Joan Albert’s Killer. Photograph of Simon Hall taken whilst at large and wanted by Suffolk police for a sexually motivated murder
Andrew Green
A few days prior to Stephanie Bon’s correspondence with Michael Naughton, which was referred to in Part 17a (Tap on button below to read more), Stephanie Bon emailed Andrew Green at the INNOCENT organisation, CC’ing in Michael Naughton.
Andrew Green who says he is a “criminologist” co-founded the Manchester based INNOCENT organisation in 1993 and went on to also co-found United Against Injustice (UAI) with Ann Craven, the mother of Adrian Craven who was convicted for rape.
Andrew Green claimed Adrian Craven was “fully exonerated” for his rape but Innocence Fraud Watch has found no evidence to support this claim.
Kevin McMahon
Kevin McMahon
Kevin McMahon who was convicted of perverting the course of justice for pressurising a witness in the trial of Basil Williams-Rigby who was convicted for “sexual offences”, was also said to be a co-founder of United Against Injustice.
NOTE: Adrian Craven and Basil Williams-Rigby’s convictions were deemed “unsafe” by the court of appeal.
Neither men proved their actual, factual innocence.
It states here that Kevin McMahon “is a film producer and former member of the Royal Military Police and Special Branch”.
And it states here that Kevin McMahon “has been an active campaigner for over 25 years, his advice has been sought in many individual and high profile miscarriages of justice cases”.
A video published to vimeo which is said to have been produced by Kevin McMahon, titled ‘In Search Of The Truth’, can be viewed here.
Screenshot of end credits to Kevin McMahon’s ‘film’
Un-Convicted Baby Killer Billy Middleton
The vimeo video here includes brief footage of un-convicted baby killer Billy (William) Middleton who set up the now defunct Wrongly Accused Person (WAP) website.
The Wrongly Accused Person website went on to become the Wrongly Accused Person (WAP) organisation, after Billy Middleton and Sandra Lean registered it as a charity.
Sandra Lean
Sandra Lean became a partner alongside Billy Middleton for the WAP organisation.
Billy Middleton was another abusive enabler and gaslighter of actual, factual guilty killer Simon Hall’s fraudulent public relations spin campaign.
Screenshot of one of unconvicted child killer Billy Middleton’s social media posts
Prior to Sandra Lean’s partnership with Billy Middleton, Sandra had been the Scottish representative for the INNOCENT organisation.
Peter Hill
Peter Hill removed his original event post from the world wide web but some of the following could once be found using this link http://www.raybrook.co.uk/event.htm;
Parliament House is just off the High Street, beside St Giles Cathedral – it’s not down beside the new Parliament Building at Holyrood. I’m rubbish at directions, and I’m sure someone will come up with better than this, but the easiest way I know is, from the railway station, go up the North Bridge to the junction where High Street/Royal Mile meet North Bridge, turn right up High Street, and it’s on your left, five or 6 openings up.
It would be great to see lots of contributors to the forum there, but please remember to contact one of the organisers and get your name on the guest list to avoid security problems.
The preliminary work in organizing this initiative has been done by: JohnScott John is the leading civil rights solicitor in Scotland. He is the Chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Centre. IainMcKie Iain is a retired police officer. His interest in law reform springs largely from the problems that his daughter Shirley encountered when she was a police officer, which led to an official inquiry. More details of this can be found at www.shirleymckie.com Sandra Lean Sandra is a writer on miscarriages of justice. She is the Scottish representative of INNOCENT. Her book No Smoke contains research on a dozen cases of miscarriage of justice in particular the controversial case of Luke Mitchell. Peter Hill Peter, now retired, was the producer of the BBC TVs programme Rough Justice. In Scotland he has worked on the case of George Beattie for 25 years, taking it to two appeals.
Merseyside Against Injustice was launched in October 2001 and a sister of sadistic serial killer and psychopath Michael Stone, also known as Michael John Goodban, spoke at the launch.
Barbara Stone
Barbara Stone promoted her brother’s innocence fraud public relations spin campaign.
