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Alleged Miscarriages of Justice => Luke Mitchell and the murder of his teenage girfriend Jodi Jones on 30 June 2003. => Topic started by: faithlilly on April 13, 2023, 09:38:47 AM
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PROFESSOR DAVID WILSON
Luke Mitchell should never have been charged, let alone convicted
12 hrs ago
CRIME
By David Wilson
Professor of Criminology
I’ve never needed to be convinced that miscarriages of justice happen in Scotland.
I even wrote a book - Signs of Murder - about one such miscarriage that occurred after the murder of a young woman called Margaret McLaughlin in Carluke in July 1973. In that case the police “fitted up” a local man called George Beattie, who was a bit “soft”, enjoyed train spotting as a hobby and had a below average IQ. During his fourth police interview George would go on to give what I described as a “pseudo-confession”, in which he claimed that Margaret had been stabbed by men wearing tall hats with mirrors on them, and that he had been forced
In Signs of Murder I even recount tracking down the person I believe to have been more likely to have been Margaret’s killer and report a tense exchange that I had with him on his doorstep. He wasn’t pleased.
The publication of the book led to questions being asked in the Scottish parliament and raising hopes that George, at long last, might get exonerated for a crime that he most certainly did not commit.
However, slowly and silently, the Scottish judicial system clearly decided that George had served his sentence and so what was the point of re-opening old wounds and owning up to a collective failure of having got Margaret’s murder investigation and then George’s criminal prosecution so disastrously wrong.
I knew about Margaret’s murder because it happened in the town where I once lived, and two of my sisters still call Carluke home. I left to go to university and so all of my career has been in England. I really don’t know too much about Scottish cases – unless they come to be featured in Crime Files, which I present for BBC Scotland, or they have something about them which means they get covered south of the border. Crime reporting still tends to be regional, rather than national and even the story of “Bible John” is barely known in England.
However, at a public talk that I gave last December I was asked a question about Luke Mitchell, who had been convicted in 2005 for the murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones, after her body had been found in woodland near Dalkeith in Midlothian in 2003. I can’t remember my exact reply, but I said that I knew the case was controversial and that it generated heated debate as Luke has never admitted his guilt even after nearly 20 years in prison, although Jodi’s family remain convinced that he’s the culprit. I had also become more aware of the case, I said, because I had viewed some of a two-part documentary on Channel 5 called Murder in a Small Town. However, such was the pressure of work, I hadn’t managed to watch the second episode.
Over the last few months, prompted by several emails I have at last been able to devote time to look more fully at Luke Mitchell’s case, and what I’ve seen gives me cause for concern. What happened to Luke almost echoes all the mistakes that took place within the investigation, trial and conviction of George Beattie and so my fear is that Jodi’s killer has never been caught and punished at all.
It took me two years to research and write Signs of Murder and even then I wasn’t privy to all of the materials that would normally have been made available to me if I had been conducting an official investigation. The same holds true for what I’ve been able to read and analyse about Jodi’s murder, and nor have I devoted two years to come to a conclusion. However, I have been able to: read transcripts from Luke’s trial; consult various appeals that were made on his behalf; looked at a range of newspaper commentary (some of which supported his conviction); watched Murder in a Small Town and also part of the Trials that Shocked Scotland series; listened to a podcast about the case – which also devoted most of an episode to Luke Mitchell speaking from prison (and he clearly is an intelligent man); and delved into some social media – which I can assure you is not for the faint-hearted.
So this range of materials can hardly be described as “definitive”. Nor have I been able to look at any surviving forensic evidence – there was none in George’s case – and, if press reports are to be believed, in the wake of the screening of the Channel 5 documentary, all of this was going to be destroyed in Luke’s case, until his solicitors stepped in to prevent its destruction.
However, even accepting that I could not access all of the materials I would have wanted, there is literally nothing – nothing - I could uncover that warranted Luke even being charged with Jodi’s murder, never mind being sent to trial. Instead there seemed to be a concerted press campaign to damage his character which served to support the police’s actions, and in much the same way that George’s reputation got tarnished by his pseudo-confession – he’s alluding to the pop group Slade with his reference to men wearing tall hats with mirrors on them – Luke gets similar treatment but this time it’s the American goth-rocker Marilyn Manson that’s harnessed to do the damage. There is no forensic evidence whatsoever to connect Luke to Jodi’s murder, despite the horrifying way in which she was killed. As with George, there were no “signs of murder” on his person, and nor is it true that his clothing was destroyed by his mother after the event. Witness testimony is weak, inconsistent and more than likely wrong, and about the only thing that I could see that needed to be investigated more fully was his part in the initial discovery of Jodi’s body. However, this was not just a case of circumstantial evidence leading to a conviction, but one of literally no evidence at all.
