Luke Mitchell trial transcript/case discussion

  Page 125 of Innocents Betrayed:  Mrs Bryson picked out Luke’s photo as “very like” the person she saw on the afternoon of June 30th, even though she was clear that she did not see the face of that person. What do the transcripts say? This same statement appears to be read out during page 183 of Mrs Bryson's evidence:  "Image 4 is very, very like the male I saw at the top of the path". The witness also goes on to say (and this is not mentioned in Innocents Betrayed) In regards to the photograph - " It looked like a person who was there that day, yes" She is questioned regarding pointing out the photograph showed to her by Police And did you point that photograph out to Police? - I did, yes And why did you point that person out to the Police, who did, do you think the person was? - I took it to be the person I saw that day She also said " I'm sure as I can be that it is the same male"   https://lukemitchelltrialtranscripts.blogspot.com/2024/06/andr

  Page 227&228  Innocents Betrayed "The second was the claim that the crime was not sexual in that Jodi was not raped or sexually assaulted. It comes as something of a surprise, then, to discover that on 26th October 2004 (about a month before the trial got properly underway), a report was made by a professor of forensic medicine regarding both of these points (*Black Dahlia and sexual assault ). This report stated that there were “no forensically significant similarities between the injury patterns in these two victims” ( *Elizabeth Short and Jodi Jones ) aside from the fact that they were “both apparently sexually motivated homicides of young women with post-mortem mutilations of the body with a sharp instrument." Continued..."This report added another piece of significant information regarding the sexual element of the crime. The whole police and prosecution approach was based on an understanding that proof of a sexual element would, of necessity, be what most of

The closing speech of Luke Mitchell's trial, delivered by Advocate Depute Alan Turnbull on 18th January 2005, provides some insight in to the directions and instructions presented to the jury in regards to the deliberation of their verdict. (Full transcript will be uploaded as soon as possible, along with others - please note, this just part of the closing speech and given as an example) “ I’ll explain to you what evidence the Crown say you ought to accept. I’ll explain to you why you ought to accept that evidence and I’ll explain to you why, if you do accept that evidence , it ought to be returning a verdict of guilty on the murder charge." "Now in undertaking that evidence I’ll necessarily have to examine that evidence, I'll have to discuss it, I’ll have to analyse it, and in doing that of course, I’ll have to rely on my notes that I took at the time, on memory, my own understanding of the evidence. And when I discuss the evidence with you, my intention is t