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

Excerpts from a 10th June 2015 article by Bree Bonchay headed Happily Never After: Decoding Narcissistic Devaluation 

Sunday 29th June 2003: Allegedly John Ferris Supplied Luke Mitchell With 2oz Of Cannabis. John Ferris Allegedly “Fled” The Dalkeith Area After The Mitchell Family Threatened Him. He “….was threatened when he left court by Mitchell’s elder brother, Shane” (Media Article Here)

Monday 30th June 2003: Jodi Jones & Luke Mitchell Sat Next To One Another In Their RE (religious education) Class At School, Which Was Their First Lesson Of The Day

Did Luke Mitchell Tell Jodi Jones🌻Of His Plans To Holiday In Kenmore On The 5th July 2003?

Midday: Jodi Jones🌻 & Luke Mitchell Met At Lunchtime & Went To The China Garden. Luke Mitchell Stated “At lunch break, we went up to Dalkeith, me Jodi🌻 & David High. We were just bored because half the school were away on trips”. Luke Mitchell Told Police He Gave Jodi🌻 Some Of His Coca Cola (Brown Liquid Was Found In Jodi’s🌻Stomach). Alistair Leitch Was Also At The China Garden ‘Mr Leitch said: “Luke rolled joints pretty much every day” He alleged that Mr Mitchell provided the cannabis most of the time’ (Media Articles Here & Here)

Jodi Jones’🌻 Friend Kirsten Ford Stated “The day she died was like any other but when I look back, she was a bit quiet” (Media Article Here)

3:30pm Shane Mitchell Was In Broxburn Buying Car Parts (Source Trial Testimony Page 2023 Here)

3:40pm Shane Mitchell Lied & Claimed In His 1st Police Witness Statement (3rd July 2003) That He Arrived Home From Work At 15:40 (Trial Testimony Pages 2020 Here & 2165 Here)

4:00pm Jodi Jones🌻Caught The Bus Home From School Arriving Home Just After 16:00 “One 40-year-old, who did not want to be named, said: “I saw Jodi🌻on her way back from school on Monday afternoon and she walked past my house looking like she didn’t have a care in the world. “She was a very friendly girl from a very nice family. She was always at school. I always saw her getting on and off the school bus” (Media Article Here)

Luke Mitchell Alleged He Walked Home From School. But It Is Not Known What Happened To His Other Bike (More Here) His Yellow Framed Bike Along With His Khaki Hooded Parka Jacket, Shirt, Knives & Other Items Were Found To Be Missing After He Committed His Murder

Luke Mitchell Was Seen In A Park On His Push Bike At Some Point

4:01pm Luke Mitchell Made A Telephone Call From The Mitchell’s Home Landline To Scots Caravans & Apparently Spoke To His Adoptive Grandmother Ruby Guetta (Source Trial Transcripts Here) Ruby Guetta Went On To Allege In 2007 That Killer Luke Mitchell Had Telephoned Her At 4:25pm “I spoke to him at 4.25pm that day. Luke was his normal self when he phoned. He was asking what he should take out of the freezer for dinner” No Landline Calls Were Made Between 4:01pm & 9:57pm Corinne Mitchell Stated “The police didn’t even take a statement from my mother yet she was the first person to speak to Luke when he returned from school” (Media Article Here)

4:04pm Shane Mitchell Telephoned His Home Landline Using His Mobile & Spoke To His Brother Luke Mitchell (Source Trial Transcripts Here)

4:34pm Jodi Jones🌻 Was Sat In The Living Room With Her Mother Judith Jones Who Played A Rod Stewart Song For Her Youngest Daughter🌻Before Jodi🌻 Got Ready To Go Out To Meet Luke Mitchell (Media Article Here)

4:35pm Jodi Jones🌻 Sent A Text Message To Luke Mitchell. Jodi’s🌻Phone Was Broken So She Borrowed Her Mother Judith Jones’ Mobile Phone. The Context Of Jodi Jones’🌻Text Messages Were Unable To Be Recovered (Source Page 42 Of Dc Alan Towers Testimony Here)

4:36pm Luke Mitchell Replied To Jodi Jones’🌻Text Message, Sending His Reply Back To Judith Jones’ Mobile Phone (Source Page 42 Of Dc Alan Towers Testimony Here)