Barbara Stone also set up the now defunct group Kent Against Injustice.
Neil Wilby stated in his June 2020 blog headed Dr Truthseeker loses her moral compassthat Andrew Green “was driven out in 2016” from the United Against Injustice organisation.
Note: Neil Wilby also stated in his blog Dr Truthseeker loses her moral compass in relation to a secondary victim of killer Simon Hall’s, namely Stephanie (Hall), that she is “a regular miscarriage of justice commentator”. Stephanie (Hall) is a “regular commentator” on the innocence fraud phenomenon and the killers, rapists, fraudsters and con artists and their deceptive enablers, who choose to perpetuate it.
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”
Erm thanks to everybody for, for all the messages over the weekend
Erm it was a bit
Wild
Eh I’d just like to clarify, because there have been a few claims made about why I left on Friday
Erm I did not say that there was a, a warrant out for me
I said I’d been told that they could come after me
And being a Friday I didn’t want to risk losing the weekend
Especially with everything that was happening
Erm I wanted to be here to be able to keep people up to date
And if they’d come for me here on Friday I might not have been able to do that
Erm somebody said I looked scared yesterday
I’m sorry if I looked scared
Erm I didn’t mean to look scared
I was
Peeved
At the whole situation
Erm sorry to waste every bodies time
And just another attempt to stop this information getting out
“One quick question for today where are the legal protections for Leek (laugh) sorry for Luke, and you Dr Lean against this blatant intimidation of Luke?”
I’m just coming to that Barry if you give me two seconds
So
I have a letter
From Luke
Erm
And I wanna share it with you because that was what he intended me to do
Erm he just said they’ve cut off all telephone access for me under rule 62 paragraph 5
By direction, now we said
We said they’ll be no place to hide now okay
Get your pens out, you’re gonna know what to do with this
By direction of David Allen acting head of operations at Greenock
So
Now let’s be absolutely clear about this
This was all done with permission from the very top in Greenock
But Luke couldn’t have been spirited away over night
To another prison
Unless that other prison agreed to take him
Until now we said we’ll do the complaints to the prison service and to the inspectorate
But not directly to Greenock while Luke was there
Well he’s not there anymore
You know what to did peeps
Have at it
Erm “I’ve not been allowed out on recreation despite recreation withdrawal having expired”
So basically they’ve just left him in a cell
Spirited him out
And kept him locked in a cell
“They’re now setting out to completely silence me
And his instruction to me
“You now have full autonomous authority to tell everybody everything”
Okay so for the people that are saying I’m doing this
I’m putting Luke in a worse position and all of that
No
This is entirely Luke’s desire
Luke’s intention for all of this
And I pointed out in the last erm video
That just in case anybody hasn’t picked up on it
Luke has not seen his lawyer throughout all of this
He’s had no access
So wait a minute
Where have we heard this before
No access to legal advise or representation
Where have we heard that before
How can that still be the case 20 years down the line
But it is
So
Erm
A little, a little message from Luke
“This is what happens when you speak out again, against your abuser. They isolate, silence, then disappear you. We are the Scottish prison service. Transforming life’s. Unlocking potential”
Unlocking potential by locking people up 23 hours a day
Huh
Not entirely sure how that one works
Erm
In an attempt to make sure
‘Cos Luke had no idea if I would get this
He, he had no idea if he’d be able to have communication with me
So in an attempt to make sure that the message got to me
I’m not gonna read out the names
But he had emails prepared for about a dozen random friends
And he got them sent out to everybody to make sure that that (laugh) message got to back me
Yeah
Very proud of him for that
Erm
So
What we’re gonna come to next
Is
Erm
You remember back in
The end of April and in May
When we were talking about the destruction of evidence
And eh the crown office chucking it at the police
And the police chucking it at the the.
