The description of the book on Amazon.
Following the brutal murder of 14 year old schoolgirl, Jodi Jones, in 2003, Scott Forbes knew within days that there was something wrong with the police investigation into her 14 year-old boyfriend, Luke Mitchell. He knew, because a man who should have been a person of interest to the investigation was being completely ignored by the police. A man Scott Forbes knew very well.
Over the next 19 years, Scott pursued every avenue, spending thousands of hours studying case papers, speaking to local people, investigating leads ... becoming a lawyer along the way. Here, he highlights areas the police did not even consider, because of their single-minded determination to make a murderer out of a schoolboy. Local people, local sub cultures, local practices, hidden from the authorities and most of the general population, that provided the exact circumstances in which a murder like this could occur.
The author confronts some ugly truths and disturbing realities which were commonplace, if well concealed, in the local area. But were they well concealed from the investigating authorities, or did they wilfully turn a blind eye? As you read, ask yourself, is it possible that the police really knew nothing of these goings on, right in the heart of one of the most brutal murder scenes in Scottish history?
Could this be the answer to what really happened to Jodi Jones? And could it prove, after almost two decades, that Luke Mitchell had no involvement in his girlfriend's murder?
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19 years on the case? > Lie.
Became a lawyer? > Lie.
