Ana Azaria
We have questions
The aim of this post isn’t to suggest that any particular person is responsible for the crime – but to highlight discrepancies in the investigation that were just dismissed without any explanation - and as a result, the questions that we are left with, that we should not have been left with. This is one of many reasons we need a review.
Contradictions
The prosecution used a testimony by witness LK, to try and back up the 5.15pm time of death. 5.15pm is also the time that a witness saw the moped leaning against the v break at the wall, rider-less.
The appeal document addressed the moped boys, dismissing their relevance at the scene in relation to the time of the murder.
It said:
“Between about 1705 and 1720 LK was cycling along the path from the west to the east end, and heard a noise, which he described as "a strangling sort of sound, a human thing", coming from the far side of the wall. (JF) and (GD) rode a moped along the path at about the same time. They did not hear anything of the sort described by (LK). They did not see him, nor he them.
What the appeal failed to mention (why?), is that LK DID hear a motorbike...
At the trial, LK had said: "I said to police in my statement that I heard a motorcycle in the woods on the other side of the wall. It seemed quite far away from the wall."
In statements, both moped boys described pushing the bike because the engine had stopped working.
JF said that the engine was not running when it was seen leaning against the v break rider-less by a witness (at 5.15pm).
A statement from GD said “I know the motorbike (JF) and I were on was really noisy so we couldn’t hear anything over it.”
If the engine had stopped working by the time the witness saw the bike against the wall at 5.15pm, basic logic tells us that this is AFTER the cyclist had heard the motorbike – while he also heard the concerning sounds (that the prosecution used to back up the time of the murder). If the cyclist heard the sounds after the bike had been leaning at the v break at, then logic tells us the murder didn't happen at 5.15pm (if we go by the prosecution asking us to believe that these sounds were indeed connected to the murder).
This was never picked up on by the appeal or questioned at the trial.
The moped boys explanation of 'can't remember', when they were asked what they were doing behind the wall at 5.15pm, was accepted.
Not one of the witnesses – the witness who saw the bike at 5.15pm, the cyclist, or the moped boys - saw Luke at the v break or anywhere near the scene, even though they all passed through or were at the scene during the EXACT time-frame the prosecution told the jury that Jodi had been killed.
The moped was destroyed in the days after the murder and was never forensically tested.
JF had said in early statements that he cut his hair because he didn’t want to look like the ‘Stocky man’ (the last person seen following Jodi in the direction of the path just after 5pm) or be ‘wrongly accused of the murder’ - this was in a statement made before the information regarding Stocky man was released to the public on 16th July 2003.
#factsvsmedia
Who claimed to see the moped at the V in the wall riderless and where exactly were they when then claim to have seen the moped riderless?
And is Ana Azaria aware of the fact that it’s the norm for these types of questions to come up in police investigations which involve human beings - all of whom are fallible