Nothing has happened as far as George Beattie’s miscarriage is concerned and my fear is that nothing will happen about Luke Mitchell’s either. The Scottish Criminal Justice System never seems keen to admit to its mistakes but, as I have always argued, a judicial system cannot call itself mature and civilised unless it’s prepared to hold its hands up and admit when it gets things wrong.
And that’s what they did in Luke Mitchell’s case – it got things wrong, and so for me Jodi’s killer is still to be brought to justice.
Professor David Wilson is emeritus professor of criminology at Birmingham City University
More about David Wilson here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilson_(criminologist)
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The great man has spoken. Much like the other "leading criminologist" concerned with this closed case, it's just an opinion and won't do anything legally to get the killer out of jail. Might sell some tickets for his book tour though to keep him in silk handkerchiefs.
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The great man has spoken. Much like the other "leading criminologist" concerned with this closed case, it's just an opinion and won't do anything legally to get the killer out of jail. Might sell some tickets for his book tour though to keep him in silk handkerchiefs.
I thought that you were a fan.
“ Even Prof. David Wilson isn't quite so high fallutin' and he is employed by a University”
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DROPPING SOON - Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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https://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/13/killer-luke-mitchell-could-david-wilson-suffer-from-hybristophilia-part-176/
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I thought that you were a fan.
“ Even Prof. David Wilson isn't quite so high fallutin' and he is employed by a University”
To damn with faint praise perhaps. He is my second least favourite criminilogist but again his opinion won't help LM.
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To damn with faint praise perhaps. He is my second least favourite criminilogist but again his opinion won't help LM.
No one’s opinion will so it’s rather a moot point. What Professor Wilson speaking out does do is bring many years of professional experience of criminality and criminals to the debate. Chris Mullins speaking out against the convictions of the Birmingham Six or Paul Foot likewise for the Bridgewater Three progressed the men’s cases, at first, not a millimetre forward but what it did do was bring the deficiencies in the cases to the public’s notice and with it, eventually, an unsustainable pressure for justice that the authorities couldn’t ignore.
I once met Michael Hickey’s mum, Anne Whelan, at a conference run by Liberty. She was a courageous women, calm and measured, who never gave up fighting for her son even when the world called him ‘monster’. She, but more importantly, her son was vindicated in the end. I hope Corrine Mitchell lives long enough to see her son freed too.
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No one’s opinion will so it’s rather a moot point. What Professor Wilson speaking out does do is bring many years of professional experience of criminality and criminals to the debate. Chris Mullins speaking out against the convictions of the Birmingham Six or Paul Foot likewise for the Bridgewater Three progressed the men’s cases, at first, not a millimetre forward but what it did do was bring the deficiencies in the cases to the public’s notice and with it, eventually, an unsustainable pressure for justice that the authorities couldn’t ignore.
I once met Michael Hickey’s mum, Anne Whelan, at a conference run by Liberty. She was a courageous women, calm and measured, who never gave up fighting for her son even when the world called him ‘monster’. She, but more importantly, her son was vindicated in the end. I hope Corrine Mitchell lives long enough to see her son freed too.
Have you actually read about the numerous crimes of Michael Hickey? He was a monster! A vile specimen that deserved to be locked up for a very long time.
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Have you actually read about the numerous crimes of Michael Hickey? He was a monster! A vile specimen that deserved to be locked up for a very long time.
David Wilson did a TV show whereby he/and the producers/editors attempted to pretend convicted killer Bert Spencer was responsible for the so called ‘Bridgewater fours’ murder of Carl Bridgewater
Michael Hickey (who confessed to Carl Bridgewater’s murder) should never have been released from prison!
And how he only got a suspended prison sentence with a murder conviction already under his belt - was a joke
Http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/carl-bridgewater-michael-hickey-robbery-15350011
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David Wilson did a TV show whereby he/and the producers/editors attempted to pretend convicted killer Bert Spencer was responsible for the so called ‘Bridgewater fours’ murder of Carl Bridgewater
Michael Hickey (who confessed to Carl Bridgewater’s murder) should never have been released from prison!
And how he only got a suspended prison sentence with a murder conviction already under his belt - was a joke
Http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/carl-bridgewater-michael-hickey-robbery-15350011
You do understand that his murder conviction was quashed, don’t you?
