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author=faithlilly link=topic=11976.msg707137#msg707137 date=1693298588]
‘Some markers’ is of absolutely no evidential value whatsoever. I’m sure some of us here share some DNA markers.
There was Jodi’s DNA on a pair of Luke’s trousers and that was deemed innocent transfer. Perhaps that’s what’s mixing you up?
What do you think of Steven Kelly’s full DNA profile on Jodi’s body? How incriminating do you feel that that was?
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As far as I'm aware, there was nothing found at the locus which could link LM to the murder. There were 'traces' of his DNA found, from semen, on a bra and all over her body but it was very likely from innocent transfer from their previous meet-ups, and the reason for all of his traces of DNA being there was very likely from rain water diffusion. Likewise, it was accepted that the full DNA profile (from semen) of SK's found on Jodi's t-shirt -- a t-shirt that, it was accepted, was borrowed from her sister Janine; LM said to police at the start of the investigation that Jodi sometimes borrowed Janine's clothes, even identifying the black baggy cords that she'd worn on the night of the murder were Janine's -- at the locus was innocently transferred, as the t-shirt was freshly laundered (it smelled strongly of washing detergent) and therefore the said full profile was from a degraded semen stain that had survived a washing cycle and had spread to her bra and other parts of her body via rain water diffusion, not to mention that Jodi's clothes were all bundled together by police during the early hours of 01.07.03 and therefore causing more innocent DNA transfer to different clothes, etc. Like I said, Jodi borrowed the black t-shirt she was wearing on the evening she was murdered from Janine, and Janine was in an intimate relationship with SK; the t-shirt smelled strongly of washing powder detergent, which led experts to believe the semen stain from which SK's full profile was obtained was a degraded semen stain that had survived a washing machine cycle (or made contact with other clothes of Janine's or SK's that had semen stains on them prior to the murder). Besides, SK's and Janine's whereabouts between dinner time and 2030 hrs on 30.06.03 were thoroughly checked out and they were both alibied by his father, Robert Kelly, as well as other sources. More crucially, Janine herself alibied SK back in 2003 -- just like she does in the present day even though they stopped dating each other a few years after the murder. Janine and Jodi were close as sisters throughout all their lives right up until the murder, so there was no way she would've tried to cover up Jodi's murder. Likewise, JOSJ was close to his younger sister Jodi. They were always a close and loving family right up until Jodi's death. We've all heard about JOSJ's mental health struggles and temper tantrums throughout his late teens and so on, but that doesn't make him a murderer. They were a close and loving family who had problems like all families do, so the notion that he had something to do with his own sister's horrific death is ridiculous. Besides, do you think he would've visited SL's door like he did years after the murder to vent his frustration at her trying to keep the case open, if he'd had something to do with his younger sister's death? It doesn't make sense. Surely he would've distanced himself as much as possible from the case had he been involved in some way and gotten away with it? Josj was clearly annoyed with SL for all the right reasons: because she was -- and still is -- prolonging their pain and suffering. JUDJ visited CM's place of work years after the murder to confront her. Again, this confrontation was for all the right reasons. It wasn't because she was worried that CM could've exposed the Jones family as possibly having had something to do with Jodi's murder, but, rather, that she was annoyed with the fact that CM was prolonging her family's grief and suffering; annoyed at CM's denial.
Btw, the 'stocky man' myth has been debunked several times now over the years. It wasn't JOSJ who was following Jodi on the Easthouses main road that day.
