"How could it be, Mr Mitchell, that Luke was in the house, you didn't think he was there, you didn't hear him there and you have no recollection of seeing him there, if he was?"
Exactly, Alan. The quote above, for me, sums up just how ridiculous Shane's evidence was. A complete debacle that demonstrated that his wee brother wasn't home. And contrary to what SL says, Shane did, eventually, concede his brother was not there when he arrived home at 1640 and when he went downstairs when his mother got home from work at 1720 (SM did try and wriggle his way out of admitting LM was not home by being vague and frequently saying he couldn't remember, but on his final day of evidence he categorically said his brother wasn't home between 1640 - 1720).
I do wonder if his telling the truth was borne of compassion & respect for Jodi or self-preservation? Probably the latter, imo, but then it might be an idea for me to read Shane's testimony in its entirety before drawing any conclusions on that (I've yet to read part 2 of his testimony). Maybe, too, because of his arrest on 14.04.04 and being charged with perverting the course of justice (subsequently, the charge was dropped as everyone knows), he was warned about perjury (and if not warned by the authorities, perhaps he himself was wary & conscious of it).
One final thing -- when was Shane's computer siezed and examined? I've always presumed it was before 14.04.04, as I don't think the police would arrest all 3 of them on the strength of Shane's changing his statement in early July '03 alone; the police having the evidence of his porn site visits combined with the changing of statements would be more robust evidence that would allow the police to formulate a theory that LM wasn't in the house and they were all lying and attempting to pervert the course of justice. It's just I'd seen a pic on alamy, dated 14.04.04, that showed police confiscating a PC (of course, it could have beein either LM's or CM's PC). The police interviewed SM for 6 hours on the morning of 14.04.04 after arresting him and, according to SL, the police introduced the porn site evidence in the last hour of that interview, so maybe they did only sieze SM's computer on the morning of 14.04.04 and only discovered the porn site evidence that same morning (allowing them to introduce it as evidence in the last hour of the interview). I don't think so, though? Anyone know? I haven't read all of SM's testimony, so maybe it's been explained.