Murdered June 30, 2003.
Her fourteen year old boyfriend in prison for life.
The three men whose DNA was at the crime scene, never considered suspects, much less arrested or charged. Usually males whose DNA is found on, in or somewhat inconveniently close to the corpse of a raped and murdered fourteen year old girl are considered to be suspects in that rape and murder, but the Lothian and Borders Constabulary maintains that this was not a sex crime. Right from the start, the cops focused solely on the boyfriend whose DNA was not found on, in or near the corpse and who was spotted by two separate individuals to be sitting on a fence in a calm, composed manner with no scratches on his face or blood on his clothes.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Death at the Met.
As a PC at The Met he killed a puppy. As a Sergeant at The Met he killed two highly trained police dogs by leaving them in a hot (29 degree Celsius) car with all the windows closed up tight. I wonder how many dogs he will kill as an Inspector.
There is something wrong at the London Metropolitan Police.
There is something wrong at the London Metropolitan Police.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Luke Mitchell to be released by Supreme Court
Amidst much crying and carrying-on by Scottish politicians, the Supreme Court, an English court, will order the release from custody of Luke Mitchell, convicted of murder under Scots Law which at the time allowed initial interrogation without counsel. Under the Cadder decision allowing counsel at initial interrogation in accordance with the European Commission on Human Rights, Luke Mitchell was deemed to have been denied a fair trial.
Of course, why on earth a 14 year old boy whose dna was not found at the crime scene was tried when the three males whose dna was found at the crime scene were never considered suspects was not considered by the court. Nor did the court consider the massive press coverage about Luke Mitchell's supposed Satanism or fascination with Marilyn Manson simply because a Manson CD given to him a week after the murder was found in his house.
Amidst all the palaver about an English court being allowed to undermine Scots Law it should perhaps be remembered that if the Luke Mitchell case is an example of what Scottish police, Scottish prosecutors, Scottish judges and Scottish juries can do, then I submit that at long last Scots Law should indeed be undermined.
For those of you requiring an introduction to the Luke Mitchell case suffice it for me to say that the Lothian and Borders Constabulary promptly decided that fourteen year old Luke Mitchell would be considered the sole suspect in the murder of his fourteen year old girlfriend. The police did not seem at all troubled by Luke Mitchell having no scratches and having left no dna at the crime scene. The police therefore decided to ignore the three males whose dna was left on, in or inconveniently close by the corpse despite the fact that the three males had chosen to adopt various actions such as leaving the area, giving rather unusual explanations for their scratches and altering their appearance.
Soundly condemned by the press, termed a devotee of Satan and Marilyn Manson and banned from attending school Luke Mitchell endured hours of police questioning without benefit of counsel. After trial under circus-like conditions wherein he was denied the use of dna experts, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum term of confinement of twenty years even though it was clear that the notoriety of his case meant that he would serve the full life sentence without ever being allowed parole. Countless appeals to the Scottish Courts availed him naught. Even his petition of Nobile Officium presented at the Court of Inner Sessions fell on deaf ears.
Finally, the English Supreme Court will be ordering his release since his being denied counsel at the initial interrogation has been ruled to be a denial of fundamental human rights protected by the European Union. While Scottish politicians are bemoaning the destruction of Scots Law, it is perhaps time that we should all rejoice that at long last common sense seems to be prevailing.
For those of you who find such matters to be of interest, there appears to have been no comment made by the sister of the homicide victim who soon thereafter married one of the men whose semen was found on the victim’s tee shirt and underwear.
An earlier posting on this case is herewith set forth for the convenience of the readers:
A Final Incompetence …
Their Lordships, the five Justices of the High Court of Criminal Appeals, formally severed Luke Mitchell’s appeal from the proceedings since he was not then represented by counsel. This was done so as to give him additional time with which to seek the advice of counsel but the justices formally advised Luke Mitchell they would expect any such advice of counsel to be consonant with a recognition that the present proceedings as continuing against appellant Nat Fraser declared the grounds of the appeal to be legally incompetent.
Oh what a fine nicety of the law! We are not now denying your appeal because you don’t have a lawyer and we are giving you time to go get a lawyer but its obvious you will never be able to actually get a lawyer since we are now formally announcing your appeal to be legally incompetent.
