Is this from his recorded phone conversation?
Jodi Jones killer Luke Mitchell boasts about Five Guys trip in prison interview
Chris TaylorHarry WilliamsonUpdated: 16:52, 17 Jun 2023
JODI Jones’ murderer Luke Mitchell boasted about eating at burger chain Five Guys during a secret prison trip on a packed bank holiday.
The killer, 34, mingled among unsuspecting shoppers during a visit out of HMP Greenock to Glasgow.
He has been enjoying the hush-hush two-hour-long jollies for months — and even begged to visit his mum near where the tragic teen’s body was found.
The fiend was caged for a minimum of 20 years for the slaying of his girlfriend Jodi, 14, two decades ago this month and could be released in just 24 months or so.
Mitchell detailed his restaurant jaunt and a number of other trips in a fresh series of interviews.
He said: “It was to Glasgow.
“It went alright.
“It was a bank holiday, it was fairly packed.
“It was a bit odd being out and about around that many people just milling around doing their own thing.
“Doing something completely different to what I have been used to for the last nearly two decades.
“I went out and got some food.
“I actually went to Five Guys to visit that for the first time.
“That was a good day out.”
Mitchell has been enjoying supervised visits from the nick since at least last year.
He is able to rub shoulders with clueless members of the public on shopping outings, museum tours or meet-ups at relatives’ homes.
The lag has visited a number of shops, but has been banned from visiting his mum’s home over fears it could upset neighbours.
Mitchell bragged about strolling ahead of his guards during one outing.
He added: “I went on a shopping trip.
“It was an odd experience for me just out and about with two GeoAmey escort staff trailing behind me.
“I visited a few shops — bought some toiletries, bought some games, bought some food.
“I kind of moved everywhere at a fast-forwarded pace just with the excitement of it.
“It was a tiring experience, I didn’t realise how much until I got back to the hall.
“It was exhausting.
“But it went good and I felt good about it.”
Mitchell revealed he has pleaded to visit his mum in a more than two-hour long interview recorded behind bars and uploaded to the internet.
He says she has left the area where he grew up.
But a social worker has refused to sign-off the trips amid concerns for her neighbours and Jodi’s family.
Mitchell says he was told “we don’t know what kind of reaction the community would have” to him “stepping out of a security van.
He moaned: “Due to my mother’s ill health, her coming out here to visit is extremely difficult.
I would like to use my time to visit with my mother and spend some time with her.
“They’re carried out in unmarked cars.
“The staff wear nondescript uniforms.
“There’s nothing to identify who we were or anything like that.
“I look completely different to how I do in all the pictures that are used of me.
“My question is how are people going to recognise who I am?”
Schoolgirl Jodi’s half-naked body was found in woodland in Dalkeith, Midlothian, in June 2003.
She had died from stab and slash wounds to her neck and body.
Mitchell, then also aged 14, led cops to her body.
A jury found him guilty of murdering her — which he has always denied.
