With every new victim, his predatory skills were sharpened, and he became craftier at luring his targets to the metaphorical stove with the giant pot of water
Laura Wightman and Luke Mitchell
Target/Girlfriend Kimberley Thomson
At around 44:35 during a 1st May 2023 youtube video titled keeping the record straight scammer Sandra Lean stated,
The previous relationship with Kimberley
They had a holiday romance
She did come to see him in the January
The December to January of 2003
Before he met Jodi
And that was the end of the contact
Sandra Lean
This is yet another of Sandra Lean’s bare faced lies!
Sadistic killer Luke Mitchell visited Kimberly Thomson on Valentine’s Day in February 2003 and was due to physically see her again on the 5th July 2003.
Luke Mitchell continued to give Kimberley Thomson the impression that he was her boyfriend, right up until he committed his murder on 30th June 2003.
A December 2004 BBC news story reads,
Kimberley Thomson told the jury she had been the girlfriend of Luke Mitchell, the youth accused of murdering Jodi.
Miss Thomson said that when she read about Jodi’s death and the fact that Jodi had been Mr Mitchell’s girlfriend, she was annoyed.
She said: “I was upset. I knew he had obviously been cheating on me”
When asked how she would describe her relationship with Mr Mitchell, she said:
“Boyfriend and girlfriend.”
Mr Mitchell visited Kenmore in the autumn of 2002 and Miss Thomson stayed at the Mitchell home in Dalkeith from Boxing Day until just after New Year.
The accused also visited her on St Valentine’s Day 2003.
There were also telephone records and text messages which supported the fact that Luke Mitchell was giving Kimberley Thomson this impression.
Another media story reads,
The judges were informed (Luke) Mitchell told police investigating the murder he had not spoken to Kimberley since January 2003, but records showed 79 calls between then and the end of June.
There was also a Valentine’s Day visit.
Just two days before her murder, Jodi left (Luke) Mitchell’s house, by taxi, about 10pm.
After that there was a series of long telephone calls, totalling more than three hours.
Mr Beckett said it was an example of how (Luke) Mitchell was prepared to lie, even in the face of known evidence.
Scammer Sandra Lean went on to state in her keeping the record straight YouTube video,
So whatever kind of relationship he was having with Kimberley
After that was not sexual
Sandra Lean
The video then played a sound bite by YouTuber What They Found, who said,
Jodi at one point believed that Luke was cheating on her when confiding with best friend Kirsten Ford
What They Found
Sadistic Killer Luke Mitchell Was Targeting Numerous Girls All At Once
Sandra Lean replied in response to the above statement,
That makes me very sad
There was a point at which Jodi wondered if Luke was cheating on her
Not with Kimberley
Somebody else
And do you know what made her wonder about that
Her mum suggested it
There was another good friend that, female friend, that they went about with
All the time
And her mum suggested that maybe Luke had something going with the friend as well
Jo, eh Jodi approached both of them
They were both absolutely horrified
And reassured her that that was absolutely not the case
Sandra Lean
Target/Girlfriend Laura Wightman
Luke Mitchell was “cheating on” Jodi Jones with numerous other girls and in reality Sandra Lean had no idea why Jodi Jones “wondered if Luke was cheating on her”.
The “goodfriend” referred to by Sandra Lean was Laura Wightman.
Kirsten Ford, one of Jodi Jones closest friends, spoke to reporter Jane Hamilton about Laura Wightman and Luke Mitchell “cheating” on Jodi Jones.
Jane Hamilton’s story read in part,
Months before she was killed, the 14-year-old told closest pal Kirsten Ford: ‘Luke has all these knives in his bedroom. Isn’t that weird?’
Last night, Kirsten, now 16, said: ‘Jodi was disturbed by it. She wouldn’t have said it otherwise.
But only weeks into the relationship, Jodi became worried about (Luke) Mitchell’s close friendship with Laura Wightman, a girl he would later take to her graveside.
“Laura was with Luke a lot and once Jodi heard that he might have been cheating on her but I think she spoke to him and they sorted it out”
When he interviewed the killer on the 14th of August 2003, during a section 14 interview, detective constable George Thomson asked Luke Mitchell about whether or not he had “two-timed” Jodi with other girls – this included Laura Wightman.
As was usual for Luke Mitchell – he bare faced lied!
A BBC article stated;
Detective Constable George Thomson carried out the interviews with Luke Mitchell in August 2003, when the boy was just 15.
“During the time you were going out with Jodi did you see other girls?
By the time of this meeting killer Luke Mitchell and Laura Wightman were known to be having a sexual relationship, as is clear from the following excerpts by reporter Maggie Barry;
KILLER Luke Mitchell was a violent thug – but girls flocked to be his lover.
The teenager’s reputation as a moody rebel captured the hearts of girls in Dalkeith.
But behind his mask, (Luke) Mitchell was a woman-hater who tried to force his lovers to have sex at the point of a knife.
Within days of Jodi’s murder he had replaced her with another girl.
Jodi had been unaware when she began dating (Luke)Mitchell that he already had a girlfriend who looked “almost identical”.
Mitchell conned both girls into thinking their relationship was special and exclusive.
