Luke Mitchell

Yeah folks, more bad news from the courts for Luke Mitchell. His appeal to have the Cadder decision regarding a suspects right to counsel during police questioning was denied.

You all remember Luke Mitchell don't you. Arrested for the murder of his 14 year old girlfriend despite his dna not being at the crime scene and there being no forensic evidence linking him to the scene at all. He was observed shortly after the murder sitting on a fence in a calm manner and bearing no scratches, blood or disarranged clothing.

Yet, three males whose DNA is either on, in or inconveniently close to the corpse were never arrested or even questioned as suspects despite their attempts to alter their appearance, the scratches they bore following the murder and the ever-changing stories they related.

Luke Mitchell was promptly booted out of school, termed a Satanist for some scribbling on his schoolbook that was a quotation from the best selling video game at the time, depicted as a devotee of the Black Dahlia murder despite the fact that he had never heard of it.

Life with minimum confinement of twenty years. And as they say in UK prisons, the guards are constantly seeing to it that he is "shaking it rough" which means doing what in the USA would be referred to as very hard time.

While the UK tabloids carry the usual mouthings about the over one hundred thousand pounds the appeals have cost there does not seem to be any comparison of that amount to a forensic tarp which might have covered the body on rainy night and thus preserved forensic evidence.