14th August 2003 ~ “Yes, I can verify that my mother and my brother had a fire”
During his section 14 interview on 14th August 2003, sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell told the police his mother Corinne and his brother Shane Mitchell had a fire in their garden on the evening he committed his murder.
Below are extracts from Sgt George Thomson’s trial testimony;
Alan Turnbull: Right. And he was asked whether the log burner and his back garden was lit that night, that’s Monday the 30th?
Sgt George Thomson: Yes
Alan Turnbull: And what was his answer to that?
Sgt George Thomson: “Yes, I can verify that my mother and my brother had a fire”
Alan Turnbull: Right. So he says that his mother and his brother had a fire that night?
3rd September 2003
Less than 3 weeks later the murderer gave a Sky News interview to James Matthews, on the very day that Jodi Jones was laid to rest, pretending he knew nothing about his fires.
Below are excerpts from the Sky interview;
James Matthews: This burning of clothes keeps getting mentioned and there is also the subject of a missing knife, is that your missing knife?
Murderer Luke Mitchell: No. The burning clothes that wasn’t us. They just stated that a female relative of the suspect admitted to burning clothes
James Matthews: Was that you or anyone connected to you?
The murderers trousers, hidden in the hold-all, were found by police in the Mitchell’s house in Newbattle abbey crescent, Mayfield – not in his father Philip’s house in Livingston.
Scott C Forbes continues to publish lies and nonsense.
On Friday 16th February 2024 Ana Justice tweeted the following;
Ana Justice has been obtaining copies of trial transcripts, in relation to sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell from the Scottish courts, and subsequently publishing them online.
Tap on the button below for links to trial transcripts;
Scott C Forbes has also been making false allegations, accusing Ana Justice of “doctoring official court documents”;
Motivations For Stalking
According to Stalkers And Their Victims (here) research byPaul E. Mullen, Michele Pathé and Rosemary Purcell say that the “resentful” stalkers stalking “is designed to inflict fear and distress”.
According to the public prosecution services for Northern Ireland website here, they state;
There are many reasons why a person may stalk another and there is no such thing as a ‘typical’ stalking perpetrator.
The ‘Stalking Risk Profile’ – developed by Mullan et al of Melbourne University – assists investigators and prosecutors in understanding stalking behaviour and risk. This profile divides stalkers into five types and considers the context in which the stalking arises and the stalker’s motivation for contacting the victim:
The Rejected Stalker – Rejected stalking arises in the context of the breakdown of a close relationship. Victims are usually former sexual intimates; however, family members, close friends, or others with a very close relationship to the stalker can also become targets of Rejected stalking
The Resentful stalker – Resentful stalking arises when the stalker feels as though they have been mistreated or that they are the victim of some form of injustice or humiliation. Victims are strangers or acquaintances who are seen to have mistreated the stalker.
The Intimacy Seeking stalker – Intimacy seeking stalking arises out of a context of loneliness and a lack of a close confidante. Victims are usually strangers or acquaintances who become the target of the stalker’s desire for a relationship. Frequently Intimacy Seeking stalkers’ behaviour involves delusional beliefs about the victim, such as the belief that they are already in a relationship, even though none exists.
The Incompetent Suitor – The Incompetent suitor stalks in the context of loneliness or lust and targets strangers or acquaintances. Unlike the Intimacy Seeker, however, their initial motivation is not to establish a loving relationship, but to get a date or a short term sexual relationship. Incompetent Suitors usually stalk for brief periods, but when they do persist, their behaviour is usually maintained by the fact that they are blind or indifferent to the distress of the victim.
The Predatory Stalker – Predatory stalking arises in the context of deviant sexual practices and interests. Perpetrators are usually male and victims are usually female strangers in whom the stalker develops a sexual interest. The stalking behaviour is usually initiated as a way of obtaining sexual gratification (e.g., voyeurism targeting a single victim over time), but can also be used as a way of obtaining information about the victim as a precursor to a sexual assault, the most dangerous leading to serious attack.
Excerpts from the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Services website here
Scammer Sandra Lean claimed she had contacted her publisher (convicted criminal Stephen T Manning/Checkpoint press Ireland) to withdraw her 1st innocence fraud book No Smoke on the 4th October 2019. Read more here
Now that more of Sandra Lean’s intentional bare faced lies, disinformation and misinformation are being exposed by her former “followers” via trial transcripts etc, when will Sandra Lean withdraw her 2nd innocence fraud book? The same applies to fraudster Scott Forbes and his 1st innocence fraud book.
Below are links to a few of the sources where both Sandra Lean and Scott Forbes’ bare faced lies, disinformation and misinformation have been, and continue to be exposed.
Scammer Sandra Lean and her former boyfriend, un-convicted baby killer Billy Middleton were involved in killer Sean Toal’s public relations innocence fraud spin campaign:
In reality – killers Sean Toal and Luke Mitchell had been cohorts since at least 2010.
