JB, have you read Shane & Corinne's court transcripts in their entirety? I think it was as clear as day they were both lying (by omission mostly). They gave many "I don't know" and "I can't remember" answers under oath; they knew they were caught out and lying, not least about that (false) alibi. Most damning of all was Shane not corroborating the alibi. All Shane had to do was say his brother was there in the house between 1650-1715 and Luke would likely have been a free man. He didn't corroborate the alibi. It was very damaging to his defence and was the icing on the cake for the prosecution (on top of all the other adminicles of circumstantial evidence used to convict LM). AD Turnbull even warned Corinne about the seriousness of perjury 2 or 3 times throughout her testimony, as it was glaringly obvious she was lying (as was Shane). The fact is, no 2 boys who were in that house at the same time could have failed to see or hear each in that house that day. Shane made it clear that he took measures to make sure the house was empty before logging on to the computer and downloading pornographic images to masturbate to (looking in the living room & kitchen as soon as he arrived home at 1650 and calling out "Hello?" and getting no answer). Alan Turnbull even asked Shane directly who he thought was in the house when he arrived home at 1650 and Shane replied, verbatim: "No one at the time." More significantly, he then said, verbatim: "I genuinely don't remember seeing my brother that day. He could have been there." And that tells you all you need to know: that LM wasn't in the house between 1650-1715. Shane would not be roped into that false alibi concocted by Corinne. Initially he went along with it back in July '03, but, after being shown the pictures of Jodi's butchered body in court, his human side shone through and he did the right thing and told the truth (i.e., saying that his wee brother wasn't there). When Shane was shown those horrific images of Jodi in court, he literally recoiled back in horror and went chalk white in colour with shock. He even asked if he could sit down and take a glass of water so he could compose himself. Then, wiping away tears, he said, verbatim: "I genuinely don't remember seeing my brother that day. He could have been there." As I said, after seeing the photos, his human side came to the fore and he wasn't prepared to lie and give Luke a false alibi. Shane's testimony was extremely damaging to Luke's defence.
OK, thanks, Mr Apples, i have digested everything you have said there!
