What Year & Date Did Neil MacKay Visit With Killer Luke Mitchell?

Neil MacKay, who chose to appear in the 2021 channel 5 two part TV innocence fraud show titled Murder In A Small Town, stated at the time sadistic killer Luke Mitchell chose to commit his murder of Jodi Jones🌻 “there was a moral panic around teenagers listening to music their parents found disagreeable”.

It is not known if Corinne Mitchell was aware of this alleged “moral panic” at the time her youngest son Luke Mitchell chose to commit his murder, however Neil MacKay also stated;

As a reporter, I later visited (Luke) Mitchell in jail, and spoke with his mother

Special Permission To Visit Murderer

It is also not known when exactly Neil MacKay visited with sadistic killer Luke Mitchell.

However what is known is that in order for Neil MacKay to visit with killer Luke Mitchell he would have required “special permission” to do so.

Killer Luke Mitchell would have also been required to put in an application to his prison Governor to obtain permission for a visit with Neil MacKay.

It is also not known when exactly Neil MacKay spoke with Corinne Mitchell and what exactly the killer and his mother Corinne spoke to Neil MacKay about.

Why Would A “Senior Police Officer” Linked To The Investigation Allegedly Contact A Random Glasgow Based Reporter “In The Run-Up To Mitchell’s Trial”?

Neil Mackay stated in his February 2021 article for the Herald that he was “a reporter” at the time killer Luke Mitchell committed his murder.

According to a bio on Neil MacKay here it states that he was “originally from Antrim, in Northern Ireland” and “worked in Belfast before moving to Glasgow in 1996”.

Neil MacKay stated;

I was investigations editor with the Herald newspapers at the time of the Jodi Jones murder, and I appear as a interviewee in the documentary Murder In A Small Town.

In the run-up to (Luke) Mitchell’s trial I received a very strange phone call from a senior police officer in which I was told a number of unsubstantiated and shocking claims about Mitchell.

I was told Mitchell was definitely guilty.

In all my years as a reporter – covering some of the most serious crimes in recent British criminal history, including major terrorist offences – I’ve never received such a phone call from police.

A lot of the telephone conversation centred on (Luke) Mitchell’s love of Goth music and his alternative lifestyle.

Excerpts from Neil MacKay’s article for the Herald headed Murder in a small town: Could Luke Mitchell be innocent of the murder of Jodi Jones? dated 21st February 2021

What articles did Neil MacKay write and have published in 2003, 2004 and 2005, if any and why would a “senior police officer” linked to the investigation allegedly contact Neil MacKay, a random reporter in Glasgow about sadistic killer Luke Mitchell?

There is no evidence anywhere to suggest Neil MacKay even attended the killers 2004/05 trial.

The Herald Reporting

Innocence Fraud Watch included excerpts from an article written and published by the Herald which reported on Judith Jones evidence regarding her 10:20pm text message to killer Luke Mitchell in Part 195 of this ongoing blog series.

Part 195 can be read by tapping on the button below;

On the 26th November 2004 Judith Jones was called to give evidence during her daughter Jodi Jones🌻 murderers trial.

However the Herald did not publish Judith Jones’ evidence heard on the 26th November 2004, until the following day.

On the 27th November 2004 the Herald published the following excerpts;

At 10.20pm, she texted a message to Mr Mitchell’s phone, because Jodi’s was broken:

”Right Toad (Jodi’s nickname), that’s you grounded for another three weeks” it said.

A minute later, Mr Mitchell called back.

Mrs Jones said:

”He said he hadn’t seen Jodi all night. I said:

What do you mean you haven’t seen her?

She was with you?’

If I recollect, I just put the phone down. There was something really wrong”

She called Mr Mitchell back and told him:

“I just want the truth.

If she is with you, I don’t care.

I just want to know.

He said: I haven’t seen her”

Mrs Jones began phoning friends and later she called the police. Jodi’s body was found later that night.

Excerpts from an article by the Herald headed She gave me a kiss and went out. I never saw Jodi again Mother tells murder trial of phone calls to accused after daughter went missing dated 27th November 2004

From Reporting Text Message At 10:20pm Then Changing It To 10:41pm Almost A Month Later

Then almost one month after Judith Jones gave her evidence, detective constable (Dc) Alan Towers was called to give evidence in regards to the killers evidence.

Almost a month after the jury were told Judith Jones texted killer Luke Mitchell at 10:20pm the Herald published the following excerpts;

Detective Constable Alan Towers, 43, said that Mr Mitchell wrote a statement which ran to 22 pages.

A text message to his mobile from Jodi’s mother at 10.41pm the previous night first alerted him to the fact that something was wrong, he said.

The jury heard how Mr Mitchell then met Jodi’s grandmother, sister and the sister’s boyfriend, and continued searching along the wooded Roan’s Dyke path in Dalkeith, Midlothian. “They were panicky, ” he told Mr Towers

The statement, read in court by the detective, continued:

“We walked past the V-shaped break in the wall and a few yards past that, not even 20 yards past that..

Excerpts from an article by The Herald dated the 21st of December 2004 – Read full article here

Why did the Herald go from reporting Judith Jones text message as being sent at 10:20pm on the 27th November 2004 to then adding almost 21 minutes to this time, almost a month later?

More on killer Luke Mitchell’s evidence can be read in Part 65 of this ongoing blog series, which can be found by tapping on the button below,

Link to Part 262 here