Further Michael Hickey did not confess to the murder. Vincent, his cousin, implicated him and another man, Pat Molloy, who also confessed. Both confession were later withdrawn.
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https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/tv-crime-expert-claims-jodi-26683191
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You do understand that his murder conviction was quashed, don’t you?
Further Michael Hickey did not confess to the murder. Vincent, his cousin, implicated him and another man, Pat Molloy, who also confessed. Both confession were later withdrawn.
Really? Sounds familiar. If only Leonor Cipriano had had such a corageous, calm and measured mother as this little angel’s perhaps she too could have had her sentence quashed, especially as there was no forensic evidence of her involvement in any crime.
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DAVID WILSON
However, I have been able to: read transcripts from Luke’s trial
What transcripts?
Has David Wilson told a bare faced lie here?
Or did Sandra Lean email him a couple of transcripts?
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DAVID WILSON
what I described as a “pseudo-confession”, in which he claimed that Margaret had been stabbed by men wearing tall hats with mirrors on them, and that he had been forced
Did anyone watch Peter Hill’s nonsense on the ‘men wearing tall hats with mirrors on them’
*&^^&
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DAVID WILSON
It took me two years to research and write Signs of Murder and even then I wasn’t privy to all of the materials that would normally have been made available to me if I had been conducting an official investigation
He sounds like Sandra Lean or vice versa
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DAVID WILSON
I really don’t know too much about Scottish cases – unless they come to be featured in Crime Files
He most dedinately knew about Jodi Jones killers case/campaign in 2021
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DAVID WILSON
However, I have been able to: read transcripts from Luke’s trial;
What transcripts?
Has David Wilson told a bare faced lie here?
Or did Sandra Lean email him a couple of transcripts?
I’m of the opinion she didn’t
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What transcripts?
Has David Wilson told a bare faced lie here?
Or did Sandra Lean email him a couple of transcripts?
I’m sure he has his sources.
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I’m sure he has his sources.
He might attempt to give that impression but it’s highly unlikely
Unless Sandra Lean emailed him some of what she has
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DROPPING SOON..
Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/13/killer-luke-mitchell-could-david-wilson-suffer-from-hybristophilia-part-176/
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What a fraud David Wilson is
He’s fooled a lot of people, hasn’t he….from the Prison Service to Birmingham University. He was the youngest prison governor in the country, has advised many police forces and is a former Chair of the Commission on English Prisons…but he doesn’t fool you does he, the woman who couldn’t spot a murderer when she was actually married to him.
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He most dedinately knew about Jodi Jones killers case/campaign in 2021
‘Too much’…not anything.
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DAVID WILSON
However, slowly and silently, the Scottish judicial system clearly decided that George had served his sentence and so what was the point of re-opening old wounds and owning up to a collective failure of having got Margaret’s murder investigation and then George’s criminal prosecution so disastrously wrong.
This case/campaign has all the hallmarks of the innocence fraud phenomenon NOT the ‘miscarriage of justice’ phenomenon
And why it was so predictable that David Wilson would eventually come out in support of Jodi Jones sadistic killer
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‘Too much’…not anything.
I know what he wrote
I also know he’s another gaslighter & psychological manipulator
IMO
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I know what he wrote
I also know he’s another gaslighter & psychological manipulator
I’d be careful if I was you. I hear he’s quite litigious.
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DAVID WILSON
until his solicitors
Who are these solicitors ?
Only one solicitor would be required to instruct Roddy Dunlop
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I’d be careful if I was you. I hear he’s quite litigious.
Lol
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DAVID WILSON
Nothing has happened as far as George Beattie’s miscarriage is concerned
Because , IMO, it’s yet another example of the innocence fraud phenomenon
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His desperation is palpable
How anyone takes this creepy and fraudulent moron seriously is beyond me
But they do….you…not so much.
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I also don’t view David Wilson to be a ‘proper’ criminologist
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I also don’t view David Wilson to be a ‘proper’ criminologist
I don’t think anyone cares.
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I don’t think anyone cares.
People should care
Especially girls/women
The man is dangerous
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https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/jodi-jones-killer-still-at-large-and-luke-mitchell-wrongly-convicted-of-her-murder-says-tv-crime-expert-4103239
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https://youtu.be/aFli-cfAjf4
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https://youtu.be/sQ0W4ZT5ju4
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I also don’t view David Wilson to be a ‘proper’ criminologist
Given his professional background I think that’s a very strange thing to say. You don’t have to agree with his view on Luke but to say you don’t think he’s a proper criminologist seems crazy. What qualifications and experience in your view would he need to become a proper criminologist. Also you said in a previous post you thought he suffered from Hybristophilia, where do you get this from. You appear to be trying to discredit ANYONE who dares support Luke or speak out for him in anyway. Good luck trying to discredit prof Wilson, I think you have your work cut out there 🤣 he is certainly one person the public will listen too and I for one am very happy a highly respected and well known person like him is taking an interest and getting more people to take another look at this case. Maybe you should too.
