I believe that's all very possible or someone helped him. Two witnesses said in court that the male wearing a green bomber jacket on Newbattle Road was definitely not LM so who could the male in the green bomber jacket have been at that point in time? Then, LM shows up wearing a green bomber jacket. Positively identified.
The reason why they said it definitely wasn’t Luke in the green bomber jacket, imo, was because Luke had changed considerably by the time the trial came around. He looked like a completely different person by the time the trial came around (owed to puberty and stress; Luke was obviously still growing and developing at that age, and of course the stress of the whole ordeal obviously contributed to his change of appearance .... he also had a lot longer hair at trial and it was in a ponytail). The 3 guys on the pushbikes who knew Luke positively identified him on the N’battle rd wearing the green bomber jacket. They also identified him at court. AB said she was as sure as she could be that it was Luke she saw on Easthouses path, but she too, like the couple mo & dh, couldn’t identify him at court. Like I said, Luke had drastically changed in appearance between June ‘03 & the end of ‘04.