Too many people appear to have changed their statements.
Prime amongst them being Shane Mitchell whose statement formed part of the alibi defence Mitchell was relying on.
There appear to be several other possible suspects.
All of whom were traced and checked out by the police.
He was aged 14 (and yes, I know there are 14 year olds that have committed murder, but there can't be that many).
He was a sexually active fourteen year old drug user who acquired and distributed drugs whether he was a dealer or not I have no idea. Apparently he was Jodi's first boyfriend so it can be presumed he introduced her to both sex and drugs.
Jodi was his girlfriend, and I don't see what reason he could have had to kill her.
Apparently Jodi was one of three that we know of.
One of whom he was due to stay with on holiday the other of whom dumped him alleging he had held a knife to her throat.
Some of the evidence against him, such as the eyewitnesses, seems, to me, unreliable.
The eye witness evidence was checked out by the police and I believe stood the test of tying in with other evidence
And that's apart from the fact that the way he was interrogated was, IMO, disgusting.
The police were reprimanded in the appeal court ... but apparently he gave as good as he got with an aplomb far beyond his years.
I believe there was a responsible adult in with him at interrogation - if so and if as disgusting as you think, why was there no intervention?
I have a couple of questions ~- evidence is he carried a knife ... what happened to it?
- evidence is he wore a particular type of jacket ... what happened to it?
Both of these items were replaced exactly by Mitchell's mother.
I have taught many 14 year olds over the years. Many were sexually active (at least, so they said!!), many used cannabis, and many two (or three) timed their girlfriends. None of this was particularly unusual at the time (2008, and before). I also came across knife carriers (always for self defence, according to them!).
14 year old boys normally dump the girlfriends they no longer want; they don't murder them.
Many teenage boys are "cocky" and cheeky. I'm not surprised at how Luke behaved towards the police, whether innocent or guilty, but particularly if he was innocent.
WAS there a "responsible adult" with Luke during his questioning by the police?
There are questions around the parka-----he was bought one after the murder; whether he had one before appears to be disputed. There was, supposedly a missing knife, and one was found at the murder site months afterwards, I believe, but it was though not to be connected to the murder.