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He most dedinately knew about Jodi Jones killers case/campaign in 2021
He certainly did. One of LM's defenders wrote to him in 2021 asking him to get involved and he replied that "he doesn't share their concerns about the case". Strange that he's changed his mind but he does love the sound of his own voice and being in the public eye.
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He certainly did. One of LM's defenders wrote to him in 2021 asking him to get involved and he replied that "he doesn't share their concerns about the case". Strange that he's changed his mind but he does love the sound of his own voice and being in the public eye.
I wrote to him in 2019, seems he was aware but said he had never studied the case. So glad he is taking some notice now.
His Reply in 2019
Thank you for your e mail and for your kind comments. Thank you also for sharing with me your views about this case. However, I have never studied the case and therefore can offer no opinion.
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He certainly did. One of LM's defenders wrote to him in 2021 asking him to get involved and he replied that "he doesn't share their concerns about the case". Strange that he's changed his mind but he does love the sound of his own voice and being in the public eye.
Aren’t people allowed to change their minds? It’s obvious what he said about the case previously that he knew very little about it.
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He certainly did. One of LM's defenders wrote to him in 2021 asking him to get involved and he replied that "he doesn't share their concerns about the case". Strange that he's changed his mind but he does love the sound of his own voice and being in the public eye.
Not ‘strange’ given he’s, IMO, also up to his eyeballs in innocence fraud
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proper criminologist
What’s your interpretation of a criminologist ?
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Also you said in a previous post you thought he suffered from Hybristophilia
Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/13/killer-luke-mitchell-could-david-wilson-suffer-from-hybristophilia-part-176/
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I wrote to him in 2019, seems he was aware but said he had never studied the case. So glad he is taking some notice now.
His Reply in 2019
Thank you for your e mail and for your kind comments. Thank you also for sharing with me your views about this case. However, I have never studied the case and therefore can offer no opinion.
Didn’t you also tweet to him in 2012?
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Didn’t you also tweet to him in 2012?
No I’m not on twitter
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I know what he wrote
I also know he’s another gaslighter & psychological manipulator
IMO
Have you been threatened with legal action John ?
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Will Mr Wilson be joining the cult at their protest on the 13th in Edinburgh? Ms Lean is broadcasting tonight to mark the 19th anniversary since LM was taken. Here's to another 19 more years the child killer is kept locked up.
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Ms Lean is broadcasting tonight
Does she sound desperate to you?
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Does she sound desperate to you?
Yes, very. The amateur dramatics and grinning were off the scale and I could only watch a few minutes. Still, LM supporters claim the tide is turning and "they" are running scared.
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David Wilson did a TV show whereby he/and the producers/editors attempted to pretend convicted killer Bert Spencer was responsible for the so called ‘Bridgewater fours’ murder of Carl Bridgewater
Michael Hickey (who confessed to Carl Bridgewater’s murder) should never have been released from prison!
And how he only got a suspended prison sentence with a murder conviction already under his belt - was a joke
Http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/carl-bridgewater-michael-hickey-robbery-15350011
Oh Nicholas , Luke could be proven innocent and you would still say guilty. *%87
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I also don’t view David Wilson to be a ‘proper’ criminologist
What is a proper Criminologist in your opinion? He is qualified and teaches the subject. What more does he require in YOUR opinion?
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Yes, very. The amateur dramatics and grinning were off the scale and I could only watch a few minutes. Still, LM supporters claim the tide is turning and "they" are running scared.
I only heard the am-dram and also only listened to a few minutes
She sounds extra desperate
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Oh Nicholas , Luke could be proven innocent and you would still say guilty. *%87
Maybe because he IS guilty. After almost 20 years the best LM's defenders can say, after blaming various innocent others, is the brother lured her into the woods, killed her and carried her to the V break then escaped soaked in blood on the back of a clapped out moped without being seen? I often think if LM was spotted on CCTV with a bloodied knife his supporters would blame the Daily Record.
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What is a proper Criminologist in your opinion? He is qualified and teaches the subject. What more does he require in YOUR opinion?
This is worth a listen
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INNOCENCE FRAUD With ROBERTA GLASS (Part 1)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/14/innocence-fraud-with-roberta-glass-part-1/
Part 2 ~ Dropping soon..