4:37pm (Approx): Luke Mitchell Went To Meet Jodi Jones🌻 The 2008 CoA Judgement Got The Date Wrong At Para 162 ‘…the appellant told the police at interview on 4 July 2003 that he and Jodi🌻 would sit on the other side of the wall from the Roan’s Dyke Path near to the gap in the wall at the junction of the two paths and “have a cigarette or whatever” Killer Luke Mitchell Stated This In His 1st July 2003 Statement

Killer Luke Mitchell Told Police On The 4th July 2003 That His Brother Shane Mitchell Was Not At Home When He Left To Meet Jodi Jones🌻(Source Trial Testimony Pages 2148 & 2149 Here)

4:38pm Jodi Jones🌻 Replied To Luke Mitchell’s 4:36pm Text Message Via Her Mothers Mobile (Source Page 42 Of Dc Alan Towers Testimony Here)

The 2008 CoA Judgement Wrongly Stated At Para 27 “….the deceased had texted him at 1620, asking if he was coming out. He had replied that he would do so later on, as he had to make dinner. Arrangements were made for the deceased to come down to the Newbattle area but no time was arranged for the meeting” & At Para 28 It Stated “The last text was sent at about 1640. The appellant’s position was that, thereafter, he had listened to music while cooking dinner”

4:45pm (Approx): Shane Mitchell Arrived Home At Newbattle Abbey Crescent (Source Trial Transcripts Here)

16:50: Jodi Jones🌻Left Her Home To Meet With Luke Mitchell & Asked Her Mother Judith Jones To Save Her Some Lasagne For When She Got Back

4:53pm Brother Shane Mitchell Logged Onto The Internet To View “Pornographic Material” & “Gay Sites” On His Computer & Was Masturbating – “The court heard that the final image which had been accessed before the internet session was ended depicted a man who had been digitally altered so his lower half was that of a naked female” (Media Articles Here & Here)

4:53pm Luke Mitchell Telephoned The Speaking Clock

4:54pm (Approx): Andrina Bryson Saw Jodi Jones🌻 & Luke Mitchell At The Easthouses Entrance Of Roan’s Dyke Path “She described the male as wearing a khaki green, hip-length, fishing-style jacket. Its collar was up, and it had a pocket which was bulging. She subsequently picked out a photograph of (Luke) Mitchell although did not identify him at court” Andrina Bryson Had Also Said He “Looked like Shaggy from Skooby Doo” (Source Here & Here)

5:00pm-5:05pm (Approx): Leonard Kelly Heard A ‘Strangling’ Sound Behind The Wall.  “There was a noise like someone had someone else in a headlock. It was a strangling, human sound. “It came from the other side of the wall which ran on my left” “I slowed down and kept listening but I never heard anything else so I continued on” “Mr Kelly admitted that he had been haunted ever since by his decision not to do anything” Leonard Kelly arrived home at around 5:10pm-5:15pm (Source Here)

Killer Luke Mitchell Is Said To Have “…repeatedly struck her (Jodi Jones🌻) on the head and body, compressed her throat and restricted her breathing and caused her🌻 to fall to the ground”🌻”He is alleged to have applied a ligature around her (Jodi Jones🌻) arms and repeatedly struck her🌻 on the head, mouth and body with a knife or similar instrument and murdered her”🌻Killer Luke “Mitchell is accused of striking Jodi🌻 on the head and body with a knife or similar instrument and in particular her🌻 face, ear, mouth, breast and abdomen.
He is also charged with carrying a knife or knives at various places in Dalkeith and in Kenmore, Perthshire, and supplying cannabis to 20 people, including Jodi”🌻  

Anthony Busuttil, Who Carried Out The Post-Mortem Told The Jury “..the cheek wound penetrated the skin to a depth of around half an inch and adds it would have occurred “around the time of death”🌻 “..the main artery in the neck had been cut seven-eighths of the way through” “The jugular vein had also been cut right through and the main nerve has also been nicked… the slash has gone though all three structures”. Alan Turnbull QC asked Professor Busittil “That sort of damage would be fatal?” Professor Busuttil replied “That would be fatal almost immediately”. ‘..there were a minimum of 12 superficial and deep cuts to the neck area and a hole had been cut in the windpipe’, ‘the tissue around Jodi’s🌻eye had also been cut and says there were other cuts to her🌻ear, forehead, arm, abdomen and breast’. Alan Turnbull QC asked Professor Busuttil ‘if the injuries were caused by a knife’. He replied: “Provided it was stout enough and sharp enough the answer is yes”. Professor Busuttil was shown a folding knife and agreed it was “something of this ilk” which caused the damage. Professor Anthony Busuttil also told the jury ‘that Jodi’s🌻killer had been careful and deliberate when mutilating her🌻body “At that stage, he or she knows exactly what they are up to” “They want to cut certain parts of the body and are taking time and effort not just to cut once but more than once, in the areas they intend to mutilate” Professor Busuttil added ‘that there had been “no attempt made to dismember” Jodi’s🌻body’ (Media Article Here)

