The dock identification not mentioned in Innocents Betrayed

-

 


From Innocents Betrayed page 129:

Lorraine Fleming’s dock identification was particularly outrageous. Asked by the prosecution QC if she could identify, in the court, the person she saw that day, she said: “Not sure.” Encouraged by the same QC to say if she could recognise someone in court who resembled him, perhaps from a different angle or perspective, she replied: “Yes, but his head is completely different.”. Unbelievably, that was accepted as a positive identification.

It was not witness Lorraine Fleming who said "Yes, but his head is completely different", it was Rosemary Walsh (transcript page 492, 02/12/04).

Lorraine Fleming did believe she could positively identify Luke in court - transcript page 335 (01/12/04)

Asked by the Advocate Depute if she had had a chance to look around, she responds "yes".

And do you recognise the person you saw again? - yes

Where is he? (incomprehensible)

Do you mean between the two gentlemen in the white shirts? - Yeah

Did he still look the same as he did that day? - His eyes do

The witness went on to say that his hair looked different and that he may have gained some weight. 


As well as the dock identification in Innocents Betrayed being attached to the wrong witness, the positive identification (whether the witness was correct or not) was completely omitted altogether.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Luke Mitchell campaign - how have things deteriorated to this?

-
Image
  There was a time when campaigners fighting the claimed wrongful conviction of Luke Mitchell raged against the vilification of a 14 year old boy, who they shouted, had not been proven to have committed the crime. Their fight fueled by the abhorrent public denigration of an individual, by a media who cared not for facts, only sensationalism. While the campaign has evolved from the 2021 documentary, in to a petition and protests - recent online presence from campaign leaders, one in particular, seems to be well represented in the screen shots below.  This online torrent of personal attacks appears to come as a response to campaigners highlighting discrepancies between newly released transcripts, and freedom of information responses - and 'case facts' provided by the two main campaign leaders.  Some of the people asking questions are individuals who have dedicated the past few years of their lives to fighting for the truth and believing that a miscarriage of justice had occurred.
Read more

The knife in the skip at Home farm WAS forensically examined and documented

-
Image
An article in the Scottish sun 20/11/22, titled 'I found a knife in a skip near where school girl Jodi Jones was murdered - before it vanished', states: " Lawyer Scott Forbes, part of Mitchell’s legal team, said: This is the real missing knife."  “Like so much of the evidence, it was either destroyed or went missing if it didn’t fit the police narrative.” A car mechanic from the Garage also said  “When I learned it wasn’t documented, it raised my suspicions the police may have tried to conceal the discovery.” Article Link:   https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/9795271/knife-skip-jodi-jones-murdered/ Scott Forbes discusses the knife in the skip in an interview on YouTube channel Premeditated patter, 01/01/23. He says:  "Recently we've found that they took swabs from that knife, but never tested it" Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Qkg7e7Noo&t=284s (24.54) But the knife WAS documented and tested. Below are two Freedom of information response
Read more

The Green shirt and the parka anomaly (excerpts from 02/12/04 transcript)

-
Image
Innocents Betrayed page 222: Where did the dozens of witnesses who saw Luke in a German army shirt go? Their statements were never released to the defence and they were never called to give evidence.  Innocents Betrayed (By Dr Sandra Lean) page 127:  Just before six o’clock, Luke was identified by people who knew him, sitting on a wall at the end of his street, 400 – 500 metres further along the Newbattle Road, wearing completely different clothes (baggy jeans, green bomber jacket with orange lining and distinctive, light coloured snowboarding boots).  02/12/04 transcript  AH, one of the three boys who saw Luke at around 6pm at the entrance to Newbattle Abbey crescent on Monday June 30th 2003, describes the clothing he believes Luke was wearing: In his first statement to Police he described: "Dark blue baggy jeans and a dark green shirt...it was definitely a shirt, not a jacket. I think it was buttoned-up and I couldn't see anything underneath it. It was down to the waist of
Read more