And everybody was trying to blame everybody else
And, and eventually we narrowed it down and we narrowed it down
And it turned out that erm the chief constable was in charge of destroying the, the eh productions
Eh and we then got a letter saying that the productions that had survived were held by police Scotland in secure conditions in Edinburgh
And you will remember I said good at least we know where they are now
And then we got all these ridiculous conditions about how they were gonna be trust
Eh eh tested
And where they were gonna be tested
And what demands the police were making
And everything else
Well
On the same day that this all started kicking off
Luke, or Luke’s solicitor got a letter
Which said
Police Scotland will not provide the documents in relation to, to previous examination
As they do not hold the information requested
The information is held
By the Scottish police authority
And round and round and round we go
Again
Now I, I was thinking about this, this afternoon
And this is not only horrendous abuse and torture of Luke
It shows you the utter absolute contempt that they hold us in
They’re putting this information out
We’re saying the crown office said they didn’t tell the police to destroy it
The police are now saying
Well they did sort of but we kind of mistakingly got rid of the rest
But they said we could do this and we
And then they said right you can have some of it for testing
But you’re not getting all of it
This is police Scotland
You, you can get some of it
But you’re not getting here are the condition
So go back to this
Right okay, okay
We’re making a list of the ones that we want
The ones that we need
The ones that we can get tested
And they went
Arh sorry did we say that was ours
We had it
Nah, nah we’ve not got anything
It’s the Scottish police authority that have got it now
Even though we’ve got it in black and white
Saying that they’ve got it
And this
Lu, Luke got this letter the day all of this is kicking off
How much is one person supposed to take
Seriously
Eh there was one other bit about this
Erm “it should not be a double negative”
So
Don’t even know what that means
Are they saying don’t, don’t give it out
Are they saying do give it out
Don’t
So still all these months
It was November 2022 we found out they were destroying evidence
November
And, and we’re all these months later and not a single step forward
In plain view, in plain view
How are they getting away with it
So
That’s, that’s where we’re at
It’s, it’s not just erm the abuse of Luke
It’s the utter contempt for us the public
They’re doing this on our behalves ostensively
And they, they’re just telling it
They know it’s out here, they know everybody knows about it
And they’re just going
Oh know we didn’t say that
Yes you did (Sandra claps her hands) here it is
Nah nah it was nee us
So you’ll forgive my slight frustration this evening
I want to move on to the literally inglorious custards fraternity that is erm the tabloid media
I’m gonna go with the sun article, the one that was out today first
Now if you’re one of, if your one of the fraternity, pin back your ears guys and learn something
‘Cos you’re supposed to be journalists, you’re supposed to know this, so here’s a little, you know, quick lesson for ya
They said Luke was enjoying days out amongst unsuspecting, the unsuspecting public
Like every long term prisoner ever, who’s been coming up to release
How else do these guys get reintegrated with society
What we just, we just kick them out the door and, and you know
We’re supposed to be helping them to reintegrate to become, you know well rounded members of society
So this, this is not unusual procedure
This happens with every single prisoner progressing through the system
And then they say he’s been enjoying the two hours jollies for months
Well which is it, is it days out or two hour jollies
Can’t make their mind up on that one
But , this is, this is where I take excep, exception to that
Two hour jollies or months since at least last year
Actually Luke had three outings
January 2022, April 2022 and the last one on the 5th of May 2022
He has never been in the community since, not once
So, stop with the nonsense
They then go on about he bragged about strolling ahead of the guards
Yeah that’s the point, that’s the point
He has been escorted everywhere for the best part of twenty years
And now he has to come to the outside and learn how to just go about his day normally
Now there is a special place in hell reserved for Chris Taylor and Harry Williamson who wrote this article
For the claim that Luke moaned about being refused visits to his mum
Because of her health and because she was not well enough to visit him
Moaned about it, these, these people have no humanity, none
How, how, how can they have
(Sigh)
The Edinburgh news most of you will know now that I put out an open letter ‘cos that was just ridiculous
His community access was withdrawn, withdrawn after he failed two drugs tests
Makes it sound like one after the other
They were eight months apart and both of them on the result of horrendous abuse