He introduced her to cannabis, she got a lip piercing and had sex with him.
Within weeks of Jodi’s death, (Luke) Mitchell was having sex with one of her best friends.
Sadistic killer Luke Mitchell (right) with “girlfriend” Laura Wightman (left) on 3rd September 2003
When he was banned from Jodi’s funeral, (Luke) Mitchell took his new girlfriend to her graveside knowing it would attract attention.
The blonde teenager clutched a red rose as she stood, wearing a Nirvana T-shirt, beside (Luke) Mitchell.
Ever the showman, (Luke) Mitchell knelt down to comfort her as she wept while reading cards and tributes from Jodi’s classmates.
Sadistic, Sexual Deviant Luke Mitchell Tagetted, Conned & Abused Many Girls
Laura Wightman appears to have made two police witness statements, one in July 2003 and one in September 2004.
It also appears it was sometime before the killers trial that Laura Wightman became “estranged” from Luke Mitchell, as was reported by Lucy Bannerman;
…one friend sided with (Luke) Mitchell forming an intimate relationship with him in the aftermath of the killing
Despite her initial loyalty, she and (Luke) Mitchell became estranged and the 15-year-old was later diagnosed with a severe depressive disorder, exacerbated by the heavy use of cannabis and the trauma of her friends murder.
Increasing doubts over (Luke) Mitchell’s innocence may have contributed to her condition.
It also seems that Laura Wightman was exempt from giving evidence during killer Luke Mitchell’s trial after being diagnosed with a “severe depressive disorder”.
Target/Girlfriend Kara Van Null
Sadistic killer Luke Mitchell appears to have targeted Kara Van Null around the same time he targeted Jodi Jones.
It is not known if Luke Mitchell ever told Laura Wightman about Kara Van Null or about any of the other girls he had targeted.
However reporter Grace McLean’s following article on Kara Van Null told of how he had also attacked Kara with a knife to her throat in the lead up to his murder;
A teenager last night told how killer Luke Mitchell held a knife to her throat just a month before he killed and mutilated girlfriend Jodi Jones.
(Luke) Mitchell, then only 14 years old, pulled on a balaclava, grabbed Kara van Nuil from behind and warned her not to move as he pressed the blade to her neck.
Last night she said:
“I was absolutely terrified. He was so strong. I didn’t hear him coming. He just came up behind me, grabbed me around the neck with one arm and held the knife with the other.
‘He told me: “Move and you are f***ing dead”.’
Miss van Nuil, now 17, met (Luke) Mitchell at the Army Cadet HQ in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, when she joined his cadet unit in February, 2002.
They started dating a few weeks later, even though (Luke) Mitchell was already going out with Jodi and seeing another girl, Kimberley Thomson, in Perthshire.
Miss van Nuil told how she was at first mesmerised by (Luke) Mitchell and how he wooed her with romantic text messages.
But she brought the relationship to an end after he followed her into the cadet hut one night and threatened her with the knife.
She told the Scottish Daily Mail: ‘
‘He used to wear a balaclava and pull it up over his head like a hat.
‘We were at cadets in May when I went into the hut on my own. The instructors were out having a cigarette with the other cadets. I was messing about with the blackboard and I didn’t hear Luke coming but there was suddenly an arm around my neck.
I got a glimpse of him as I looked back and he had pulled his balaclava over his face. He then put a knife to my throat and said I would be dead if I moved an inch.
‘I was really scared and couldn’t move.
He was so strong. I couldn’t move my arms but I kept nipping his knees with my fingernails and begging him to let me go. He kept me like that for about a minute.
‘When he put the knife down I turned to face him and he said,
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
He tried to pretend it was a joke but my neck was red and I was genuinely scared. I was crying my eyes out.’
(Luke) Mitchell never returned to cadets after the attack. A month later he strangled 14-year-old Jodi and cut her throat.
Miss van Nuil regrets not telling her parents Angela, 39, and Bill, 55, about the attack until after the murder.
She said: ‘I never knew Jodi but when I found out Luke was her boyfriend I knew straight away that he had done it. I told my dad what happened in the cadet hut and he called the police.
‘They came around and took hours of statements but I was never called to court’
‘I’m so relieved – I couldn’t have faced him in the court. I’m so sorry for what happened to Jodi. When it first happened, I used to feel such guilt and think “that could have been me”.’
Miss van Nuil, of Gorebridge, Midlothian, said: ‘We never met anywhere but cadets, so I only saw him on Monday and Wednesday nights – I suppose because he was going out with Jodi.
‘One of my friends said he had five girls on the go but I didn’t care because I was crazy about him. He was so polite. I suspected he might have been a bit of a geek. But he always sent me lovely text messages.’
But Miss van Nuil said she also saw flashes of his temper: ‘One time he was on the shooting range and got told off by one of the instructors. All of a sudden he shouted something, threw down his gun and stormed off.
‘There were other times, too. If someone so much as criticised him, he would lose his temper and shout and swear at them.’ After the knife attack, she dumped (Luke) Mitchell.
But two days after he was first questioned about Jodi’s murder, Miss van Nuil saw him walking down her street. She said: ‘I was looking out the window. He was parading around like a cockerel. His friends all came out and started hugging him as if he was a hero.