What an awful mess. At age 14, Luke Mitchell gallantly set forth in the night to search for his overdue 14 year old girlfriend. Each and every member of the small search party stated to police that Luke’s dog created a ruckus at a small cleft in the wall and only then did Luke Mitchell proceed to discover the naked and woefully bloody corpse of his girlfriend. After extensive and persistent police questioning the witnesses changed their recollections as to the dog having located the corpse rather than Luke Mitchell having done so. This of course gave the police, the prosecutor and the press the opportunity to repeatedly point out that Luke Mitchell had guilty knowledge of the corpse’s location.
The press repeatedly harped on the fact that the injuries to the corpse bore a resemblance to the injuries suffered decades earlier in the Black Dahlia case that was oft mentioned by rock star Marilyn Manson. The press informed the public that Luke Mitchell was an obsessed fan of Marilyn Manson but failed to point out that there was not one reference on Luke’s computer to the Black Dahlia and that the only Marilyn Manson CD found in Luke’s home was one that was purchased after the murder. The press repeatedly described Luke Mitchell as a devotee of Satan but failed to point out that the school book scribbling they repeatedly described as satanic was in fact a quotation from a very popular computer game.
His girlfriend had struggled valiantly suffering extensive defensive wounds and almost total exsanguination but Luke Mitchell had nary a scratch nor a single drop of blood on him.
Although it was publicly announced that the crime was murder not rape semen was found on the girlfriend’s body yet it was not from Luke Mitchell.
Meanwhile the police, prosecutor, press and public show not the slightest interest whatsoever in a male known to have been fond of the location where the body was found, known to have appeared disheveled at the time, known to have borne the next morning facial scratches for which there were absurd and ever-changing explanations and known to have penned an essay about having killed a girl within a week of the murder.
Ah the ever so fine niceties of the law: we will give you additional time to try to get a lawyer to represent you in a futile appeal but we won’t even question much less arrest or prosecute the facially scratched violence-prone druggie and sex-offender whose dna was found on the corpse.
What is the use of having dna databases if such evidence as semen found on a murder victim is ignored? What is the use of having advanced forensics if a corpse is allowed to remain out in the woods unprotected from overnight rains and morning dew that will clearly wash away evidence deposited by the attacker? What is the use of having juries if they accept ownership of a Marilyn Manson CD as proof of murder? What is the use of having guidelines for the questioning of a 15 year old youth if all judges do is mildly rebuke the police for their obvious excesses?
Clearly, the one lesson to be learned is that when the police want you they will not shift their focus elsewhere. Obtaining counsel may availeth naught but going without counsel is utterly absurd. The police, prosecutor and press have all railroaded Luke Mitchell and allowed a known sex offender to go un-prosecuted.
Of course, why on earth a 14 year old boy whose dna was not found at the crime scene was tried when the three males whose dna was found at the crime scene were never considered suspects was not considered by the court. Nor did the court consider the massive press coverage about Luke Mitchell's supposed Satanism or fascination with Marilyn Manson simply because a Manson CD given to him a week after the murder was found in his house.
Amidst all the palaver about an English court being allowed to undermine Scots Law it should perhaps be remembered that if the Luke Mitchell case is an example of what Scottish police, Scottish prosecutors, Scottish judges and Scottish juries can do, then I submit that at long last Scots Law should indeed be undermined.
For those of you requiring an introduction to the Luke Mitchell case suffice it for me to say that the Lothian and Borders Constabulary promptly decided that fourteen year old Luke Mitchell would be considered the sole suspect in the murder of his fourteen year old girlfriend. The police did not seem at all troubled by Luke Mitchell having no scratches and having left no dna at the crime scene. The police therefore decided to ignore the three males whose dna was left on, in or inconveniently close by the corpse despite the fact that the three males had chosen to adopt various actions such as leaving the area, giving rather unusual explanations for their scratches and altering their appearance.