And the second one after he’d been told yet again that his progression was being delayed, yet again
So it the, it was first delayed in April 2022 supposedly for eight weeks
And at the beginning, the end of May, beginning of June 2023 there was still no resolution and he was told it was being delayed again
So that’s the first thing, his community access was not withdrawn down, due to his own actions
And I’d like to know who is the prison source who spoke to these journalists
Luke did it under his own name
He had the balls to come out and say it under his own name
And these guy oh prison source
Stand by your words huh
I should not get too erm wound up by this stuff but this weekend has been a bit of a windup
Jodi’s family have been subjected to awful abuse by Luke’s supporters
Never, never
We, we can’t help that the police did what they did back in 2003 and 2004
That is not the supporters fault
Jodi’s family would not be having to deal with this if the police had done it properly in the first place
That is the point
But it’s easy for them to turn it back on us
Oh look what their doing, look what their doing
Because that means people don’t go and look at what their doing
And that, that’s really important, what we need to look at is what their doing
Because what we have here is a media encouraging erm members of the public to demand that these progression processes are some how removed or shut down or made more difficult
What, what do we do with long term prisoners if we can’t reintegrate them
What do we do with them, and eh, it’s this level of hate, it’s this level of judgement that’s continually whipped up by the media
But this is changing, people are no longer buying it, you guys are no longer buying it
And, and you know this, this is what will eventually bring it down
We, we just gotta keep going
So this whole thing now with where are the samples again
Like he needed this on top of everything else
I will be on to that tomorrow
Erm chase down what I can, find out what I can
We need to try and get his solicitor in to see him
Now one,one erm development over this weekend
It has been difficult because as, as you know
I, my power was not great, my internet kept dropping out
But we do have, thanks to some of the supporters and, and other people who have worked really hard on this
We do have two organisations who are now willing to take up the human rights aspect of this on Luke’s behalf
Which is fantastic news
The other thing, and again thanks to Mike O’Brien for this
A lot of people are saying, oh these cases are English law and it’s different in Scotland
Human rights legislation applies in the same way whether in England or Scotland
And these things are breaches of Luke’s human rights
So the protection against eh degrading and inhumane punishment
Where’s Luke’s protection, nowhere to be seen
So that’s a breach
Erm the right to communication with family and friends and free speech
Hello, not only did his free speech lose him his lower category condition’s
It’s lost him the right to speak to his family, with his mother so ill
He, you, that is so callous
Erm there’s another, obviously his, his right to legal advise and representation
Huh Straight out the window
So, so eh we have people that are willing to take this forward for us now
Erm which is one way, or one less thing we have to do
So it’s not all bad news guys, it’s not all bad news
We are getting there, we’re trying to get something organised for the next protest
This weekend again made things a bit more difficult but erm we’re looking at different places for protests, different ways of doing protests
We’re also trying to pull together now the, the people who said they’d sit in town centres and give out information packs and all that sort of thing
We’re working on that as well, so we’ll get that back to you ASAP
Finally erm before I go ‘cos I’ve taken up far too much of your time already between Friday and now
Erm the buy me a coffee
NowI said at the time
We can’t fundraise for a convicted person
We all know that, we all know that
If it’s got Luke’s name in it they take it down, every single time
So what I said, well, we can’t fundraise for Luke’s case but if anybody wants to support my work
Because I work on lots of cases and lots of different organisations and everything
And I be very grateful if, if anybody would be willing to do that
Seemed like, a good idea
And of course it would help with lots of different things
I believe someone has made a complaint
And that complaint made on the bases that I am breaching the platforms rules by engaging in unlawful activity
That unlawful activity being the four part series that I’ve got out on YouTube
Well if it was unlawful it wouldn’t be on YouTube, they’d have taken it down
Number one, number two I probably with a handful of e, emails could have a dozen people confirming that I work with them on their cases, educating people on, on the different stuff
So, all I’m saying is, there may be delay with the buy me a coffee stuff erm because these people with nothing better to do with their time