“Forensic scientist Derek Scrimger told the High Court in Edinburgh Jodi🌻, 14, may have crawled or been dragged to the spot where she was found. But he added that there was no evidence the attacker would have been bloodstained after the assault. Mr Scrimger said the pattern of bloodstains was consistent with an artery being severed. Blood was also found on sticks and the branches of trees in the area. Mr Scrimger said: “Possibly the assailant would have been behind, standing for example.“What many people fail to realise is that at the time of the assault there may not have been much blood there. There wouldn’t necessarily be any blood on the assailant”🌻 (Media Article Here)

5:07pm (Approx): Leonard Kelly Also Heard Something At The Top Of The Path “As I got to the top of the path I heard something in the undergrowth. It gave me a fright too” “It sounded like something had moved to my left on my side of the wall. It was as if an object had landed in the growth””I heard a motorcycle in the woods on the other side of the wall. It seemed quite far away from the wall” (Source Here)

5:07pm Corinne Mitchell Was Captured On CCTV Exiting Scott’s Caravans

5:10pm Corinne Mitchell Was Captured By CCTV In Morning Noon & Night Shop In Newtongrange Buying Cigarette’s & Alcohol (Confirmed By Corinne Mitchell In 2011 Here)

5:15pm The 2008 CoA Judgement Wrongly Stated At Para 28 “The witness Shane Mitchell was not in the house at this time” Shane Mitchell Was Still Using The Internet At 5:15pm

5:16pm Shane Mitchell Ended His Internet Session In His Bedroom At Home In Newbattle Abbey Crescent

5:18pm Corinne Mitchell Claimed She Arrived Home At Newbattle Abbey Crescent

5:25pm (Approx): Killer Luke Mitchell Hid Jodi Jones🌻 Body & Staged His Crime Scene & Set About Putting His Defence In Place

5:32pm After Committing His Murder Killer Luke Mitchell Used His Mobile Telephone To Call Jodi Jones’🌻 House But He Terminated The Call After 2 Seconds, Possibly Because He Could Hear The Moped Being Used By The 2 Youths (Testimony Of Dc Alan Towers Page 48 Here)

5:40pm Killer Luke Mitchell Telephoned Jodi Jones🌻House Again & Spoke To Allen Ovens Pretending Jodi🌻 Had Not Turned Up To Meet Him. The Call Lasted 19 Seconds. Allen Ovens Told The Jury He Had Stated To The Killer “She has already left to meet you” (Media Article Here) Testimony Of Dc Alan Towers Page 48 Here

8 Further Witnesses Saw Killer Luke Mitchell – Rosemary Walsh, Lorraine Fleming, Carol Heatlie, Marion O’Sullivan, Derek Hamilton, Andrew Holburn, Dean Houston & Grant Elliot

5:50pm (Approx): Rosemary Walsh Told The Jury She Was Driving With Lorraine Fleming To A Cash & Carry In Loanhead When She Saw Killer Luke Mitchell Seemingly Leaning On A Gate On Newbattle Road Near The Entrance To Roans Dyke Path. Mrs Walsh Also Saw A Jogger. Killer Luke Mitchell Was Wearing A Khaki Green Parka Jacket & Black Footwear (Media Articles Here, Here & Here & Trial Testimony Here)

5:50pm (Approx): Lorraine Fleming Also Saw Killer Luke Mitchell On Newbattle Abbey Road “He looked like he had been up to no good” (Trial Testimony Here) Media Article Here

5:50pm Andrew Holburn Was Captured On CCTV Inside Morning Noon & Night Shop In Newtongrange, While His Friends Dean Houston & Grant Elliot Waited For Him Outside The Shop (Source Trial Testimony Here)

5:55pm-6:00pm Andrew Holburn, Dean Houston & Grant Elliot Saw Killer Luke Mitchell Standing In A Driveway Just Past Newbattle Abbey Crescent (Source Trial Testimony Here) Media Article Here

