Don’t know the name of this senior social worker, but I’ve read several articles indicating that, whoever they were, at no point did they feel it necessary to intervene when Luke was being aggressively interrogated by police at Dalkeith police station — the implication being that Luke, even at 14 years of age, was more than capable of looking after himself. Of course, like other aspects of Luke Mitchell’s conduct throughout the investigation, this was seen as incriminatory — the implication being that he was cocky, calculating, cunning, mendacious and underhand. It was like Luke could do nothing right, and was in the classic ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ predicament/dilemma. Another example of this was Luke’s perceived lack of emotion throughout the investigation and trial; this was construed as a sign of guilt, even though he was advised by both DF and the trial judge to remain emotionless throughout the trial, and was heavily medicated.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/6759709/luke-mitchell-evidence-guilty-jodi-jones-murder/
Luke Mitchell Mocked Cops During InterviewLUKE Mitchell gave as good as he got during a police interview about the murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones, a court was told yesterday.
ByGordon Mcilwraith
00:00, 16 FEB 2008UPDATED11:31, 9 SEP 2013
The teenager "ridiculed and insulted" the officers questioning him and never dropped his guard, it was claimed.
Mitchell's defence team had complained police adopted the good cop, bad cop routine and tried to trick him.
They also claimed that during his trial the prosecution used parts of the police interview to "cherry-pick the fruit of the well-poisoned tree."
But at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh, advocate depute John Beckett QC said: "It is highly relevant he coped perfectly well, gave as good as he got and was not pressured or deceived into making an admission.
"There doesn't appear to be trickery, bullying or any unfair form of questioning."
Mitchell was 15 when he was first questioned by police in August 2003 - just over a month after 14-year-old Jodi's mutilated body was found near a path linking their homes in Dalkeith, Midlothian. Mr Beckett accepted that some of the police questioning had been unsatisfactory.
But he said it had not amounted to deliberate trickery.
The prosecutor reminded the three judges that in his summing up to the jury, Alan Turnbull QC stated: "He has lied constantly and arrogantly to the police."
Mr Beckett said: "I submit his will was not broken at the interview and he made no admission of guilt."
Mitchell, who is serving a minimum of 20 years for the brutal murder, claims he has suffered a miscarriage of justice.
The appeal will resume next week.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/luke-mitchell-mocked-cops-during-968998 ________________________________________________________________
Why are we reworking evidence which was addressed during Mitchell's trial and reaffirmed at Mitchell's failed appeal.
Mitchell was a drug dealer/supplier - an arrogant and consummate liar who thought he could run rings around the police and to top it all up he is a perverted murderer.
Not exactly the type of shrinking violet his supporters would like people to think.
His very visible laid back persona is being presented as being drugged to the eyeballs - I'll go with that one - but was that as a result of prescription drugs or was it due to indulging his normal heavy duty usage to which he had apparently easy access to copious amounts - or was it a mixture of both.