We are determined that this case and other cases like it will not go forward, just keep meddling and poking and, yeah, that kind of just makes me more determined
I don’t know about you guys but that kinda makes me just a little bit more determined to carry on doing what we’re doing
Good afternoon everybody I’m sorry there was no advanced warning for this
Erm it’s taken me by as much surprise as it has you
Erm, at
Luke called me yesterday to say that they had laid a charge on him for misuse of the prison communication system by allowing his conversations to be recorded knowing that they were gonna be erm, published
That’s not an offence
He’s perfectly within his right to do that
Erm however, eh we found out this morning that he was no longer in Glennock
Couldn’t find out where he was
He did manage to get a message out
To say that he has been moved back to Shotts
And they have cut all of his phone communication
Erm there is also a suggestion, a potentional
That they may come after me
So I am now leaving (pause) my home
Leaving Scotland for the time being
Erm, ‘cos I’m no good to Luke if I’m locked up
It’s to let everybody know this is what they’ve done to him
This is his punishment
For speaking out
It is absolutely outrageous
I don’t know if people will be able to see this
Later Jeanette, Angela
I don’t know how much you’ve seen
I’m just gonna erm, repeat again
Luke was told yesterday that he was gonna be punished for speaking out, using the prison phones
He said that he used them unlawfully by knowing that his communication was being taped for publication
That is not an offence
He’s entitled to do that
Erm (pause) but they, they moved him over night
Nobody knew where he was
We found out this morning
He did manage to get a message out this morning
That he is back in Shotts
And they have removed all his phone access as punishment
Erm, there is a suggestion that they will also come after me for unlawfully publishing those recordings
So I am now leaving my home
Eh getting out of Scotland at the minute
Erm until we know what’s happening
I’d like, I’d like to say on Lukes behalf a huge thank you to everybody
Who managed to erm, get the word out
And, and everybody communicating with each other, to let them know
I will be back on later once I am out of the area
Erm, thanks everybody that, that’s been able to see this
And please please please share this information as far and wide as you possibly can
He is being punished for using a legitimate prison phone
For a legitimate interview
That was legitimately published
And, that’s where we’re at right now
I will come back to you in a few hours, once I’m out of the area
It is the role of the Scottish prison service to observe and monitor the security and behaviour of high risk offenders like deceptive, manipulative and abusive killer Luke Mitchell.
The Scottish prison service are also meant to identify and respond to breaches of security and order.
Psychopathic killer Luke Mitchell said to look like “Shaggy” from Skooby Doo
PSI 37/2010 & A Prisoners Access To The Media
As stated in a previous Part of this blog series, Sandra Lean yesterday (16th June 2023) published a short live video to her Facebook social media accounts confirming that the actual, factual psychopathic murderer Luke Mitchell has finally been returned to closed prison conditions.
Scammer Sandra Lean went on to do another live video in which she alleged she was fleeing Scotland in her camper van.
This is the camper van which she has allegedly already told the police and the public all about in her alleged previous communications with the police and the public (See here).
More on charlatan and fraudster Sandra Lean’s behaviour regarding this can be read in Part 211 of this blog series, which again can be read by tapping on the button below;
It states “Prisoners can communicate with the media in three ways”.
One is via writtencorrespondence, a second way is by prison visits and another way is via telephone.
Section 1.2 of PSI 37/2010 states;
..if a prisoner wishes to contact the media by telephone and the call is intended or likely to be published or broadcast by radio or television or posted on the Internet the prisoner must first apply in writing to the Governor for permission.
The Governor must decide whether to permit the application in liaison with Press Office.
This will only be allowed in exceptional circumstances where the prisoner intends to make serious representations about matters of legitimate public interest affecting prisoners, including where appropriate an alleged miscarriage of justice in the prisoners’ own case, and where the other criteria in Section 3 are met
It is the role of the Scottish prison service to observe and monitor the security and behaviour of high risk offenders like deceptive, manipulative and abusive killer Luke Mitchell.
The Scottish prison service are also meant to identify and respond to breaches of security and order, which on this occasion they appear to have done.
Will There Be A Thorough Investigation By The Scottish Prison Service & Police Scotland Now That The Manipulative Murderer Has Been Moved Back To Closed Prison Conditions?
