https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9846975/cops-destroyed-evidence-jodi-jones-luke-mitchell/
Thought this deserved its own post. Absolutely shocking that this was allowed to go ahead. We always knew the police did a poor job during the investigation now seems they are looking to cover things up in my opinion. Just hope they have not destroyed everything and there is still stuff Scott, Sandra and the team can have retested.
Nonsense - Lets actually dissect this a little. The inference being that they have destroyed evidence which could finally show Mitchell to be innocent.
Firstly, it is 12yrs legally for things to be retained in a 'solved' series crime. It has been 17yrs since Mitchell's guilty verdict alone. This since 2014 to 26 is nonsense. When that refusal came back from the SCCRC. There would have had to be something directly from them, of stipulating that 'certain' things should be retained longer. And even IF this has happened, it certainly is NOT around what Ms Lean nor Mr Forbes believe should have been there for them, in this needle in a haystack for some imaginary silver bullet. It would be around 'certain' things and not the thousands of stuff gathered and labelled in a list. Just because they apply the word 'evidence' to everything does not make it anything of the sort.
The quote from the Crown, really? This is not around destroying evidence, it is around disposing of items personally belonging to Mitchell, who should have been contacted prior to disposing of his items. Legal action that may be taken for NOT contacting him, now halted to see if what is remaining in that list has anything he desires to have back?
Confused? That massive list of labelled items, storage and the legal time well past its date to retain. Putting 'production' 'evidence' and all together - Behave. We can take the wall for a start, absolutely nothing to do with forensic evidence, it was a production which would have been taken up masses of storage. So do you believe that for every Tom, Dick and Harry bleating innocence, that Mitchell should have been favoured in some way. The law bent and shaped solely around him? 17yrs and NOT 8yrs.
What will be retained without any doubt will be forensic samples to do with the crime itself. These types of certain things that are kept with many crimes, solved or otherwise.
But please - This nonsense of things being "hidden" from his defence, seriously? Let us just take one of their "hidden" examples, that knife in the skip, plastered all over the media in 2003. The have been given a list of productions and oohing over it, with the usual manipulation applied to it. Oh, someone had a coat taken from them, oh there is my essays I was on about. - Utter nonsense.
The majority of stuff obtained NOT used by either the Crown or defence, of no value, such as knife in skip that yielded nothing of the victim. Ms Mitchell and the 'everything' they removed of Luke's. With only a tiny fraction of these used at trial. His shiny green coat, his knife, the pouch and so forth.