Sandra Lean has remained (publicly) silent since her bare faced lies, disinformation and misinformation are being exposed by trial transcripts but she recently commented on murderer Sean Toal on Facebook;
Nicola Brennan, who was referred to in Part 296here commented on Sandra’s post;
Whilst over on X Heather Brunt, who was referred to in Part 288here also tweeted on killer Sean Toal – commenting on how fraudster Scott Forbes “worked on his case”;
Tap on the button below to read more about fraudster Scott Forbes;
Killer Sean Toal also refers to himself as Social Sessions on various social media platforms, as well as @seanaldo1985 on X.
Social Sessions tweeted Neil MacKay on the 4th December 2023;
Neil MacKay was involved in the fraudulent 2021 channel 5 TV show Murder In A Small Town. Neil MacKay was referred to in Parts 261 and 265 of this ongoing blog series, both of which can be read by tapping on the buttons below;
On the 7th December 2023 killer Sean Toal asked John Halley to message him.
John Halley was arrested in March 2023 for sex offences (Read more here) and had also been promoting scammer Sandra Lean’s nonsense on social media, although he too has recently gone quiet on this.
Again – since trial transcripts have been published, Sandra Lean has remained silent
Tap on the button below for links to trial transcripts;
Was Sonia Poulton motivated by money when she chose to promote the innocence fraud of sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell and his chief enablers Scott Forbes and Sandra Lean?
Sonia Poulton appears to have carried out zero due diligence.
Now that trial transcripts are being published will Sonia Poulton retract her previous nonsense?
Some of Sonia Poulton’s sanctimonious nonsense was as follows;
14-year-old Jodi Jones was murdered in Edinburgh in 2003. Her boyfriend, Luke Mitchell, was convicted & sentenced 20 years. But did Scottish police & media make a murderer of an innocent 15-year-old boy? Full shocking conversation from 32.00 https://t.co/0728VZsdtu@scforbes1965pic.twitter.com/AkNy9mdpYD
His mum is absolutely another victim of this, Barra. The way people came after her was heartbreaking. Already dealing with the 'loss' of her child she had to deal with the 'hate'. Just awful. Love to you. x
You were great. Cameras don't have to be your 'strong point' you're not Philip Schofield (thankfully!!!). That is amazing that Corrine Mitchell contacted you. God bless her. She's been through hell.
As is evidenced in the above screenshot, someone called Nicki Mac chose to post a comment under InnocenceFraud’s Facebook post (and attached link) stating “Let’s talk about Joan Albert”.
It turns out that Nicki Mac is the girlfriend of pretend lawyer and warped minded, fantasist Scott Forbes.
On 6th of July 2022 Nicki Mac (McIntyre) announced on the cult-like Facebook group supporting sadistic killer Luke Mitchell, that Scott Forbes was her bf = boyfriend.
Nicki Mac’s Boyfriend & His Projections
On 4th of September 2022, during a YouTube rant with con-artist Sandra Lean, Scott Forbes stated;
I’ve got a stalker Stephanie Hall, I’ll come back to.. and erm.. genuine stalker.. genuinely like to family and friends and erm..
I’ll take her to court..
I welcome anyone to take me to court, please, Jane Hamilton, the Daily Record, anyone, please we”ll go to court and take the stand and take an oath and and I’ll question them, they’re all fucked, they’re in for trouble
Scott Forbes – 4th September 2022 here (Reproduced for evidential purposes)
Scott Forbes (Right)
On 4th October 2022 a video was published to YouTube by someone called PremeditatedPatter in which (At around 1:56:15 of the video) Scott Forbes refers to his imaginary “stalker(s)” and made the following statements;
And I’ve got a couple of stalkers, genuine stalkers. I’ve got one called Stephanie Hall right, just a quick one. She married a man called Simon Hall years ago. Simon Hall was a convicted rapist murderer, he killed an old age pensioner and then she married him. And then allegedly he killed himself, allegedly he confessed to this murder so she feels scorned. She, she got taken in by a murderer, married him and now everybody that claims to be a miscarriage of justice erm are all liars (sic)
Scott Forbes – October 2022 (Reproduced for evidential purposes)
Note how pretend lawyer Scott Forbes used the word “allegedly” before he stated the words “he killed himself” and “confessed to thismurder”.
The word allegedly is “used to convey that something is claimed to be the case or have taken place, although there is no proof”.
Actually, factually guilty killer Simon Hall did admit to his murder and did kill himself.
Therefore there is nothing “allegedly” about these two events.
Both events occurred and there is proof that both events occurred.
In fact on the day he killed himself charlatan and con-artist Sandra Lean took it upon herself to announce killer Simon Hall’s death on a couple of Internet forums;
For some people there is no attempt at changing horses mid stream.
