Post by Vinny on Sept 24, 2023 12:26:44 GMT
Private Eye seems to think so.
www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1605/in-the-back
Have a read of this and see what you think.
The man, now 34, is accused of murdering his girlfriend Jodi Jones, when he and she were 14.
This bit is particularly interesting:
At the time I believed him to be guilty.
Now I am not so sure.
www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1605/in-the-back
Have a read of this and see what you think.
The man, now 34, is accused of murdering his girlfriend Jodi Jones, when he and she were 14.
This bit is particularly interesting:
The reality was that Mitchell was seen near his home about 50 minutes after Jodi was said to have been tied up, assaulted and killed.
As a 2021 Channel 5 documentary illustrated, that would make it all but impossible for him to have been the killer. He could not have returned home in broad daylight, unseen and covered in blood, and disposed of all incriminating evidence.
Dishing the dirt
Two former detectives, who spent a year re-investigating the crime, said that when examined that night he had unwashed hair and mud under his fingernails, which proved he had not showered. Crucially, they identified other "stronger suspects", three of whom were at or near the scene at the time. But they were never treated as such by the police.
After the documentary was screened, Forbes applied for access to exhibits and material gathered in the case in order to carry out new forensic tests, only to learn the police were in the process of destroying it. The destruction was halted by the Lord Advocate's office.
All that remains are 300 scrapings and swabs, including ten taken from Jodi's body containing semen deposits, which incredibly were never tested for DNA at the time.
As a 2021 Channel 5 documentary illustrated, that would make it all but impossible for him to have been the killer. He could not have returned home in broad daylight, unseen and covered in blood, and disposed of all incriminating evidence.
Dishing the dirt
Two former detectives, who spent a year re-investigating the crime, said that when examined that night he had unwashed hair and mud under his fingernails, which proved he had not showered. Crucially, they identified other "stronger suspects", three of whom were at or near the scene at the time. But they were never treated as such by the police.
After the documentary was screened, Forbes applied for access to exhibits and material gathered in the case in order to carry out new forensic tests, only to learn the police were in the process of destroying it. The destruction was halted by the Lord Advocate's office.
All that remains are 300 scrapings and swabs, including ten taken from Jodi's body containing semen deposits, which incredibly were never tested for DNA at the time.
Now I am not so sure.