Sandra Lean
Con-artist Sandra Lean has today (16th June 2023) published a short live video to her Facebook social media accounts confirming that the actual, factual psychopathic murderer Luke Mitchell has finally been returned to closed prison conditions.
How and why he was ever deemed suitable for semi open prison conditions and given access to a mobile phone should be thoroughly investigated!
A reason why offenders like psychopathic murderer Luke Mitchell are sent back to closed prison conditions, is because they pose a high risk to the public and cannot be trusted or properly monitored in semi or open prison conditions.
Sandra Lean previously stated;
Luke has the absolute right to engage with media about his case
Sandra Lean’s Blatant Lies
Again, what Sandra Lean failed to highlight to all those people she is duping is the fact that Sandra is not a member of the media!
Not only is Sandra Lean not a member of the media she is also not a member of any media union, like the national union for journalists (NUJ).
The NUJ were referred to in Part 222 of this blog series which can be read by tapping on the button below;
We found out this morning that he was no longer in Greenock, couldn’t find out where he was, he did manage to get a message out to say that he has been moved back to Shotts
Sandra Lean is pretending to all the people her and the dangerous, psychopathic murderer Luke Mitchell are duping with their innocence fraud phenomenon narratives, that he has been moved back to closed prison conditions because ofthe “system”.
Again in reality, killer Luke Mitchell has been moved back to closed prison conditions (HMP Shotts) because he poses a high risk to the public and he cannot be trusted in semi or open prison conditions!
Sandra Lean concluded her 3 minute Facebook live video stating;
He is being punished for using a legitimate prison phone
For a legitimate interview
That was legitimately published
There was nothing legitimate in what the manipulative murderer Luke Mitchell did!
Sandra Lean does not represent or work for the media!
And at no time was a legitimate media interview held or legitimately published!
It is the role of the Scottish prison service to observe and monitor the security and behaviour of offenders like manipulative killer Luke Mitchell.
The Scottish prison service are also meant to identify and respond to breaches of security and order, which on this occasion they appear to have done.
Charlatan & Fraudster Sandra Lean Is NOT A Member Of The Media!
Sandra Lean has today (14th June 2023) published the following to her Facebook social media accounts;
Sandra Lean Is NOT A Member Of The Media
Why did the highly manipulative killer Luke Mitchell, who clearly cannot be trusted, have access to a mobile phone in the first place?
Sandra Lean stated;
Luke has the absolute right to engage with media about his case
This may well be the case, but Sandra Lean is NOT a member of the media!
Not only is Sandra Lean not a member of the media she is also not a member of the national union of journalists (NUJ), therefore their codes of conduct do not apply to Sandra Lean – and in turn the convicted killer.
Journalists Codes Of Conduct & The NUJ
The national union of journalism website states in part (here);
The code of conduct has set out the main principles of UK and Irish journalism since 1936.
The code is part of the rules of the union.
The code’s purpose is to advise members, and other journalists, on how to carry out their work ethically. It has been used by journalists over the decades to challenge unethical instructions and produce content that is “honestly conveyed, accurate and fair”.
The NUJ website also states the following;
Grief & Distress To The Killers Secondary Victims
Killer and pathological liar Luke Mitchell’s long and whinging rant from HMP Greenock could not be fact checked and the public were not given the prison’s side of the story.
The untrustworthy killer mentioned the name of an “expensive burger chain” which was an unnecessary advertisement and possibly done for self serving means.
Some of the content of the killers long and whinging prison rant could “lead to hatredor discrimination” and could well lead to yet more “grief and distress” for his secondary victims.
If killer Luke Mitchell is unhappy with the Scottish prison service he should seek advice from a lawyer.
Ronnie Mothersole who is referred to in Part 130 of this ongoing blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below, already appears to be making yet further threats – this time to the prison Governor;
NOTE: The following has been reproduced for study and educational purposes only
Following the exposure of psychopathic killer Simon Hall’s actual, factual guilt to his murder and his and his enablers innocence fraud, Billy Middleton published the following to his WAP website;
Unsurprisingly, the MOJ community has been damaged with many feeling bitter and betrayed as they stand up for those they believe are innocent.