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David Wilson did a TV show whereby he/and the producers/editors attempted to pretend convicted killer Bert Spencer was responsible for the so called ‘Bridgewater fours’ murder of Carl Bridgewater
Michael Hickey (who confessed to Carl Bridgewater’s murder) should never have been released from prison!
And how he only got a suspended prison sentence with a murder conviction already under his belt - was a joke
Http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/carl-bridgewater-michael-hickey-robbery-15350011
Is your name Stephanie Hall ???? @)(++(* (ty6e[ oops
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This is worth a listen
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Part 2 ~ Dropping soon..
But what is YOUR answer? *%87
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What’s your interpretation of a criminologist ?
In short someone who studied criminals and crime. Or someone like Sandra and Professor David Wilson. You didn’t answer what qualifications and experience in your view would Prof Wilson need to become a ‘proper’ criminologist. I think his professional background speaks for itself.
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In short someone who studied criminals and crime. Or someone like Sandra and Professor David Wilson. You didn’t answer what qualifications and experience in your view would Prof Wilson need to become a ‘proper’ criminologist. I think his professional background speaks for itself.
Did no one who investigated the case and who brought LM to justice have any professional qualifications or experience of criminology then?
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What is a proper Criminologist in your opinion? He is qualified and teaches the subject. What more does he require in YOUR opinion?
proper
/ˈprɒpə/
denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine.
I don’t get a ‘genuine’ vibe off of David Wilson
Dropping soon
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Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/13/killer-luke-mitchell-could-david-wilson-suffer-from-hybristophilia-part-176/
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If any one has a few hours to waste CH4 "In the footsteps of killers", Wilson along with Emelia Fox look at old cases,
gives an insight imo into the workings of Wilson, its hard work so stock up on snacks.
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Did no one who investigated the case and who brought LM to justice have any professional qualifications or experience of criminology then?
I did not say they didn’t. I have no idea what qualifications those who investigate the case had or if a criminologist was involved or not. I was asked what the definition of a criminologist was in my mind.
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proper
/ˈprɒpə/
denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine.
I don’t get a ‘genuine’ vibe off of David Wilson
Dropping soon
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Fair enough I get what you mean, I personally think he seems very qualified and I respect alot of the work he has done and that’s why I wrote to him in 2019. It was not to ask him to look into the case or anything like that it was just to ask if he had heard of the case and what his opinion on Luke was, if he thought Luke was guilty or not as I respect his opinion. So I’m glad he had a chance to take a look into it a bit and write an article on it.
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I did not say they didn’t. I have no idea what qualifications those who investigate the case had or if a criminologist was involved or not. I was asked what the definition of a criminologist was in my mind.
Well we certainly know that the FBI Criminal Behavioural Unit looked at whether Luke could be the killer at the behest of the investigating police force. You really don’t get much more knowledgeable in aspects of criminal behaviour than them. Lothian and Borders police buried the report because it was favourable to Luke so it appears that they were going to plough ahead with their blinkered investigation no matter what professional advice they got.
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Maybe because he IS guilty. After almost 20 years the best LM's defenders can say, after blaming various innocent others, is the brother lured her into the woods, killed her and carried her to the V break then escaped soaked in blood on the back of a clapped out moped without being seen? I often think if LM was spotted on CCTV with a bloodied knife his supporters would blame the Daily Record.
Do you think those who believe that Luke is innocent of Jodi’s murder are obliged to put forward another suspect to make their opinion valid? Shouldn’t the lack of evidence be more important?
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If any one has a few hours to waste CH4 "In the footsteps of killers", Wilson along with Emelia Fox look at old cases,
gives an insight imo into the workings of Wilson, its hard work so stock up on snacks.
That is a truly dreadful, phony programme.
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proper
/ˈprɒpə/
denoting something that is truly what it is said or regarded to be; genuine.
I don’t get a ‘genuine’ vibe off of David Wilson
Dropping soon
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Vibe? You are denouncing his vast experience in the field of criminology, his qualifications too. I didn't realize that you had to get a good vibe qualification too *%87 *&^^&
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No good vibes from me
Killer Luke Mitchell: Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/14/__trashed-2/
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No good vibes from me
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Killer Luke Mitchell: Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/14/__trashed-2/
So..... just your speculation again then? *%87 *%87 *%87 *%87
The lack of a good vibe don't make his qualifications vanish into thin air.... (&^& (&^& (&^& (&^&
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Do you think David Wilson will do something on Sandra Lean and un-convicted baby killer Billy Middleton
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity/david-wilsons-crime-files-hunt-29711942
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No good vibes from me
Killer Luke Mitchell: Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/14/__trashed-2/
Comment after podcaster Sandra Lean's latest sermon: J How is Luke doing? Does he have lots of support and visitors? What about people writing to him? Does he need any of us to write to him ?