I was terrified. I hid behind the curtain, shaking, and hoped he would not see me.’
Last night Miss Van Nuil broke down in tears on hearing the verdict.
By Grace McLean for the Daily Mail article dated 22nd January 2005 – Source here
Target Kimberley Tait
Reporter Lucy Bannerman made reference to another girl called Kimberley, who had also been threatened by Luke Mitchell with a knife after refusing “to sleep” with him;
Another fling ended on a more threatening note, with another West Lothian girl, Kimberley Tait, claiming (Luke) Mitchell once pulled a knife on her after she refused to sleep with him.
(Luke) Mitchell claimed the knife incident was only a joke.
Another 14 Year Old Girl & Her 5 Month Relationship With Killer Luke Mitchell Where He Also Threatened Her With A Knife In The Lead Up To His Murder
The following article by Chris Mooney refers to another 14 year old target of Luke Mitchell’s, who was also threatened by him with one of his knives;
A FORMER girlfriend of Luke Mitchell has told how he held a knife to her throat and threatened: “Dont move . . . or Ill gut you.”
Just months before he stabbed Jodi Jones to death, (Luke) Mitchell grabbed the girl and pressed his prized Swiss Army knife against the frightened 14-year-olds neck.
The terrifying incident was just one example of (Luke) Mitchells aggressive and unpredictable behaviour which disturbed his friends.
The pretty 14-year-old, who dated (Luke) Mitchell for about five months in 2003, told how the teenage killer pounced on her in a community hall in the Dalkeith area.
The girl – who asked to remain anonymous – was walking alone through the hall, where the pair attended a youth club together, when he grabbed her from behind.
He held the knife to her throat as he dragged her into a side room.
“I didnt know if he was joking around or not to begin with,” she said.
“He said: Dont move or Ill gut you. At first I thought he was just mucking about, but then I started to feel threatened.
“I was sore round my neck, it was bright red afterwards. He had grabbed me round the neck with his arm and held the knife at my throat, saying he was going to cut me and stuff like that.
“I was nipping his arm to get him off me and after a couple of minutes he let me go. I went outside and just tried to ignore him, but then he came out as if it was all a laugh and said sorry.
“There was no reason for him to do it. He just pulled the knife from his pocket and grabbed me. I thought it was really strange.”
Soon after the incident, in May, 2003, the girl ended the fledgling relationship – just a month before (Luke) Mitchell killed Jodi.
She broke things off after increasingly seeing a darker side to his personality. The final straw came when a friend told her (Luke) Mitchell was seeing another girl – who she is now sure was Jodi.
It now appears (Luke) Mitchell was seeing at least three different girls at the same time.
The murder trial jury heard that the teenage killer had also been seeing Kim Thomson, a 15-year-old from Kenmore, Perthshire, who looked strikingly like Jodi.
(Like) Mitchell had stayed in touch with Kim, who considered him as her boyfriend, after meeting her on holiday in the summer of 2002.
The ex-girlfriend who (Luke) Mitchell threatened with a knife told the Evening News she had initially found him charming, attractive and “basically a nice bloke”.
The pair were both 14 and went to the same youth club.
“When I first saw him, everybody in the room was chatting and we started talking – asking whats your name? and that sort of thing,” she said.
“We got each others phone numbers and started texting each other quite a lot. He was good-looking and I liked talking to him. I thought he was really nice.”
The teenager followed the same goth-style fashion as (Luke) Mitchell at the time, but shrugged it off as a fad and changed her image as she got older. She said they had got on well for a while, but then things had started to change.
“He sometimes showed a side that wasnt him. He was quite aggressive to me and to other people,” she added.
“He was really bad-tempered and he was totally unpredictable. He didnt want to be told what to do. I knew he carried weapons with him and he had a Swiss Army knife. I did wonder why he had it, but I never questioned him at all.”
The ex-girlfriend said shed had little contact with (Luke) Mitchell since they broke up, but that he had threatened her friends when he saw them in the street.
She added: “When I heard he was a suspect I knew he must have been going out with Jodi when he was seeing me.
“I was really upset when I heard what he was supposed to have done.
“At first, I never thought he could have done it. But, as all the stuff started to come together, I started to think it was possible, that he could do this, because of the way he acted and what hed done to me.”
Excerpts by Chris Mooney’s article for Edinburgh evening news dated 21st January 2005
The Other Younger Kimberley Thomson
In reality killer Luke Mitchell appears to have been targeting and abusing a minimum of 5-6 other girls, as well as Jodi Jones.
He also targeted another girl called Kimberley Thomson.
This Kimberley is believed to have been 2-3 years younger than Kimberley Thomson from Kenmore, Perthshire.
In 2021 Kimberley made the following Internet post;
I was one of 3 girls he was seeing at the time, unbeknown to us of course, including Jodi.
1 blatant lie I keep hearing is that he didn’t have a parka jacket before the incident. YES HE DID.