Soundly condemned by the press, termed a devotee of Satan and Marilyn Manson and banned from attending school Luke Mitchell endured hours of police questioning without benefit of counsel. After trial under circus-like conditions wherein he was denied the use of dna experts, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to a minimum term of confinement of twenty years even though it was clear that the notoriety of his case meant that he would serve the full life sentence without ever being allowed parole. Countless appeals to the Scottish Courts availed him naught. Even his petition of Nobile Officium presented at the Court of Inner Sessions fell on deaf ears.
Finally, the English Supreme Court will be ordering his release since his being denied counsel at the initial interrogation has been ruled to be a denial of fundamental human rights protected by the European Union. While Scottish politicians are bemoaning the destruction of Scots Law, it is perhaps time that we should all rejoice that at long last common sense seems to be prevailing.
For those of you who find such matters to be of interest, there appears to have been no comment made by the sister of the homicide victim who soon thereafter married one of the men whose semen was found on the victim’s tee shirt and underwear.
An earlier posting on this case is herewith set forth for the convenience of the readers:
A Final Incompetence …
Their Lordships, the five Justices of the High Court of Criminal Appeals, formally severed Luke Mitchell’s appeal from the proceedings since he was not then represented by counsel. This was done so as to give him additional time with which to seek the advice of counsel but the justices formally advised Luke Mitchell they would expect any such advice of counsel to be consonant with a recognition that the present proceedings as continuing against appellant Nat Fraser declared the grounds of the appeal to be legally incompetent.
Oh what a fine nicety of the law! We are not now denying your appeal because you don’t have a lawyer and we are giving you time to go get a lawyer but its obvious you will never be able to actually get a lawyer since we are now formally announcing your appeal to be legally incompetent.
What an awful mess. At age 14, Luke Mitchell gallantly set forth in the night to search for his overdue 14 year old girlfriend. Each and every member of the small search party stated to police that Luke’s dog created a ruckus at a small cleft in the wall and only then did Luke Mitchell proceed to discover the naked and woefully bloody corpse of his girlfriend. After extensive and persistent police questioning the witnesses changed their recollections as to the dog having located the corpse rather than Luke Mitchell having done so. This of course gave the police, the prosecutor and the press the opportunity to repeatedly point out that Luke Mitchell had guilty knowledge of the corpse’s location.
The press repeatedly harped on the fact that the injuries to the corpse bore a resemblance to the injuries suffered decades earlier in the Black Dahlia case that was oft mentioned by rock star Marilyn Manson. The press informed the public that Luke Mitchell was an obsessed fan of Marilyn Manson but failed to point out that there was not one reference on Luke’s computer to the Black Dahlia and that the only Marilyn Manson CD found in Luke’s home was one that was purchased after the murder. The press repeatedly described Luke Mitchell as a devotee of Satan but failed to point out that the school book scribbling they repeatedly described as satanic was in fact a quotation from a very popular computer game.
His girlfriend had struggled valiantly suffering extensive defensive wounds and almost total exsanguination but Luke Mitchell had nary a scratch nor a single drop of blood on him.
Although it was publicly announced that the crime was murder not rape semen was found on the girlfriend’s body yet it was not from Luke Mitchell.
Meanwhile the police, prosecutor, press and public show not the slightest interest whatsoever in a male known to have been fond of the location where the body was found, known to have appeared disheveled at the time, known to have borne the next morning facial scratches for which there were absurd and ever-changing explanations and known to have penned an essay about having killed a girl within a week of the murder.
Ah the ever so fine niceties of the law: we will give you additional time to try to get a lawyer to represent you in a futile appeal but we won’t even question much less arrest or prosecute the facially scratched violence-prone druggie and sex-offender whose dna was found on the corpse.
What is the use of having dna databases if such evidence as semen found on a murder victim is ignored? What is the use of having advanced forensics if a corpse is allowed to remain out in the woods unprotected from overnight rains and morning dew that will clearly wash away evidence deposited by the attacker? What is the use of having juries if they accept ownership of a Marilyn Manson CD as proof of murder? What is the use of having guidelines for the questioning of a 15 year old youth if all judges do is mildly rebuke the police for their obvious excesses?