Does anyone visit him? Did SF say he was in HMP Greenock now?
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Comment after podcaster Sandra Lean's latest sermon: J How is Luke doing? Does he have lots of support and visitors? What about people writing to him? Does he need any of us to write to him ?
Does anyone visit him? Did SF say he was in HMP Greenock now?
If he doesn’t are you going to volunteer? Take him some toffees, I hear he likes the chewy sort.
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No good vibes from me
Killer Luke Mitchell: Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/14/__trashed-2/
It helps explain your views on Luke if you trust your ‘vibe’ over the evidence. You appear to disregard the information and facts, add in what you believe instead of the truth (ie the not existing 1020 text) and then he is ‘definitely’ guilty.
Also with regards to Prod Wilson suffering from Hybristophilia, I think that’s a terrible and disgusting thing to say and I really hope he pulls you up on this, we know he likes to find out who trolls are to deal with them.
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we know he likes to find out who trolls are to deal with them.
David Wilson knows who I am
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ie the not existing 1020 text
Judith Jones sent a text to killer Luke Mitchell at 10:20pm!
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David Wilson knows who I am
Why does he know who you are?
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Why does he know who you are?
None of your business
David Wilson knows who I am and has done since 2021
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None of your business
David Wilson knows who I am and has done since 2021
Did you get a cease and desist notice?
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Did you get a cease and desist notice?
Did Shane Mitchell serve a cease and desist notice on his mother Corinne Mitchell or charlatan & fraudster Sandra Lean ?
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Did Shane Mitchell serve a cease and desist notice on his mother Corinne Mitchell or charlatan & fraudster Sandra Lean ?
Yes both of them after the J English CM podcast I recall. Unless someone can find a recent podcast from either of them mentioning Shane that would be about the time.
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Yes both of them after the J English CM podcast I recall. Unless someone can find a recent podcast from either of them mentioning Shane that would be about the time.
Do you have a source for this Kenmore?
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Did Shane Mitchell serve a cease and desist notice on his mother Corinne Mitchell or charlatan & fraudster Sandra Lean ?
I’ll take that as a yes then.
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Do you have a source for this Kenmore?
From an authoritative source very near the horses mouth. Also, there is a live podcast from a year or two back that SL warns everyone not to mention SM/PM as that is not up for discussion.
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From an authoritative source very near the horses mouth. Also, there is a live podcast from a year or two back that SL warns everyone not to mention SM/PM as that is not up for discussion.
Rather further down the the horse I think.
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He sounds like Sandra Lean or vice versa
Researching a case for 2 years is wrong now too Stephanie? (&^&
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He most dedinately knew about Jodi Jones killers case/campaign in 2021
Where in that quote does it say that he didn't know about the case? Come on Stephanie have a day off will you (&^& (&^& (&^& (&^&
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Researching a case for 2 years is wrong now too Stephanie? (&^&
He didn’t ‘research’ the case! David Wilson was blagging!
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Where in that quote does it say that he didn't know about the case?
David Wilson is another innocence fraud grifter - like Mark Williams Thomas
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https://leedsinternationalfestival.com/panel/whats-our-obsession-with-true-crime/
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He didn’t ‘research’ the case! David Wilson was blagging!
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Again that is just your opinion. You have no real facts. Unless you are David Wilson *%87
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David Wilson is another innocence fraud grifter - like Mark Williams Thomas
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https://leedsinternationalfestival.com/panel/whats-our-obsession-with-true-crime/
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Fancy coming with some actual facts instead of continually sharing your bile and tripe. You should work for the DR. Maybe you could have your friend JH’s old job. You would be perfect for it! (&^&
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Thora Allen
Sandra Lean that account takes everything out of of context!
I read the other day that in their opinion Prof Wilson isn't a “proper” Criminologist in their eyes because. Drum 🥁 roll.....
He doesn't give off a good vibe.
It's laughable 😂
He’s another blagger similar to Sandra Lean Thora Allen
Some reasoning given here
Could David Wilson ‘Suffer’ From Hybristophilia? (Part 176)
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Thora Allen
Sandra Lean that account takes everything out of of context!
I read the other day that in their opinion Prof Wilson isn't a “proper” Criminologist in their eyes because. Drum 🥁 roll.....