Once you are caught in a web of deceit it is almost impossible to escape.
Allowing oneself first and foremost to become entangled out of sheer foolishness will not change.
It didn’t appear Nicki Mac had bothered to click on the link to read and absorb the content of the blog, because she continued to make a slew of Facebook posts, tagging in InnocenceFraud with deluded statements about “stalking” and being “obsessed with Scott”, and even made one bizarre statement of ‘..away and obsess over your murdering rapist husband’.
Joan Albert was a woman who was brutally murdered on 16th of December 2001 by a man called Simon Hall.
Read more on Joan Albert, and how her close friends and neighbours Mr and Mrs Twoose found her lying “at the bottom of the stairs” of her home early on Sunday morning of 16th of December 2001, by tapping on the below link to Part 1 of The Truth Behind Killer Simon Hall & His Enablers #InnocenceFraud Phenomenon Scam ongoing blog series;
Warped minded abuser and deluded fantasist Nicki Mac’s, equally deluded boyfriend Scott Forbes also stated during his “chat” with Sandra Lean;
And she claims he made a confession so he’s made a fool of her by telling her he’s really an innocent man and then years later he tells her he done what he did now
I don’t know what happened I’ve not examined the case to pass it
Scott Forbes – 4th September 2022 (Reproduced for evidential purposes)
Some more of Scott Forbes lies, smears and delusions were published in Part 49 of this blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below;
Sandra Lean Wrote About Killer Simon Hall & His Murder Through Out Her First Innocence Fraud Book No Smoke
As stated previously, “professional” con-artist Sandra Lean wrote about actually, factually guilty killer Simon Hall through out her first discredited book – which is still for sale.
Chapter 5 of said book can be read by tapping on the button below;
Mr Twoose, who found Joan Albert, spoke to a reporter in June 2002 and stated the following;
She was lying at the bottom of the stairs. I never for one second imagined foul play. Even when I saw the knife next to her body I thought she must have got up in the night to feed her dog Rusty using the knife to cut up his food and then had a heart attack
My eyesight isn’t very good so when I saw a patch of red in the lower part of her stomach I thought it was a pattern on her night dress
I believe it must have soaked into the carpet. The position of the body was very strange
Her head was against the wall and both her arms were raised above her head in two “C” shapes
At that time I still thought it must have been an accident. She was on warfarin and I thought the fall could have caused the blood
I pulled the kitchen blind up to get some light. That was when I saw some broken glass by the kitchen window. There were no other signs of a break in
By the time con-artist Sandra Lean wrote and published her 1st innocence fraud book in 2007 the “broken glass by the kitchenwindow” (which was on a window sill below the window, as well as a sink and large worktop), had miraculously moved by itself the following year, when killer Simon Hall’s adoptive mother Lynne Hall had been taken to Joan Albert’s home by Suffolk police to check to see if anything had been stolen.
Cover of Sandra Lean’s discredited book ’No Smoke’ published in 2008 by fraudster Stephen T Manning/Checkpoint press
Sandra Lean stated in her book;
Lynne Hall, Simon’s mother, was taken to the victims house by two officers on January 8th to check whether anything was missing. (Mrs Hall was a friend of Mrs Albert’s, and often helped the older lady out).
Neither Mrs Hall nor the police officers were wearing protective clothing (although full forensic examination of the house had not been carried out), but things were touched, and broken glass trodden in.
Therefore, the house and its content are likely to have been contaminated by Mrs Hall, and the officers.
Excerpt by Sandra Lean from her first discredited book No Smoke (foot of page 70 – top of page 71)
Forensic examination of Joan Albert’s property had already been completed by the time Lynne Hall was taken to the property, and there was no glass on the floor to be “trodden in”.
At the end of her chapter 5 Sandra Lean went on to state;
Given the purely circumstantial nature of the Simon Hall case, it would seem pertinent to introduce other circumstantial events that may require further examination. At 12.30pm, Sunday 25th November 2005 (exactly 3 weeks prior to the discovery of Mrs Albert’s body) Mabel Leyshon (90) was found dead in her home in Lon Pant, Llanfairpwll, on Anglesey. She had been stabbed repeatedly, following a break-in. The similarities are striking, both were elderly women living alone, both were subjected to brutal and frenzied knife attacks, both had their houses broken into, and both were killed on a Saturday night and discovered on a Sunday. Both were also security conscious, Bothere confirmed alive and well on the Saturday.
Excerpt by Sandra Lean from her first discredited book No Smoke (foot of page 80 top of page 81)
Psychopathic killer Mathew Hardman was arrested and convicted of his murder of Mabel Leyshon in 2002 – 5-6 years BEFORE Sandra Lean published her book!