Clearly, the one lesson to be learned is that when the police want you they will not shift their focus elsewhere. Obtaining counsel may availeth naught but going without counsel is utterly absurd. The police, prosecutor and press have all railroaded Luke Mitchell and allowed a known sex offender to go un-prosecuted.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Casey Anthony and Experts
In today's testimony the prosecution inquired as to a forensic pathologists prior knowledge of the case and I think it is proper that the defense be permitted to employ experts who will have no preconceived notions. The failure of the defense attorneys to inform their expert of a possible drowning is not a fit matter of inquiry and the judge should never have allowed a question that implies lack of a belief in the client's version of events.
Compulsive liar who simply does not face the truth? Perhaps. She never revealed her being a half credit short of high school graduation to her family. Did this start at age 8 as a result of sexual molestation? I have no idea! So far, I've heard simply that she was a good mother when she was with her daughter, a good roommate, and a good sport who joined in the festivities when the turnout at her boyfriends club-night event was rather sparse. I've not heard any motive to rid herself of her daughter or take up a lifestyle of booze, boyfriends and nightclubs.
A compulsive liar is just as likely to leave a child in a hot car as any other harried mother. A compulsive liar is just as likely to be forgetful about a swimming pool ladder as any other harried mother. The defendant's father may indeed have misguided his daughter by playing on her fears of criminal prosecution for the drowning incident. Or she simply may have left the child in a hot car and gone just as blithely along ignoring reality of that as she did when she allowed her parents to plan a graduation party that would not be taking place.
Compulsive liar who simply does not face the truth? Perhaps. She never revealed her being a half credit short of high school graduation to her family. Did this start at age 8 as a result of sexual molestation? I have no idea! So far, I've heard simply that she was a good mother when she was with her daughter, a good roommate, and a good sport who joined in the festivities when the turnout at her boyfriends club-night event was rather sparse. I've not heard any motive to rid herself of her daughter or take up a lifestyle of booze, boyfriends and nightclubs.
A compulsive liar is just as likely to leave a child in a hot car as any other harried mother. A compulsive liar is just as likely to be forgetful about a swimming pool ladder as any other harried mother. The defendant's father may indeed have misguided his daughter by playing on her fears of criminal prosecution for the drowning incident. Or she simply may have left the child in a hot car and gone just as blithely along ignoring reality of that as she did when she allowed her parents to plan a graduation party that would not be taking place.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Section 8 Compliance Raids in Antelope Valley
The NY Times has an article today on the black activists suing in Los Angeles over the Section 8 Housing raids in the historically lily white Antelope valley wherein their is popular sentiment that the Section 8 housing assistance program is simply a block busting tool used to by the government to turn neighborhoods.
Whether it be fraud in section 8 housing applications in the Antelope Valley or excessive enforcement of building codes in Paducah, Kentucky to convert minority owned crack houses into homosexual owned art galleries all regulations and all enforcement programs will have effects on elements of the population deemed undesirable.
Being poor and black is not an excuse to commit fraud in a government housing program. Being a black owner of a crack house is not an excuse to be without running water and a sewage connection. A heterosexual crack dealer is deemed undesirable when the Paducah program favors homosexual property owners on the theory that homosexuals are traditionally more oriented to having home-based businesses and an active street life that enhances the community.
Paducah used housing regulations to get rid of crack dealers that happened to be heterosexual; Antelope Valley residents want to use Section 8 fraud detection raids as a way of getting rid of poor criminals who happen to be black. The goal is always the same, its the excuses that are always changing.
Whether it be fraud in section 8 housing applications in the Antelope Valley or excessive enforcement of building codes in Paducah, Kentucky to convert minority owned crack houses into homosexual owned art galleries all regulations and all enforcement programs will have effects on elements of the population deemed undesirable.
Being poor and black is not an excuse to commit fraud in a government housing program. Being a black owner of a crack house is not an excuse to be without running water and a sewage connection. A heterosexual crack dealer is deemed undesirable when the Paducah program favors homosexual property owners on the theory that homosexuals are traditionally more oriented to having home-based businesses and an active street life that enhances the community.
Paducah used housing regulations to get rid of crack dealers that happened to be heterosexual; Antelope Valley residents want to use Section 8 fraud detection raids as a way of getting rid of poor criminals who happen to be black. The goal is always the same, its the excuses that are always changing.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
AF 447 The real causes...