He doesn't give off a good vibe.
It's laughable 😂
I also find him creepy Thora
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Thora Allen
Geo Fergie I am glad that he is finally taking a proper look at it.
He hasn’t taken a ‘proper look at it’ either Thora Allen
He was blagging
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2023/04/14/__trashed-2/
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Btw Thora Allen can you let Jacqueline Johnson know I didn’t block her - she blocked me
Jacqueline Johnston
Heather Brunt thanks Heather I need to block this group now tho ....& strangley I can't find them ...hope they've blocked me haha since this post #somepeoplecannotbeeducated
Jacqueline Johnston
Heather Brunt obviously rattling cages lol x
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Btw Thora Allen can you let Jacqueline Johnson know I didn’t block her - she blocked me
Jacqueline Johnston
Heather Brunt thanks Heather I need to block this group now tho ....& strangley I can't find them ...hope they've blocked me haha since this post #somepeoplecannotbeeducated
Jacqueline Johnston
Heather Brunt obviously rattling cages lol x
Why don’t you join the group and tell them yourself?
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Why don’t you join the group and tell them yourself?
They will probably be in hiding under a fake profile. That's how Stephanie Hall gets the comments .
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David Wilson did a TV show whereby he/and the producers/editors attempted to pretend convicted killer Bert Spencer was responsible for the so called ‘Bridgewater fours’ murder of Carl Bridgewater
Michael Hickey (who confessed to Carl Bridgewater’s murder) should never have been released from prison!
And how he only got a suspended prison sentence with a murder conviction already under his belt - was a joke
Http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/carl-bridgewater-michael-hickey-robbery-15350011
https://www.hja.net/news-and-insights/hja-in-the-news/civil-liberties-human-rights/vincent-michael-hickeys-solicitor-welcomes-the-government-announcement-on-saved-living-expenses-deductions-for-miscarriage-of-justice-victims-but-it-doesnt-go-fa/
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Have you actually read about the numerous crimes of Michael Hickey? He was a monster! A vile specimen that deserved to be locked up for a very long time.
From a 2018 newspaper article: "Ms Julia Morgan, defending, argued that Hickey suffered from mental health issues related to his time in prison for which he had been receiving treatment since his release in 1997."
A person deserves to be punished for the crimes he or she committed, not a crime he or she did not commit. The police fitted him up for the murder of Carl Bridgewater. There is also the issue of Mr. Hickey's mental health (see above), which the judge may have seen as a mitigating circumstance.
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From a 2018 newspaper article: "Ms Julia Morgan, defending, argued that Hickey suffered from mental health issues related to his time in prison for which he had been receiving treatment since his release in 1997."
A person deserves to be punished for the crimes he or she committed, not a crime he or she did not commit. The police fitted him up for the murder of Carl Bridgewater. There is also the issue of Mr. Hickey's mental health (see above), which the judge may have seen as a mitigating circumstance.
This alleged mental health issues were claimed to be as a result of his long incarceration, I am referring to the armed robberies he took part in which inflicted terror on members of the public including an elderly couple, prior to his incarceration. He already had a criminal record by this point and was clearly a thorougly unpleasant individual, not someone to be revered as a martyr and a hero as some people appear to want to do.
Theft Act 1968, s.8
(1) A person is guilty of robbery if he steals, and immediately before or at the time of doing so, and in order to do so, he uses force on any person or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force.
(2) A person guilty of robbery, or of an assault with intent to rob, shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for life.
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PROFESSOR DAVID WILSON
Luke Mitchell should never have been charged, let alone convicted
12 hrs ago
CRIME
By David Wilson
Professor of Criminology
I’ve never needed to be convinced that miscarriages of justice happen in Scotland.
I even wrote a book - Signs of Murder - about one such miscarriage that occurred after the murder of a young woman called Margaret McLaughlin in Carluke in July 1973. In that case the police “fitted up” a local man called George Beattie, who was a bit “soft”, enjoyed train spotting as a hobby and had a below average IQ. During his fourth police interview George would go on to give what I described as a “pseudo-confession”, in which he claimed that Margaret had been stabbed by men wearing tall hats with mirrors on them, and that he had been forced
In Signs of Murder I even recount tracking down the person I believe to have been more likely to have been Margaret’s killer and report a tense exchange that I had with him on his doorstep. He wasn’t pleased.
The publication of the book led to questions being asked in the Scottish parliament and raising hopes that George, at long last, might get exonerated for a crime that he most certainly did not commit.