“Mrs Beasty Brain” & “Sicko” Nicki Mac
All of Nicki Mac’s gaslighting Facebook posts made to Innocence Fraud demonstrated Nicki Mac was/is an abusive, warped minded, deluded fantasist, similar to how her boyfriend Scott Forbes continues to show himself to be.
Nicki Mac wasn’t at all interested in talking about Joan Albert, as when Innocence Fraud replied with the following Facebook post;
deluded Nicki Mac replied stating “Ive at no stage mentioned the case”;
Nicki Mac also made it quite clear she couldn’t care less about Joan Albert – she couldn’t even be bothered to get her age correct, even after Nicki Mac herself had posted a media link which clearly displayed Joan Albert’s correct age;
Interested To Hear What Nicki Mac Has To Say About Charlatan & Con-Artist Sandra Lean & What “Attracted” Nicki Mac To Psycho Killer Luke Mitchell
Nicki Mac then appeared to delete her Facebook posts and/or blocked Innocence Fraud.
Below is what Sandra Lean wrote about actual, factual, guilty murderer Simon Hall in 2011;
‘skeleton statements’
Conviction Upheld ‘This decision is an affront to justice. The CPS knows that there was another burglary that evening in Capel. They know that the SOCOs went directly from that crime scene to the murder scene. They know that there was DNA on the knife that did not belong to Simon, that the original fibre investigation concluded no match for the fibres, and that the jury was misled into believing that the knife that was used to kill Mrs Albert must have come from an opened drawer in her own kitchen. They also know that another man confessed to this murder. So why do they insist on keeping an innocent man in prison, and refusing to acknowledge the existence of this other evidence? What can possibly be gained by allowing the real perpetrators to remain free and unpunished? We will not rest until the whole truth of this case has been made public, and that includes the collusion and cover-up which has allowed this gross miscarriage of justice to persist for so long, and which, sadly, in light of today’s decision, will be allowed to continue. We will never give up the fight for justice for Simon. The truth will come out – all of it. The DPP himself said that without the fibre evidence, there was no case. The fibre evidence has now been discredited – why is Simon to remain in prison for another man’s crime? Sandra Lean, who featured Simon’s case in her book “No Smoke” said this morning, This is a dark day for British Justice. This decision tells us that the justice system in this country would rather allow murderers to walk among us, and innocent men to languish in prison for crimes they did not commit, than simply admit, “We got it wrong.” Any other industry behaving in this way would be closed down – the justice industry is answerable to no-one. The fight for Simon Hall’s freedom goes on.
Sandra Lean – 1st January 2011
Read more by tapping on the button below to Part 13 of this blog series;
On another Facebook post for the cult-like group “supporting” the sadistic, psychopathic murderer Luke Mitchell, Kirsty Hesp asked;
Kirsty Hesp
Were the friends from the Abbey who was with Luke that night interviewed and can confirm what time he arrived and left?.x
Kirsty Hesp
Kirsty Hesp
Ana Azaria
Note how Ana Azaria states in her reply to Kirsty Hesp, “I don’t have any specific details from statements given” and appears content to rely on snippets and second hand interpretations from a proven pusher of innocence fraud – ie Sandra Lean;
Yes, they were interviewed, it’s also mentioned in the 2008 appeal document.
Luke was seen at 6pm by 3 boys he knew from school sitting on a wall (the point he said he was waiting for Jodi).
He said he waited around 45 minutes, then met a friend after 7pm (this friend spoke at the trial) and arrived home around 9.05pm.
I don’t have any specific details from statements given by his friends but they did confirm that they were with him at the Abbey.
Ana Azalia
Ana Azaria
Ana Azaria also doesn’t appear phased by the fact that if the murderer was waiting for Jodi Jones for around 45 minutes like he alleged, why didn’t he show any concern for his now late and missing girlfriend – who had asthma and no mobile phone?
Who else witnessed seeing killer Luke Mitchell in these alleged 45 minutes Ana Azaria?
Kirsty Hesp
This is all just ridiculous…xx
Kirsty Hesp
Kirsty Hesp
Ronnie Mothersole
Ana Azaria it must be somewhere In their statement on what he was wearing
Ronnie Mothersole
Ana Azaria
Ronnie Mothersole To my knowledge the boys that saw him at the wall said he was wearing the green bomber jacket with orange lining and jeans
Ana Azaria
James Lochrie
Ronnie Mothersole
If Luke had just horrifically Slaughtered Jodi I think these boys would have noticed his demeanor.
You can’t just walk away from something like that and carry on as normal .
Even serial killers would have some kind of high going on .
James Lochrie
James Lochrie
What does James Lochrie base his assumption of a teenage psychopathic killers demeanour on and what exactly is it “these boys” would have noticed in his demeanour?
And where does James Lochrie’s belief of a teenage psychopathic killer not behaving normally after having committed murder come from?
What image does James Lochrie have in his head of a ‘serial killer” after they have committed murder?
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