And he carried his knives in it and bragged about it…
Killer Luke Mitchell’s Violent Nature & Knife Attacks Increased Before He Committed His Murder
Killer Luke Mitchell’s knife attacks on girls are reported to have started when he was 12 years old, as is evidenced by Kenny Farquharson in the below excerpts;
When he was 12, (Luke) Mitchell had used a knife to threaten the daughter of a family who were guests in the Mitchell house.
He had climbed onto her bed, held the knife to her throat and asked for a kiss.
Tap on the button below to read a TIMELINE which includes some of killer Luke Mitchell’s reported violent and disturbed nature and previous knife threats, beginning from when he was aged 7;
Below is a witness list of 75 people who gave evidence during sadistic killer Luke Mitchell’s trial for his murder, yet over 100 witnesses were due to give evidence.
Which means around 25+ peoples names are missing from the list and their names and evidence was not reported on by the mainstream media.
1. Leonard Kelly – cyclist on the path
2. Judith Jones – mother of Jodi Jones
3. Janine Jones – sister of Jodi Jones – trial testimony day 1here& day 2here
4. Alice Walker – grandmother of Jodi Jones – trial testimonyhere
5. Steven Kelly – boyfriend of Janine Jones – trial testimonyhere
6. Allen Ovens – partner of Judith Jones – trial testimony here
7. DCI Ronald Miller – police officer
8. DSC Craig Dobbie – police officer
9. John Ferris – youth on the moped & Jodi Jones’ second cousin
10. Gordon Dickie – youth on the moped
11. Susan Ure – Tayside police forensic officer
12. Anthony Busuttil – pathologist trial testimony day 1here& day 2here
13. Rosemary Walsh – witness who saw killer Luke Mitchell – trial testimony here
14. Lorraine Fleming – witness who saw killer Luke Mitchell – trial testimony here
15. Carol Heatlie – witness who saw killer Luke Mitchell – trial testimonyhere
16. Marion O’Sullivan – witness who saw killer Luke Mitchell
17. Derek Hamilton – witness who saw killer Luke Mitchell
18. Andrew Holburn – photography student on bike who did not know killer Luke Mitchell – trial testimonyhere
19. Dean Houston – boy on bike who occasionally biked to school with killer Luke Mitchell trial testimonyhere
20. Grant Elliot – boy on bike who knew killer Luke Mitchell from school trial testimonyhere
21. Ashleigh Coutts – the sister of Ashley Coutts mother’s boyfriend lived with killer Luke Mitchell’s father Philip Mitchel trial testimonyhere
22. Kimberley Thomson – one of the other 5-6 girls killer Luke Mitchell targeted, abused & conned
23. Andrina Bryson – witness who saw killer Luke Mitchell
24. Shane Mitchell – brother of killer – trial testimony day 1here, day 2here& day 3here
25. Corinne Mitchell – mother of killer – trial testimony day 1 here & day 2 here
26. Dc Alan Towers – police officer – trial testimony day 1 here& day 2here
27. Dc Stephen Quinn – police officer
28. Sgt George Thomson – police officer – trial testimony day 1here, day 2 (not yet available) day 3 here & day 4 here
29. Robert Gilhooly – knew killer Luke Mitchell
30. Matthew Muraska – helped run army cadets in Bonnyrigg
31. Rachel Quinn – school friend of Jodi Jones trial testimonyhere
32. Alexander Hamilton – went to school with killer Luke Mitchell
33. Keith Campbell – knew killer Luke Mitchell
34. Michelle Tierney – knew killer Luke Mitchell
35. Alistair Leitch – philosophy student who knew Jodi Jones & killer Luke Mitchell
36. David High – friend of killer Luke Mitchell – trial testimony here
37. David Tullock – friend of killer Luke Mitchell & David High
38. Dc Michelle Lindsay – police family liaison officer – trial testimony here
39. Derek Scrimger – forensic scientist trial testimony here
40. Alan Murray – police photographer
41. Mark Heron – police identifications officer
42. Natalie Wright – worked at Whiplash Trash
43. Raymond McCloy – tattooist from Whiplash Trash
44. James Aitken – fingerprints
45. Patricia Frankland – neighbour of the Mitchell’s
46. Nicholas Frankland – neighbour of the Mitchell’s
47. George Ramage – neighbour of the Mitchell’s
48. Geraldine Mackie – English teacher
49. Maths teacher
50. Chemistry teacher who commented on killer Luke Mitchell looking like a “hoodedmonk” wearing his “missing” khaki green parka style coat
51. DI William Cravens – police officer
52. Laura Wightman – one of 5-6 other targeted girlfriends of killer Luke Mitchell -paragraphs from Laura’s July 2003 & September 2004 witness statements were read to the jury
53. Dc Brian Melrose – police officer
54. Female witness who was an employee for the firm of solicitors representing killer Luke Mitchell (See ground 12 of 14th November 2006 appeal judgement here)
55. Colin from Flip Inc
56. DI Tom Martin – police officer – trial testimony day 1here, day 2here & day 3 here 57. Dc Rory Hamilton – police officer
58. Ben Sole – knew killer Luke Mitchell, witnessed him cutting up cannabis resin into blocks & saw him in nightclub studio 24 on either the 4th or 5th July 2003
59. David Stirling – knew killer Luke Mitchell referred to at para 162 of CoA judgement heretrial testimony here
60. David Suttie – knew killer Luke Mitchell
61. Derek Morris – police technical support
62: Pathologist for defence – statement/report read to jury
63. Dc Adam Brunton – police officer
64. Jonathan Whitaker – from the forensic science service
65. Pc Anita Dow – police officer – trial testimony here
66. Dc Stephen Livingston – police officer
67. Dr Kranti Hiremath – police doctor
68. Pc Fraser Gaffney – police officer
69. Mahasweta Roy – forensic scientist (crown witness number 164)
70. Jill Barnes – friend of Laura Wightman & killer Luke Mitchell trial testimonyhere
71. Then partner of Leonard Kelly
72. Friend of David Tulloch
73. Ds David Gordon – police officer
74. Brian Clifton – handwriting expert
75. Paul Cook – school pupil who knew Jodi Jones & killer Luke Mitchell
Scammer Sandra Lean made the following statement via Facebook on the 6th July 2023;
Psychopathic murderer Aiden Fucci was also only 14 years of age when he chose to commit his murder of Tristyn Bailey (13).