However, slowly and silently, the Scottish judicial system clearly decided that George had served his sentence and so what was the point of re-opening old wounds and owning up to a collective failure of having got Margaret’s murder investigation and then George’s criminal prosecution so disastrously wrong.
I knew about Margaret’s murder because it happened in the town where I once lived, and two of my sisters still call Carluke home. I left to go to university and so all of my career has been in England. I really don’t know too much about Scottish cases – unless they come to be featured in Crime Files, which I present for BBC Scotland, or they have something about them which means they get covered south of the border. Crime reporting still tends to be regional, rather than national and even the story of “Bible John” is barely known in England.
However, at a public talk that I gave last December I was asked a question about Luke Mitchell, who had been convicted in 2005 for the murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones, after her body had been found in woodland near Dalkeith in Midlothian in 2003. I can’t remember my exact reply, but I said that I knew the case was controversial and that it generated heated debate as Luke has never admitted his guilt even after nearly 20 years in prison, although Jodi’s family remain convinced that he’s the culprit. I had also become more aware of the case, I said, because I had viewed some of a two-part documentary on Channel 5 called Murder in a Small Town. However, such was the pressure of work, I hadn’t managed to watch the second episode.
Over the last few months, prompted by several emails I have at last been able to devote time to look more fully at Luke Mitchell’s case, and what I’ve seen gives me cause for concern. What happened to Luke almost echoes all the mistakes that took place within the investigation, trial and conviction of George Beattie and so my fear is that Jodi’s killer has never been caught and punished at all.
It took me two years to research and write Signs of Murder and even then I wasn’t privy to all of the materials that would normally have been made available to me if I had been conducting an official investigation. The same holds true for what I’ve been able to read and analyse about Jodi’s murder, and nor have I devoted two years to come to a conclusion. However, I have been able to: read transcripts from Luke’s trial; consult various appeals that were made on his behalf; looked at a range of newspaper commentary (some of which supported his conviction); watched Murder in a Small Town and also part of the Trials that Shocked Scotland series; listened to a podcast about the case – which also devoted most of an episode to Luke Mitchell speaking from prison (and he clearly is an intelligent man); and delved into some social media – which I can assure you is not for the faint-hearted.
So this range of materials can hardly be described as “definitive”. Nor have I been able to look at any surviving forensic evidence – there was none in George’s case – and, if press reports are to be believed, in the wake of the screening of the Channel 5 documentary, all of this was going to be destroyed in Luke’s case, until his solicitors stepped in to prevent its destruction.
However, even accepting that I could not access all of the materials I would have wanted, there is literally nothing – nothing - I could uncover that warranted Luke even being charged with Jodi’s murder, never mind being sent to trial. Instead there seemed to be a concerted press campaign to damage his character which served to support the police’s actions, and in much the same way that George’s reputation got tarnished by his pseudo-confession – he’s alluding to the pop group Slade with his reference to men wearing tall hats with mirrors on them – Luke gets similar treatment but this time it’s the American goth-rocker Marilyn Manson that’s harnessed to do the damage. There is no forensic evidence whatsoever to connect Luke to Jodi’s murder, despite the horrifying way in which she was killed. As with George, there were no “signs of murder” on his person, and nor is it true that his clothing was destroyed by his mother after the event. Witness testimony is weak, inconsistent and more than likely wrong, and about the only thing that I could see that needed to be investigated more fully was his part in the initial discovery of Jodi’s body. However, this was not just a case of circumstantial evidence leading to a conviction, but one of literally no evidence at all.
Nothing has happened as far as George Beattie’s miscarriage is concerned and my fear is that nothing will happen about Luke Mitchell’s either. The Scottish Criminal Justice System never seems keen to admit to its mistakes but, as I have always argued, a judicial system cannot call itself mature and civilised unless it’s prepared to hold its hands up and admit when it gets things wrong.
And that’s what they did in Luke Mitchell’s case – it got things wrong, and so for me Jodi’s killer is still to be brought to justice.
Professor David Wilson is emeritus professor of criminology at Birmingham City University
More about David Wilson here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilson_(criminologist)
How was scammer David Wilson able to read trial transcripts which hadn’t been transcribed before?
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Do Not Trust Mis ”Leading Criminologists” Like David Wilson When It Comes To Murderers Like Sadist Luke Mitchell (Part 318)
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http://theerrorsthatplaguethemiscarriageofjusticemovement.home.blog/2024/02/08/do-not-trust-mis-leading-criminologists-like-david-wilson-when-it-comes-to-murderers-like-luke-mitchell-318/