Killer Luke Mitchell: Did Robber & Violent Con Scott C Forbes Give Scammer & Fraudster Sandra Lean Access To Sensitive & Confidential Court Documents When He Was Undertaking “Training” With Graham Mann Solicitors (Part 1)

Sonia Poulton & MOJO Scotland

On 14th of April 2020 Sonia Poulton tweeted here about abuser and con-artist Scott C Forbes, and referred to him as a “lawyer”.

Scott C Forbes has never provided any proof he has ever been a “lawyer”, and according to the Law Society he has never been entered with them, ever!

Tap on the button below to read a Sunday Mail article from 2012, by Russell Findlay on Scott C Forbes;

In a now deleted tweet, which was originally published here, Scott C Forbes also made the following claim;

….. im actually laughing.

Dr Lean can confirm I was lukes lawyer and part of a legal team for 5 years.

Let them play there wee boys games if it amuses them #laugh#last#laugh#longest.

Reproduced tweet by Scott Forbes dated 3rd of April 2019

Below is a screenshot of his original tweet;

A 2010/11 online annual report by MOJO (Miscarriage of Justice organisation) Scotland stated;

We also had a Trainee Lawyer, Scott Forbes, working with the Project 3 days per week.

Scott was instrumental in investigating two cases, Mr I and Mr P, which resulted in Mr P’s case going back to the SCCRC for review.

Mr I’s case is ongoing.

The project was able to secure a 2 year supervised traineeship for Scott with Graham Mann Solicitors; Paul and Scott have been a huge asset to the Organisation and in taking the Projects aims and objectives forward.

Excerpts from pages 2 and 3 here

Mr I’s case appears to have been murderer Luke Mitchell’s.

Graham Mann Solicitors & Sandra Lean

What MOJO’s annual report did not mention, is that around the time Scott C Forbes was apparently “working 3 days per week” with Graham Mann solicitors, Sandra Lean claimed she had obtained “a key” to “an office”.

Sandra Lean also claimed she had gained access to murderer Luke Mitchell’s case files, which she also claimed she had not seen before.

Around this time, Scott C Forbes contacted a “confidential hotline number” and spoke “at length” to a former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) police officer.

Scott C Forbes was said to have “threatened” said former RUC officer with legal action, apparently because “as a prospective lawyer he didn’t want his name all over the Internet” (Read more here).

Could the reason Scott C Forbes “didn’t want his name all over the Internet” have anything to do with him giving Sandra Lean access to sensitive and confidential case files, which he was not authorised to do?

The “confidential hotline number” was set up around the time murderer Luke Mitchell, and his chief enabler Sandra Lean, and their innocence fraud public relations spin campaign was being exposed (Read more here).

BBC Frontline Scotland: The Devil’s Own

Scott C Forbes has chosen to continue to lie about his late “friend” Mark Kane, and concoct no end of false, malicious and cruel stories about him.

In 2007 he appeared on a BBC Frontline Scotland TV show called “The Devil’s Own”, in which Scott C Forbes alleged he saw Mark Kane the day after psychopath Luke Mitchell had committed his murder.

In January 2008 Scott C Forbes made a “sworn statement” for Donald Findlay, in which he pretended he had seen Mark Kane with scratches all over his face (Read more here).

To date, he has chosen to hide his statement.

The BBC reported on Scott C Forbes as follows;

But John Beckett QC, for the Crown, revealed that police investigations cast doubt on what Mr Forbes had told solicitors and a BBC Frontline Scotland programme in May last year

Mr Forbes had alleged that Mr Kane, a student at Newbattle Abbey College at the time of Jodi’s murder, had written an essay on “killing a girl in the woods”.

He also claimed that a teacher at the college could confirm this

Mr Beckett said: “When this came to light the Crown had police take a statement from the lecturer which confirmed Kane wrote no such essay at all.”

Mr Beckett also said Mr Forbes had told Mr Kane to co-operate “and we will get £50,000 from the newspapers”.

Excerpts from a 13th of February 2008 BBC article here

There has been nothing to support any of Scott C Forbes allegations about Mark Kane, and Donald Findlay did not use his allegations as part of any appeal.

Mark Kane passed away on 16th May 2018, therefore he cannot defend himself against Scott C Forbes warped minded lies and false allegations, which have grown over time and become more outrageous and unbelievable.

If Scott C Forbes has nothing to hide, why doesn’t he publish his statement?

Mark Kane’s Truth

Norma, Mark Kane’s mother, spoke out here after her son’s name was mentioned by Scott C Forbes during a two part 2021 channel 5 TV show, which promoted murderer Luke Mitchell’s propaganda.

Among his wealth of lies and concoctions, Scott C Forbes falsely claimed that Mark Kane posted on “blogs” and “Facebook pages”..

Mark Kane posted on an internet website in an attempt to defend himself from the lies being told and sold about him by Scott C Forbes, and abuser, charlatan and fraudster Sandra Lean.

In August 2014 Mark Kane posted on an internet forum here.

