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Luke Mitchell and the murder of his teenage girfriend Jodi Jones on 30 June 2003. / Re: Luke Mitchell Parole Denied
« Last post by Chris_Halkides on Today at 06:03:22 PM »I do not understand what your second sentence means. A parole board hearing (as I understand it) is not about guilt or innocence. Regarding the rest of your comment, let me quote former prison governor David Wilson: "However, slowly and silently, the Scottish judicial system clearly decided that George [Beattie] 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 McLaughlin]’s murder investigation and then George’s criminal prosecution so disastrously wrong....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." I think that there is a tendency to cover up that is universal; whether this did nor did not influence the parole board is impossible to say.