Aiden Fucci was also sentenced as an adult.
There are several other parallels between the two teen male murderers.
Aiden Fucci also appears to have been fantasised about committing murder.
Aiden Fucci carried knives and named two of his knives “picker” and “poker”.
Aiden Fucci appears to have had an interest in satanic material.
Aiden Fucci was a heavy cannabis user.
Aiden Fucci was enabled by his mother Crystal Smith.
Below are excerpts from a March 2023 article;
Aiden Sean Fucci was a 14-year student attending Patriot Oaks Academy in St. Johns County, Florida.
On May 9, 2021, he killed 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey by stabbing her 114 times.
Fucci, at first, was arrested on the charge of second-degree murder.
The charge was soon changed to the first–degree when his motivation and predetermination were confirmed.
While Fucci did not have any prior criminal records, numerous interviews with peers revealed that Fucci had violent fantasies, which he often talked about.
He spoke of having the urge to murder someone by slitting their throat.
The thought of killing someone satisfied him, according to Fucci’s girlfriend.
His friends also corroborated that the 14-year-old practiced stabbing motions with a knife.
The young teenager was also a regular drug user.
The evidence, along with the brutality of the crime, was the prime factor behind his offense being changed to that of the first degree.
Fucci was also known to carry a knife on him at all times and show it off to his best friend and girlfriend.
Excerpts from an article by opoyi.com headed Why was Aiden Fucci charged as an adult dated 28th March 2023
Tap on the button below to read how sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell’s violent nature was recognised by 7 years of age and how his violence escalated into murder one month shy of his 15th Birthday;
Shamrocks & Red Zone Nightclub – Amanda Knox Met Rudy Guede Before She Met Raffaele Sollecito
According to the evidence, Amanda Knox met Rudy Guede before she met Raffaele Sollecito.
On Saturday the 20th October 2007 Meredith Kercher was in a bar called Shamrocks with her British friends watching the rugby World Cup final between England and South Africa
After the match Meredith Kercher and one of her British friends, along with Amanda Knox all went to the Red Zone night club just outside of Perugia along with Marco Marzan and Giacomo Silenzi (who lived downstairs).
A DJ from New York called Quentin Harris was spinning that evening, as can be seen and heard in the following videos taken on that night;
Rudy Guede had been in Shamrocks and had apparently seen Meredith Kercher and according to his prison diary, while the others were at the club, he had stopped by their house to visit but found nobody at home.
The following night, Sunday the 21st October 2007, Rudy Guede had visited by the four guy’s place downstairs for the Formula 1 Grand Prix, and he found out from Giacomo Silenzi that everyone had been at the Red Zone night club.
So then I went to “Le Chic” to ask about Amanda, maybe she knew where they went, but she wasn’t there.
So then I figured that she was with the guys, going out with the hanging around in the center of town.
It was Saturday others. Meanwhile I went with my usual friends, that evening.
The next day, Sunday, I went to the guys’ house and found them.
I told them that I ‘d tried, but couldn’t find them the day before, that I‘d gotten to their house late, etc., etc., then that I hadn’t seen them in the town center, and that I’d gone to “Le Chic” to ask about them and Amanda, but not even she was there.
And they told me that they’d gone after dinner to “The Red Zone”
Silenzi, a Perugia University student, lived with three other Italian men in the basement flat below the house Knox and Kercher shared.
Silenzi said he and his flatmates were growing five cannabis plants in their flat and had started smoking joints with their four female upstairs neighbours.
When he went home for the Italian public holiday on 1 November, Silenzi asked Kercher to water the plants for him.
Silenzi and his flatmates also entertained Guede at the downstairs flat twice in October after meeting him while playing basketball on a public court near the house.
Murder victim Meredith Kercher’s Italian boyfriend told yesterday of the moment he first feared Amanda Knox was her killer.
Giacomo Silenzi, 22, had been dating Meredith, 21, for just ten days when she was found semi-naked with her throat cut in the bedroom of student digs she shared with American Knox, 20.
