Some readers might not know this but another prisoner in HMP Edinburgh confessed to his cell mate that he did it. I met this guy and believe you me that even though he had learning difficulties, he was extremely worldly and was very capable of just about any mischief. What was interesting is that some of the information he had was never in the public domain. I let Donald Findlay know about it and the police supposedly interviewed him in Saughton while Mitchell was awaiting trial but nothing came of it as far as I am aware.
I also informed Corinne Mitchell directly about the claim several years ago and more recently Mitchell's new lawyers in Glasgow. It just struck me at the time that this guy was cycling round all the bridle paths in the Dalkeith area with a rape kit so he was well placed as a suspect. He had form for such attacks and was convicted of the one below.
Notice how there is no mention of a bicycle in any press reports?
I have copied the article below as they tend to disappear over time.
25th November 2004
Life sentence for rape kit sex attacker A SEX attacker who carried a ''rape kit'' was jailed for life yesterday for hitting a woman on the head with a shovel and indecently assaulting her.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Allan Roberts, 42, had attended an offenders' scheme for stalking another woman. He completed the programme before his sex assault on a woman in Musselburgh, East Lothian, in May this year.
He told a psychologist he had violent fantasies about sex attacks on women and admitted walking around Haddington, East Lothian, with a ''rape kit'' - a mask, pillowcase and ties -
hunting for a victim.Lord Reed ruled that Roberts, of Davidson Place, Haddington, must serve at least two and a half years before he could apply for release on licence. He has also been put on the sex offenders' register.
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/life-sentence-for-rape-kit-sex-attacker-1.69800