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. Reading their first statements, in comparison to their latter ones, you could be forgiven for thinking that the statements were from different people. As stated earlier, no one trashes your name more than someone who is afraid you will tell the truth. Nevertheless, DS Craig Dobbie told the press, after Luke was convicted, “…information which gave detectives cause for suspicion concerned the wood burning stove in the Mitchell’s back garden” He went on to say that witnesses had made reference to a “long parka jacket. They (Craig Sherlock Dobbie) were just waiting for the forensic results, once those forensic (blood spatter) results come through, they (which again, really means he) will prove to all his friends and colleagues once and for all, that Luke was their man (actually their boy).

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Blagging a story is easy, proving you are right is the hard part, show the people the documents and prove you are right. 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. He then went back to the break in the wall {V} and climbed over and walked in the direction the dog had indicated.I have, until now, chosen to ignore the personal comments posted here, on the grounds that they are of no bearing on the discussions at hand. They give insight into who is and isn’t being truthful and, if coupled with the evidence in the case, both Luke Mitchell and his mother were more than happy to take the test. Almost three years after Jodi’s murder, the DNA found inside the condom was identified as James Falconer’s.

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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.This gives a child, Luke Mitchell, 50 minutes to argue with his girlfriend, force her over a wall, murder her in a frenzied attack, strip her, mutilate her body, get home, change all his clothing, coat included, clean up without leaving so much as a trace of such a brutal murder, and be back on the Newbattle Road for Ms Walsh and Ms Fleming to see. 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 publication’s printed reaction to Murder in a Small Town stated, “Many – including senior police officers and Jodi’s family – are angry that the TV documentary failed to point out key facts. This makes them as one of the best breeds overall for their sense of smell, being able to detect scents over a mile away on land, up to 40 feet underground and in 80 feet of water!