Billy (William) Middleton
It’s understandable, particularly for those who played no part in the train crash that was the latter stages of his online presence or behind the scenes in some cases too, or the many who tried in vain to stop it.
Many people put a lot of time and effort into researching the case, trying to help find the truth in any way they could, and who can blame any of them for feeling they should’ve spent the years on someone/something else instead – that it was a waste of time and effort?
They are not to blame for their carefully considered opinions, and shouldn’t be condemned for having the courage and commitment to look beyond the trial verdict when it’s made so incredibly hard find support for doing so.
Nor should any other potential MOJ victims be further vilified for their own plights or the people who support them, and the media shouldn’t be criticised for doing what a society with a free press requires that it should – to probe and question an otherwise effectively unaccountable system.
There is worry about other cases being taken seriously in future, and the many who know of someone who was investigated by SIO Roy Lambert they believe is innocent in particular are finding it hard to witness his gloating whether he’s right or not.
Change is always disconcerting, and things will certainly be different now, though for some the effects will be deeper and longer lasting than for others.
Simon’s family have dealt with this remarkably well and people shouldn’t be too quick to condemn their continued belief in his innocence, after all it might very well be true.
The Ministry of Justice said a confession by a person serving a life sentence would have “no impact” on the minimum tariff they would have to serve before being considered for release.
But it knows perfectly well, as does anyone who knows anything about miscarriages of justice, that maintaining innocence does impact on how far beyond the minimum tariff a person would ultimately serve and others have confessed for that specific reason only to go on and challenge their convictions upon release.
Simon might well have been progressing better than others through the prison system in that respect despite maintaining innocence, and it very much looked like he was about to join the exceptionally rare few who were released on or close to minimum tariff despite it, but there is little doubt in my mind that someone sending the parole board an abusive letter over a dispute where he could be reintegrated into society upon release shortly before his confession will have done that progress absolutely no good whatsoever.
So what do the MOJ community, the media and other related parties have to do now in the wake of this?
In reality despite the damage it has caused far and wide, everyone needs to do the same thing they’ve always had to do – consider the evidence separate from their emotions and judge it for what it is, present it as it is and not stop looking and questioning everything until the answers have been found as they should have been in the first place – beyond reasonable doubt.
People supporting someone incarcerated for something they believe they haven’t done need to look at how Simon was supported and learn from the mistakes, whether his confession is true or not, because while it’s easy to blame him in isolation for the harm done, if it’s a false confession your loved ones never ever ever need put in the position he was in to end up with and you can’t do that looking only at the 10 letter word confessionand his other perceived option may well have been suicide if he really just couldn’t take it anymore.
You need to look at the evidence and all that went on before it and see how wrong it was.
The media need do the same before dropping the evidence box and giving too much air space to irrational certainty, they still need to hold accountable the justice system which has a proven track record of getting it wrong and being openly willing to admit that in their view it’s better an innocent person is kept in prison than the system’s “integrity” is affected, otherwise they become no better than the pseudo press found in countries controlled by dictators and there will be nothing to prevent any authority in the country doing whatever it wants regardless of the evidence
So did everyone who actually knows the case with the exception of retired SIO Roy Lambert, who has now found a voice on the subject and started proclaiming arrogantly in the media to have never once doubted Simon’s guilt, did everyone else including myself, those involved in the Rough Justice documentary, the CCRC, the DPP and many, many others get it wrong?
It’s possible, and without knowing the circumstances and details of the confession it can’t be and mustn’t be ruled out.
However despite how readily people think ‘no one would confess if they didn’t do it’, that can’t be ruled out either, not least because just one of the many pieces of evidence pointing away from Simon’s guilt is that someone else confessed many years ago before Simon was convicted.
DNA, fingerprints, footprints along the accepted escape route found at the scene, none of which matched Simon’s, stomach contents pointing to an earlier time of death which coincided with a disturbance heard by many neighbours, not a trace with the exception of the infamous flock fibres which formed the sole basis of the prosecution’s case against him hence Mr Starmer’s continued quote “The one crucial link is the fibre evidence. Break this and the case disappears.”