Years laters, Scott C Forbes made reference to this in a tweet, in which he referred to the forum as the “Justice Forum”

Mark Kane chose to post using the name Mr.Rabbit because of the continued abuse, threats and harassment he had been on the receiving end of, in the main, by Scott C Forbes and Sandra Lean.

Mark Kane’s post is reproduced in full below;

Sandra Lean is a bully as well as a liar. I was one of the so called accused, not a shred of evidence against me except a statement from a man who has a severe criminal record that has since came to light. I knew all about it from the start I knew it would eventually catch up with him and Sandra Lean. Anytime I contacted her on the ‘Luke Mitchell’ is innocent website she got right onto her cronies and I would receive death threats over the phone, be visited n public places by he man with the long and hash criminal record who would make threats against and my family. He even went to my mothers door, she is her Sixties and disabled  just to show me she could be got at! What type of human being does such a thing? He assaulted me in full view of half a dozen people after I had left a comment on Ms.Leans web pag. All of this I reported to the police. Just to set a couple of things straight I never had big cuts on my face the day after the murder I had a tiny scratch is all, he did not drive me to the police station the day after and he never said what amount of money we would get but he did say we would get money if we spoke to the press and get a wee holiday out of it. I never wanted anything to do with it it was sick, the man bullied me. He got a holiday out of it as the daily record accidentally used his name as the suspect he got just over a grand in damages. I have never received anything for the mental anguish myself and family have been through. I think he was merely a puppet in Sandra Leans games which have now came to a head but I’m still stuck with totally untrue accusations against me and haven’t even received a sorry let alone anything else. I knew about his criminal past but I never mentioned it, I never spoke to reporters, which he wanted me to. He used to make jokes about it and him and him only ever brought it up as you know it was nearly 4 years before he came forward after a falling out between us, the police didn’t take him serious and he gave a high court statement Han is all lies and I have many witness that can back that up. He bullied me after he had went to the police, trying to keep me in line and watch who I spoke to but I just didn’t want anything to do with it god I wasn’t even sure he was telling the truth about talking to the police cause like I said he used to make jokes about it. If they haughty they were right then how come whenever I questioned Sandra lean she would get right on to him to go and do her dirty work which was harass me. I have a load of witness to prove everything he said is a lie that’s why I was never worried. I just think it’s shocking that a man can take half truths, 3rd hand stories and just lies then go to the police with this rubbish and before you know it my name is on the 6 o’clock news, in newspapers giving totally false information about me and iv never received any type of closure or apology or anything from the people involved. Maybe karma has just taken it’s time he’s been exposed for the violent criminal who done jail for armed robbery and Sandra Lean, not for the first time, is wrong. I went through hell and back because of them but I’m not going to waste my life looking for revenge I knew in time it would all come out. Here’s to the innocent among us, don’t let the b……..s grind you down.

Sandra Lean is also a “bully and a liar” and has been attempting to dupe anyone who will listen to her for many years.

Similar to Scott C Forbes, Sandra Lean also appears to possess an inability to admit when she is wrong and will make up no end of excuses, lies and nonsense in order to confuse and dupe anyone who is not aware of the actual facts of the case.

The deceptive and malicious psychological tactics Sandra Lean chooses to use to spin her and the murderers false narrative, has been see through for many years.

The “Luke Mitchell is innocent” website, referred to by Mark Kane, was run by un-convicted baby killer and sexual deviant Billy Middleton, who Sandra Lean went on to have a romantic relationship with and eventually went into partnership with (Read more here),

To date, it is still not known what Sandra Lean and Billy Middleton did with the money and donations they received via their now defunct Scottish charity (Read more here).

It is also not known where the “donations” from the profits of Sandra Lean’s second book are going, as the “Long Road to Justice” organisation she refers to in her second book does not exist! (Read more here).

People were still buying Sandra Lean’s first discredited book No Smoke, even though she had lied (Again) and said it is was “currently unavailable”.

Sandra Lean claimed here on the 4th October 2019;

…No Smoke was published more than 12 years ago, before I had access to all of the case papers and I haven’t read it/referenced it for many years.

The book was based largely on court transcripts, which were all I had at the time. I’ve contacted the publisher today to ask for the book to be withdrawn.

Excerpts above taken from an internet forum here

When Sandra Lean published her first book No Smoke, she did not have access to any court transcripts of murderer Luke Mitchell’s trial, or of the other murderers she wrote about.

Instead of choosing to publish all transcripts of murderer Luke Mitchell’s recorded police interviews, along with a copy of his 22 page written witness statement (made on the 1st July 2003), Sandra Lean has chosen to continue to publish, out of context snippets from statements and titbits from news articles and trial transcripts.

To date, murderer Luke Mitchell, Sandra Lean and Scott C Forbes have also chosen to hide the 200 page Scottish criminal cases review commissions statement of reasons, as to why they decided he was guilty and would not be referring his conviction for appeal.

Scott C Forbes and Sandra Lean’s behaviour and actions, especially since they appeared in a TV show in early 2021, have been, and continue to be, abusive, malicious, cruel and deplorable.

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