Seems Jodi had ‘foresight’ too.
What was the point of Luke deleting incriminating texts when he knew there was a copy which might not have been deleted on Judith’s phone?
Very much the point is it not? - Of him phoning the Jones landline. As he knew for sure there was only one place her parents were expecting her to be going. To see him. You are completely missing the fact that he knew exactly what was in those messages. - the privacy of them, that almost non existent chance of Jodi not deleting them prior to giving her mother her phone back. But he could never count on that totally, nor of being able to be retrieved. So he had to have this different tale. Of the meet to be in Newbattle. Which he claimed was to be after dinner, after leaving home at 5.45pm for this after dinner meeting - around 6pm. This is the story he first told. - with that added proviso of course - this tangled mess of claiming - there was no fixed plans as such - of claiming to tell his mother, that if Jodi turned up - he would be in the abbey, that she would know where?
He did not know that Jodi had said to her mother, that they would be "mucking around up here". He needed to delete those texts - and Jodi did also due to their privacy.
Of this constant talk of putting LM down to being some masterminded murderer - well he was not, this is why he is in jail serving life for Jodi's murder. He flew into a rage and murdered her. Everything that happened after that point was never going to be easy. Disposal yes. That perfect cover - no chance. Those wheels firmly in motion. Jodi had left to meet with him and only him. At the time he knew. Thus why one had to have this time firmly at home, from his mothers arrival at 5.05pm. To cancel out AB's sighting. To not being on Newbattle Road untl 5.45pm and just after - to cancel out F&W's sighting. We can enter the simple realm of that call, to set alibi in place - but we know he was still towering over what he had done at 5.32pm - so we can also enter into the depravity of his mindset here. And of the call to connect at 5.38pm. 6 mins making sure he spoke to someone - whilst still at the scene. The fleeing and been caught by F&W at the gate at 17.42pm. Who else was around this path at those times of the calls? - where he was sure no one was going to be able to hear him speak? Did he hear other people? - We know the duo were back home by 5.30pm. No chance of escaping until they were well gone? Was LM waiting until he heard that noisy bike away altogether? Making sure that call was short and sweet, of no noise in the background of simply "cool, bye"
But he was seen. And he had not left his house around 5.45pm, his mother had not gotten home around 5.05pm. And they did bring SM into the mix with the exact same story of her arriving home at 5.05pm - All lies, LM was not at home, And every single part of those first stories were rammed into less than 15mins. And he did appear back on this road again, with a different jacket on - at a point in the road, he claimed not to go as far as? Which was pretty much the same area that he had disappeared from - around the gate of the F&W sighting. And he had only hung around enough for approx 20mins - until LM was not seen again, until with the boys in the Abbey ar 7.30pm.
And the above are only some of what lay behind all of this. - Of the ban on this path. Of his claimed non worry about his girlfriend not arriving at the other end of this isolated path. Of this initial short time he gave - expanding to nearly two hours. - Due to those very calls. Because he then claimed to make them well away from this path - at the entrance of the estate. Which showed the lies in the story of being at home. For he then had to have left around 5.30pm - for a meeting at 6pm? To then claim he had phoned the Jones landline - to claim that he asked AO "is Jodi on her way?" for 6pm? - to claim he was told she had only just left? Rather than what AO did say "of already left to meet with him". Those holes just got bigger and the shoring over even more extraordinary.
This mastermind we are told - who left no dna at the scene - who had already had many thoughts on the best way to kill someone. Carried this out. He could not have, ever banked on the police being the police though - Or of that clear other evidence coming through - He just kept on tripping himself up, heaping that suspicion upon himself - not in a million years was LM framed. There was absolutely no way - that he could be eliminated. And that naivety of his non arrest, of believing he had gotten away with it. Carries on with those campaigning for innocence - that the evidence was so weak they had to wait 10 months for that final arrest. Exactly how LM thought, until just after those celebrations of getting that tattoo, when CM said to staff "we are celebrating" - and the only knocking to be had on anyone's door - was LM's in the early hours of that morning in April 2004 when he was last to see freedom. He was simply not arrested on the basis of this being a circumstantial case - that due to no incriminating DNA - that arrest could not be made imminently. That naivety again, of believing that DNA was everything - it simply was not. For whilst there was none incriminating LM - there was none of a stranger murder either.