Speaking publicly for the first time, Giacomo, who described Meredith, from London, as “beautiful and innocent”, said that he first feared Knox was the killer as they waited to be questioned by police.
He told The Mail on Sunday how he and Knox were taken to Perugia police station to be interviewed on Friday, November 2, the day Meredith’s body was found.
It was here he also met her co-accused, Raffaele Sollecito, 23.
Giacomo said:
“I was on the train heading back to Perugia from my parents’ house when I got a call from Meredith’s other flatmate Filomena, who told me what had happened.
“My stomach dropped – I just could not believe it. I had spoken with her for the last time just a couple of days earlier and she had sent me a text saying she was looking forward to me coming back.
“When I got to Perugia station, the police picked me up and took me to the police station.
“I had a cast-iron alibi because I had been at my parents’ house since the Monday – it was a bank holiday in Italy. I was taken to a waiting room and Amanda was there.
“She hugged me and said how sorry she was. Then she introduced me to her boyfriend Raffaele. I had never met him before.
“I couldn’t help thinking how cool and calm Amanda was. Meredith’s other English friends were devastated and I was upset, but Amanda was as cool as anything and completely emotionless.
“Her eyes didn’t seem to show any sadness and I remember wondering if she could have been involved.
“I spoke with her English friends Robyn [Butterworth] and Sophie [Purton] afterwards, and they said the same thing. None of us could quite understand how she was taking it all so calmly.
“I knew that Amanda didn’t get on with Meredith, but I didn’t think that would lead to Amanda killing her.
Holding back tears, Giacomo said:
“Meredith was a beautiful and innocent girl. We had only just started our relationship and maybe it was too early to talk about love, but we really had an affection for each other.
“She moved into the flat above mine at the end of the summer and we would pop into each other’s places just to say hello or have a cup of coffee, the things that neighbours do.
“She was very pretty and I was also impressed with her Italian. We would share CDs and play music together.
“It was my birthday at the end of September but she couldn’t make my party because she was flying back to England for the weekend.
“She gave me a bottle of rum as a present. Most of it was drunk at the party but there is a drop left that I will now keep for ever”
Giacomo added:
“It was a few weeks after that, around the middle of October-that we kissed for the first time at a student party. Then we made love a couple of days later in my flat.
“I’m still having trouble taking this all in. If I could see Amanda, I would just ask her, ‘Why? Why did she kill Meredith?’
On the 10th December 2021 Bert Kreischer spoke to psychopath Amanda Knox about Rudy Guede.
According to Amanda Knox’s book Waiting to be heard, she met someone called Bobby aka Daniel de Luna over the weekend of 20th/21st October 2007.
Daniel de Luna was a friend of the men who lived downstairs.
Amanda Knox stated;
This was the first time I’d invited a guy into my bed since I arrived in Perugia.
We went to my room and had sex, then we both passed out
Amanda Knox
Two nights after Amanda and Raf got involved, she hooked up once more with Daniel de Luna, the friend of the neighbours downstairs, and later included him on the list of sex partners in her prison diary
Excerpt from Barbie Latza Nadeau’s book Angel Face (published in 2010)
Below is a transcribe taken from Bertcast #495 Amanda Knox & ME, beginning from approximately 15:26, where Amanda Knox was seemingly referring to Sunday the 21st October 2007;
This was the guy Rudy
Bert Kriescher (from around 15:26 of Bertcast #495 Amanda Knox & ME)
Yeah Rudy Guede
Amanda Knox
So Rudy
This is another thing I , I don’t think I ever really wrapped my head round
Ru, you guys met Rudy
Let me, let me start from the beginning
So, ‘cos Rudy had come down and like hung out at your house a couple of times right
Bert Kreischer
So Rudy Guede was eh a local
Erm he played basketball
Like did sort of pick up basketball
With erm
In the local like basketball court that was in front of the university
And that was really near by my house
So the guys that lived in the apartment downstairs from us often would play basketball with him
Like pick-up games
Amanda Knox
And those were like two law students right
Bert Kreischer
So no
So the two law students that you’re thinking of are the other two room mates that I had besides Meredith
Amanda Knox
Okay
Bert Kreischer
Those are two Italian women
Amanda Knox
Oh, oh okay
I thought those were dudes
I must have clumped them in
Okay
Yeah
Bert Kreischer
Yeah
So we lived on the top floor of a house
And on the bottom floor there lived four guys
And they were all just doing their thing
Eh it was a separate apartment situation
But we would occasionally go out to dinner together
Or like go out to a club together
Like, it just
You know, household dynamics
But they would go and play basketball
And have pick up games with whoever was there
Including Rudy Guede
And occasionally those people would come over to their house
And one time Rudy Guede came to their house
And they invited us to come downstairs
And that’s when we met Rudy Guede
Amanda Knox
And Rudy, kind of
If I’m not mistaken
He had a crush on you
Bert Kreischer
That’s what they say
I don, I didn’t know that
Apparently after we went and like hung out with them for a few minutes
They were
They sort of
After a while me and Meredith just went back upstairs
It was time to go to bed
And afterwards it was when they were sort of talking about us
And Giacomo one of the guys downstairs had a crush on Meredith
So I’m sure that they brought that up
And maybe Rudy Guede said something about me
That’s at least what was said
When I, I was on trial
But no one ever told me that
I didn’t even actually know his name until I was already arrested
Amanda Knox
Really
Bert Kreischer
Yeah
Amanda Knox
Roberta Glass Goes Over Peter Hyatt’s StatementAnalysis & A Transcript Of Curt Knox’s 20th November 2007 Capanne Prison Visit Referring To Rudy Guede
Roberta Glass from the Roberta Glass True Crime Report has a new 2023 series on Amanda Knox, which can be found by tapping on the button below;
Roberta’s two YouTube videos below go over Amanda Knox’s evidence regarding her and Rudy Guede and are worth watching and listening to.