Sure one can blame the bean counters for throwing up roadblocks to the replacement of the pitot tubes but no one really knows if the new pitot tubes had they been installed would not have iced over also.
One can blame a pilot for taking a rest break but I'd sure prefer an well rested pilot be at the controls during the later and more demanding portions of the flight. It is certainly clear that the pilots in the cockpit for fully qualified and experienced.
The real cause is that the pilots were simply not capable of deciding which instruments to rely on and which to mistrust. The pilots were simply too dependent on a mind set of trusting their instruments and relying on a computer to keep the airplane from stalling. Once it went into Alternate Law they lost Angle of Attack protection.
The airspeed was indicated as very low. They should have rejected that data but didn't. However, that is forgivable. They added power and with the engines slung low under the wings of course they shot up real fast into a nose up position and gained altitude.
The pilot may have become distracted by a non-silenceable stall warning horn. Well, its a critical situation and its probably good that it can't be turned off. The trouble is that any pilot knows to get the nose down instantly and to add power in or near a stall attitude. Yet the pilot kept the nose up and allowed it to go even higher and higher and although power was initially set to TOGA, they quite promptly lowered it to flight idle and although it takes time for a jet engine to spool down, they were soon at fifty-five percent power when they should have stayed at Take Off/Go Around power.
Even when the airspeed suddenly indicated a more comforting value of 215 they were keeping the nose up and lowering power.
Its simple. Pilots who've done nothing but input commands into a computer were unable to suddenly start flying the plane. They didn't know what to accept and what to reject. They didn't know that buffeting in a low speed stall and high speed stall is pretty much the same thing. They didn't know to lower the nose and add power. They were overwhelmed by a flurry of error messages and unreliable instruments when the static air port was iced over and the computer put the nose up but soon detected too great a discrepancy between the data from the two pitot tubes and suddenly turned the plane over to the pilots without warning.
Pilots who deal only with computers and don't learn to actually fly the airplanes become too reliant on instruments and don't know how to actually fly the airplane themselves. They had three minutes to learn how to fly, but they seem to have forgotten the lesson every student pilot learns on his third flight: lower the nose immediately and add full power immediately.
One can blame a pilot for taking a rest break but I'd sure prefer an well rested pilot be at the controls during the later and more demanding portions of the flight. It is certainly clear that the pilots in the cockpit for fully qualified and experienced.
The real cause is that the pilots were simply not capable of deciding which instruments to rely on and which to mistrust. The pilots were simply too dependent on a mind set of trusting their instruments and relying on a computer to keep the airplane from stalling. Once it went into Alternate Law they lost Angle of Attack protection.
The airspeed was indicated as very low. They should have rejected that data but didn't. However, that is forgivable. They added power and with the engines slung low under the wings of course they shot up real fast into a nose up position and gained altitude.
The pilot may have become distracted by a non-silenceable stall warning horn. Well, its a critical situation and its probably good that it can't be turned off. The trouble is that any pilot knows to get the nose down instantly and to add power in or near a stall attitude. Yet the pilot kept the nose up and allowed it to go even higher and higher and although power was initially set to TOGA, they quite promptly lowered it to flight idle and although it takes time for a jet engine to spool down, they were soon at fifty-five percent power when they should have stayed at Take Off/Go Around power.
Even when the airspeed suddenly indicated a more comforting value of 215 they were keeping the nose up and lowering power.
Its simple. Pilots who've done nothing but input commands into a computer were unable to suddenly start flying the plane. They didn't know what to accept and what to reject. They didn't know that buffeting in a low speed stall and high speed stall is pretty much the same thing. They didn't know to lower the nose and add power. They were overwhelmed by a flurry of error messages and unreliable instruments when the static air port was iced over and the computer put the nose up but soon detected too great a discrepancy between the data from the two pitot tubes and suddenly turned the plane over to the pilots without warning.
Pilots who deal only with computers and don't learn to actually fly the airplanes become too reliant on instruments and don't know how to actually fly the airplane themselves. They had three minutes to learn how to fly, but they seem to have forgotten the lesson every student pilot learns on his third flight: lower the nose immediately and add full power immediately.
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