A counter argument to your ‘counter argument’ is why alarm bells didn’t ring with Jodi’s mum if Jodi had left her home before 5 yet hadn’t met Luke almost 50 minutes later? Did her mother killer her? Of course not but it does clearly demonstrate the paucity of extrapolating without accurate knowledge.
And to test any of the theories above you must be sure the person convicted committed the crime. Just because you are able to apply some of the elements above does not necessarily mean that they are in any way relevant to the crime committed.
But of course you’re right, you’re not a criminologist. Dr Lean, on the other hand, is.
There is NO counter argument at all, not even a snifter of one. Another feeble attempt by Mitchell's defence - Always good to have a refresher around this claimed comparison to debate.
LM eventually, after changes had to be made. Is on Newbattle Road (claimed) for the best part of 90mins. The claim is of waiting and looking out for Jodi. He had claimed to be walking out to meet with her, he did not get very far. The lad is twiddling his thumbs doing nothing for around 90mins. Time is dragging and dragging. He placed a call to his mother, the claim was to ask If Jodi had been to the house.
Two slips happened here whilst trying to make up any reason for that call other than the truth of course. That the girl somehow got past him whilst he was looking out for her, that he also knew his mother was in the garden still. On that miserable night, idling her time in the garden it is claimed enjoying the fresh air. So we have an adult and the youth, now with that long passage of time, neither doing much of anything really. None of the two are concerned, at all. Both armed with self claimed knowledge, that of the ban on a path due to it's "secluded" nature. That after such a long time the girl had NOT turned up in Newbattle, and he calls his mother and NOT Jodi's mother.
He calls the boys and he calls them back and he calls them back again, they were running slightly late. Claims to have went directly home when he leaves them. That upon his arrival home he claims to have asked his mother again, had Jodi been in contact. Such an odd thing to claim, for in the earlier call he says he has told her to tell Jodi 'they' would be in the Abbey, she would know where. Telepathy perhaps. She had NOT of course arrived in the Abbey, and she had NOT of course made any contact with Mitchell, nor his mother with him to ask again had Jodi had been to any house. So, the claim then is that she told him 'not to worry, the girl would have got caught up gabbing somewhere' This is 3 1/2 hrs after he claimed to have left home. An adult claiming to tell her son not to worry about a girl some 3 1/2 hrs later who had failed to turn up in Newbattle, from walking that "secluded path" - Behave.
10:40pm comes and there has been no meet he claims. 10:50pm and it is guns blazing, he is off like a shot, instantly places a physical search to that path. He is gone X amount of time and his mother is trying to get a hold of him, the claim is of worry, of her son walking that "secluded path" She did NOT of course phone Jodi's house, the place he was supposed to be heading to after the search of that path.
So that young girl, with no phone, no guard dog, no show, had zero concern for her, from the adult, from her son - It is as the AD stated, there was none for she already knew that Jodi Jones was dead. Those very first words spoken "Jodi's dead!"
So what was it you were trying to compare this with exactly. Jodi's mother/father. Who were completely blindsided to ANY danger. Time passing quickly whilst busy and occupied. Who made it clear that because there had been NO contact back from LM they believed the meeting had naturally taken place, wherever that was to be, of somewhere up here. No path, nothing secluded, a girl walking alone with no phone, no guard dog by her side. - Behave!