At around 48:00 of Roberta Glass’s video Amanda Knox Changes Her StoryAgain! (below), Roberta goes over Peter Hyatt’s statement analysis of Amanda’s statement regarding a shower she said she had with Raffaele Sollecito and how they “..had a shower and we washed ourselves for a long time” and that Raffaele “cleaned my ears, he dried and combed my hair”;
Previous Blogs Including Amanda Knox & The Cult Like “Wrongful Conviction” Movement
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Roberta Glass of the Roberta Glass True Crime Report will be chatting LIVE with “inactive” lawyer, and writer Andrew Hammel on his 2 part Quillette article headed “The Wrongful Exoneration of Adnan Syed”
Welsh murderer Michael (Mike) O’Brien, who has failed to ever prove his actual, factual innocence has recently come out in support of the sadistic and psychopathic murderer Luke Mitchell.
Phillip Saunders (52)
Phillip Saunders was murdered on the 12th October 1987 by Michael O’Brien and his brother in-law Ellis Sherwood, whilst their friend Darren Hall kept look-out.
Sandra Lean referred to Mike O’Brien during a recent live video, which can be listened to below;
The following was posted today (18th June 2023) on one on the social media innocence fraud Facebook pages.
NOTE how killer Michael O’Brien stated “I proved my innocence at the court of appeal in 2000”.
This was and is a bare faced lie!
Michael O’Brien
The following comments were made underneath the above Facebook post;
The “official” innocence fraud Facebook group also shared killer Michael O’Brien’s nonsense, which both he and Sandra Lean commented on;
MartinPreibis a Chicago writer and cop. His first book, The Wagon and Other Stories from the City, was published by the University of Chicago Press.
In 2006, he began investigating wrongful conviction cases in Chicago and determined that many of these exonerations were false. His work led to undermining the most influential wrongful conviction case in the state’s history, chronicled in his second book Crooked City.
In this, his second book about a Chicago murder case in which an offender walked out of death row, award-winning writer and police officer Martin Preib documents his journey from doubt to certainty that the offender in this case should not have been released from prison.
Preib’s earlier book, Crooked City, undermined the central so-called “wrongful conviction” case that was seminal in generating an industry in Illinois aimed at overturning convictions. Now Preib moves beyond that case to the Madison Hobley arson, meticulously unraveling, strand by strand, the convoluted tapestry of Chicago’s corruption that led to a 2003 pardon of Hobley by Illinois Governor George Ryan, allowing Hobley to walk free from the 1987 arson on Chicago’s South Side that left seven people dead, including his own wife and child
In this second collection of connected essays, Chicago cop Martin Preib takes on seemingly unrelated murder cases, all dating from one year, 1982, including some in which offenders were released as part of the wrongful conviction movement.
This book shatters reader assumptions—about the workings of justice, the objectivity of the media, and the role of the police in the city of Chicago, even calling into question allegations of police torture in the notorious cases against Jon Burge.
Sandra Lean is a criminologist from the area of Mayfield in Dalkeith, not far from where Jodi was murdered.
At the height of the hate and hype, Dr Lean spoke up
Scott Forbes
In reality charlatan Sandra Lean did not attend sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell’s trial, apparently through fear of being recognised.
For many years Sandra Lean hid behind anonymous social media profiles.
As stated in previous Parts of this blog series, in 2007 she published a now discredited innocence fraud book called No Smoke: The Shocking Truth About British Justice;
Screenshot of front cover of Sandra Lean’s discredited book ‘NoSmoke’
In October 2015 Sandra Lean stated;
If you pick and choose points, you can stitch them together to make what looks like a compelling narrative, so long a no-one comes along and ruins the story by pointing out all of the”missed out” bits that make a nonsense of it (sic)
The above is what Sandra Lean has been attempting to do since at least 2007.
An excerpt from Sandra Lean’s 1st discredited book No Smoke, from her chapter on Jodi Jones’ guilty killer read;
Several witnesses were identified as having been on the path at the critical time that evening.
In total there were a minimum of five –
John Ferris, Gordon Dickie, his father, David Dickie, Stephen Kelly, a witness who claimed to have heard a disturbance behind the wall, and the “mystery man” seen following Jodi onto the path (sic)
Excerpt from Sandra Lean’s book No Smoke (First published in 2007)
Sandra Lean stated here on the 4th of October 2019;
Eight pages before this paragraph, it says, “others…described a mystery man following Jodi towards the Easthouses entrance to the path.”