You would expect then that the fibre evidence was strong and compelling, yet one slide claimed by the original experts to contain 1000+ such fibres actually contained absolutely none, zero, zilch, de nada, squat, when the CCRC’s expert reviewed it, other slides were broken and stuck together with sticky tape, and what had been described as lime green polyester was actually carbon black.
That is the credibility of the fibre evidence and the only evidence Roy Lambert could present so sure as he was of Simon’s guilt in the face of everything else, and it is that level of contradiction of the original evidence that the appeal courts upheld his conviction on describing the original forensics as ‘incomplete’ rather than completely and utterly false.
Which is more probable, that after Simon’s last appeal was rejected, knowing that it was the best chance he was ever going to have, which was followed my months and months of psychological abuse and mind games by the person who drove every last one of the thousands of supporters he had away with vile and malicious on and offline feuds such that he finally couldn’t take any more, he cracked, or that Roy Lambert was right all along despite all of the evidence to the contrary and everyone else was wrong?
I don’t discount the possibility that I’m wrong, but I remain as yet unconvinced that I am and if further details are forthcoming I will reassess it then
That doesn’t mean I don’t respect the fact that a confession has been made or refuse to accept it no matter what, I’m simply unconvinced on the evidence that it’s true or that it was made by a sound mind – particularly considering he was in receipt of medication for depression and had recently been rushed to hospital following an overdose which may or may not have been accidental.
I personally lost respect for Simon some time ago but I didn’t lose the compassion and humanity I would need to before I could ignore the above, the facts of the past don’t get erased by the words of the present.
By Billy (William) Middleton – 11th August 2013 (Originally published here)
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In a long and whinging rant from HMP Greenock/Crisswell House, the sadistic and psychopathic murderer Luke Mitchell has again used similar manipulative tactics as his flying monkey and toxic and abusive enabler Sandra Lean.
Once again in a move right out of the DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse, Victim & Offender) playbook killer Luke Mitchell has made the claim staff at HMP Greenock/Crisswell House have been “psychologically abusing and torturing” him and he refers to them as “nazi’s”.
Unable To Make Distinctions Between Fantasy & Reality & Lacking Normal Moral Judgement
Interestingly in May 2019 during a video with James English his adoptee mother Corinne Mitchell referred to her killer son’s head teacher at St David’s High School in Dalkeith, Midlothian as “Hitler in a skirt”.
The psychopathic killer is using illegal drugs and is frustrated because he keeps getting caught, after failing prison drug tests.
He clearly cannot be trusted in semi open prison conditions.
According to a letter seemingly written by charlatan and fraudster Sandra Lean “..he was left with no other option” than to speak out and tell the public he still cannot be trusted.
Drug abuse was one of his risk factors when he committed his violent murder almost 20 years ago.
Lord Nimmo Smith stated in 2005 of the illegal drugs the sadistic killer was abusing at the time he chose to commit his murder;
I do not subscribe to the notion that this is a harmless recreational drug
In your case, I think that it may well have contributed to your being unable to make the distinction between fantasy and reality which is essential for normal moral judgments
It may be that a lack of emotional response made you more readily able to inflict harm on others
The bizarre letter (seemingly written by Sandra Lean) also stated that after failing drug tests killer Luke Mitchell allegedly wasn’t given “adequate explanation” for his punishment;
Three months later, he was told that those 4 months had been further extended to 9 months – all without adequate explanation (and, indeed, the “explanations” given are ludicrous and clearly intended to frustrate and psychologically break him)
Scottish Prison Service
The role of the Scottish prison service is to observe and monitor the security and behaviour of offenders like manipulative killer Luke Mitchell.
The Scottish prison service are also meant to identify and respond to breaches of security and order.
How and why is this dangerous and highly manipulative offender getting away with his exploitative and abusive behaviour and why is he seemingly not being sufficiently monitored?
INNOCENCE FRAUD WATCH 