaps?. Maybe this was closer to the truth of what was happening in Billy and Kareen's relationship. It certainly wasn’t a copycat murder. The similarities between the two murders were, according to Professor A Busuttil, “aside from the fact that they were both apparently sexually motivated homicides of young women with post-mortem mutilations of the body with a sharp instrument” there were, “No forensically significant similarities between the injury patterns in these two victims” However, following the trial Kareen's solicitor did take a statement from her counsellor. That is why Billy never fought to see the kids. His lies would be exposed before his family and he couldn't let that happen. Professor Anthony Busuttil, the pathologist who examined Jodi’s body, gave evidence that while not identical, there was some similarity between the location and the injuries inflicted on Jodi and those on the actress. Lorraine Fleming described the man she witnessed at Newbattle Road, approximately two miles away, at 5:45 p.m. – looking like he was “up to no good”, who looked “very much like Luke Mitchell”, and had a “Liam Gallagher hairstyle”.

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It’s always puzzled me, how three independent people can make the same statement to the police on the night of the murder, and a few weeks later they are allowed by the police to change their statements to suit Alan Dobbie’s narrative.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/ Jodi was not sexually assaulted in any way. Mitchell’s defence team claimed DNA in the condom belonged to another man – James Falconer – but during an appeal hearing in 2008 Donald Findlay QC, who was Mitchell’s lawyer, told the judges he was dropping any further claims about James, who had already been ruled out of any involvement by detectives investigating the case 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. Alan Turnbull didn’t win his case, Donald lost it. Alan Turnbull must have asked himself when he was driving home in his car, I’m baffled…what happened?, how in the hell did I win that?.

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In the series Luke Mitchell told investigators, “I was the local weirdo, it was easy to put it on me,” and how DS Craig Dobbie and others, had said during the interrogation to, “confess you little bastard”. 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. The initial reaction from some in the media was not to question the facts of what had been claimed, but to attempt to discredit the two investigating former detectives asked to investigate the murder of Jodi Jones. Shoot the messenger rather than listening because the message highlighted the failings of police and agents of the media. The ‘skunting knife’ was a pen knife, with a blade less than 50mm. Records show the knife was handed in to the police by Luke Mitchell’s solicitor, Nigel Beaumont, who gave a statement confirming that.

Other detractors came out in force claiming the test was nothing more than a “crass publicity stunt.” An accusation, in my opinion, that was classic projection because that is what the whole case against Luke Mitchell was – “crass publicity” peddled by DS Craig Dobbie’s friends in the media. Why didn’t Joseph Jones and Alan Ovens, who were less than a three-minute walk away from Roan’s Dyke Path, where the search party started, offer to assist? Instead, they permitted an old woman and a young girl go out at night into woods/fields to look for Jodi. That doesn’t seem right.

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When he was later questioned, he mentioned a distinctive hair clasp which was not readily visible on Jodi’s body and his description of her clothing implied he had seen her much later than just at school as he had claimed.Two months later, within Shotts’s prison, Luke Mitchell took the first ever polygraph test conducted inside a prison, and in similar fashion was not made aware of the questions that were going to be asked. I do feel incredibly angry that Billy Middleton feels that he has the right to publish on the internet whatever he wants without fear of retribution. Psychopathic Killer Simon Hall’s extremely cold, inconsiderate and manipulative side wasn’t called out a single time