Sandra Lean
On the 4th of October 2019 Sandra Lean also made the following claim here;
The reference to Stephen Kelly is clearly a typo, since the sentence goes on to describe him as “a witness who claimed to have heard a disturbance behind the wall.” (sic)
Sandra Lean
Sandra Lean disingenuously reaffirmed her “typo” lie again in May 2021 in the comments section of one of her YouTube videos here (Also mentioned in Part 5here), this time referring to it as “one typo” stating;
The first book was withdrawn to correct one typo where the wrong name was printed in error and to be updated because some of the people whose cases were featured have since died.
Sandra Lean – May 2021
Below is a screenshot showing Sandra Lean’s statement;
“One Typo” Lie Grows Arms & Legs by 2010
Sandra Lean made claim;
But for some people, what they don’t know, they’ll just make up
Sandra Lean
This is yet another example of Sandra Lean’s gaslighting and her projections, whereby she attempts to attribute her character traits onto others.
Sandra Lean blatantly lied when she stated;
The first book was withdrawn to correct one typo where the wrong name was printed in error
Cara Sulieman’s third paragraph of her article on liars Sandra Lean and Corinne Mitchell stated;
They claim on an internet forum that DNA evidence links the man with the brutal 2003 stabbing
Billy (William) Middleton
The internet forum referred to by Cara Sulieman was set up and run by un-convicted baby killer and sexual deviant Billy (William) Middleton.
Billy Middleton latched onto the fraudulent public relations spin campaign of the sexually deviant, adolescent child killer of Jodi Jones, not long after he was he was released from custody.
Read more on un-convicted baby killer Billy Middleton here.
Cara Sulieman’s article included a couple of statements made by Steven Kelly, which were as follows;
I know what these people are saying about me
I will deal with this in my own time
Steven Kelly
Cara Sulieman’s article also included statements made by Sandra Lean and Corinne Mitchell, where they referred to Steven Kelly as X and Mr X;
Luke Mitchell, 22, was convicted of the murder of his 14-year-old girlfriend in 2005.
But his mum recently posted on an internet forum that evidence points to someone else.
She wrote:
“X’s semen and blood were on Jodi’s T-shirt*…his description and clothing matched a witness statement of a male ‘following Jodi’…he was known to the police.
“Is it me or is anyone else adding things up here?
“Description of man seen behind Jodi – grey hooded top
“Several days after the murder X hands his grey hooded top to the police saying it has been washed
And Sandra Lean, author and researcher on miscarriages of justice, added:
“Our Mr X is emerging as more and more suspicious.
“The info that’s coming our way is shocking, especially as the police should have been onto this stuff right from the beginning.”
NOTE: Steven Kelly’s blood was NOT found on Jodi Jones T-shirt!Sample 10G, referred to in the disclosure material, appears to have been Jodi Jones’ blood. Read more under “Suspects & DNA” here
Sandra Lean and Corinne Mitchell were clearly inferring Steven Kelly was ‘“seen behind Jodi” and that he was the “male following Jodi” wearing a “grey hooded top”, and that “X’s semen and blood were on Jodi’s T-shirt”.
Therefore for Sandra Lean to make the claim she had made “one typo’” – was and is a blatant lie.
Sandra Lean had included the unnamed “witness who claimed to have heard a disturbance behind the wall” in her list of people, along with Steven Kelly, as was evident by the comma used.
Sandra Lean’s point was to attempt to create doubt and suspicion and mislead people to wrongly be suspicious towards Steven Kelly, when there was no suspicion to be had.
In early 2014 Sandra Lean told Stephanie (Hall) she believed Jodi Jones was murdered by Luke Mitchell.
Sandra Lean also said she believed killer Luke Mitchell and his mother Corinne Mitchell appeared to Sandra to have had a similar “twisted reciprocal” type relationship with her killer son as Joan Albert’s killer’s mother appeared to have had with her killer son.
In July 2014 Billy Middleton made a statement on his WAP forum (Reproduced here). Excerpts read;
…anything which depends on access to his paperwork will have to be taken offline in a week’s time roughly
…and if anyone wants to start a topic which isn’t notably said to be backed up by case papers they are perfectly free to do so
Billy (William) Middleton
This was yet another classic innocence fraud tactic by both un-convicted baby killer and predator Billy Middleton, and his former girlfriend and partner of the WAP org – Sandra Lean.
Billy Middleton removed this material and the WAP forum and website from the World Wide Web in 2014.
Therefore it made it impossible for the people who were duped by the 2021 Innocence fraud TV Show Murder In A Small Town, to see with their own eyes how Sandra Lean’s stories have morphed over the years and how erroneous facts have been manipulated as though they were true.
Some screen shots taken of the WAP website have been reproduced here.
Steven Kelly was not responsible for sadistic killer Luke Mitchell’s murderous crimes, nor did Steven Kelly lie to the police like killer Luke Mitchell, his mother Corinne and brother Shane Mitchell did.
Innocent Steven Kelly, like innocent Mark Kane, posted on an Internet forum in February 2021. Read more here.
Below is a screenshot of one of Steven Kelly’s forum posts;
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