Andrew Holburn’s Description Of Killer Luke Mitchell Was “Luke was wearing dark blue baggy jeans and a dark green shirt “It was definitely, definitely a shirt, not a jacket “I think it was buttoned-up but I couldn’t see anything underneath it “It was about down to the waist of his jeans and baggy “I might have seen a shirt like in the window of Flip, it’s a boardy punk shop up the bridges” (Source Trial Testimony Here)

5:58pm Derek Hamilton & Marion O’Sullivan Saw Killer Luke Mitchell In A Driveway On Newbattle Abbey Road. Ms O’Sullivan Told The Jury “He was just standing there … he just looked suspicious. He was not actually doing anything” (Source Here & Here)

6:04pm Shane Mitchell Possibly Made A Call To Someone Using His Mobile Telephone. A Mr Beveridge Was Mentioned During His Testimony At Page 2169 Here

6:05pm Carol Heatlie Saw Killer Luke Mitchell In A Driveway On Newbattle Abbey Road “Carol Heatlie slowed down to look at the youngster who withdrew into a driveway” She said: ‘He was standing on the pavement and down the road. When he saw my car, he quickly stepped back into the driveway out of my view. ‘The fact he stepped back made me wonder what he was doing. I slowed down and watched what he was doing and looked into the driveway. ‘I am sure he saw me looking at him and kind of held his head down to the side’ Media Articles Here & Here (Trial Testimony Here)

6:15pm Grant Elliot Saw Killer Luke Mitchell A Second Time As He Got A Puncture In His Bike Tyre & Had To Go Home. Killer Luke Mitchell Was Still Standing In The Same Spot (Media Article Here)

6:20pm Shane Mitchell Telephoned Gary Coyle From His Mobile & Claimed He Left His Home In Newbattle Abbey Crescent “Just After” Phoning Gary & Apparently Headed Straight To Gary’s House (Source Trial Testimony Here)

6:30pm Patricia Frankland Became Aware Of Smoke From The Mitchell’s Garden When She Went Outside To Feed Her Rabbit. She Also Noticed The Smoke Later That Night At Around 10:00pm

Corinne Mitchell Told The Jury She May Have Been Burning Pampas Grass “She said neighbours who gave statements saying that the log burner in her garden had been used on the evening of the murder were mistaken. Mrs Mitchell said she might have burnt some grass at the time but did not use the burner” (Media Article Here)

Killer Luke Mitchell Was Apparently Not Seen By Anyone Between 6:16pm To Around 7:20pm Which Was The Approx Time He Met With David High

6:32pm Killer Luke Mitchell Telephoned David High & Invited David High Round To The Mitchell’s House (Source Testimony Of Dc Alan Towers Page 47 Here & David High’s Trial Testimony Here) Media Article Here

6:39pm Killer Luke Mitchell Used His Mobile To Telephone His Home Landline Number (Source Page 68 of David High’s Trial Testimony Here)

6:54pm Killer Luke Mitchell Telephoned David High Back To Tell Him He Would Meet Him At The Abbey Instead. The Call Lasted 15 Seconds “David (High)….. set out to walk to Mitchell’s home but he (Luke Mitchell) called them and told them to go to Newbattle Abbey College instead” (Media Article Here) Testimony Of Dc Alan Towers Page 47 Here

7:00pm David High, David Tullock & Another Lad Arrived At Newbattle Abbey College

7:15pm (Approx): Killer Luke Mitchell Met Up With David High, David Tulloch & Another Lad At Newbattle Abbey Hostel They Smoked Some Cannabis & Then Headed To Lord Ancombe’s Woods (Source Page 74 of David High’s Trial Tesrimony Here) David High Stated: “I asked him where Jodi🌻 was because it was unusual for them not to be together” The Killer Stated Jodi Jones🌻“Couldn’t Come Out” (Media Article Here) David High Was Also Asked About Kimberly Thomson. He Told The Jury “I think he might have said something about that” (Media Article Here) The 2008 CoA Judgement Stated At Para 29 “David High had appeared around 25 minutes after the appellant had phoned him” David Tullock Stated: “Luke wasn’t that talkative that evening” He Told The Jury “I feel sick that I spent any time in his company” (Media Article Here)

David High Identified Killer Luke Mitchell’s Missing Brown Wooden Handled Jack Pyke “Folding” Skunting Knife When He Spoke To Police In August 2004. David High Stated “I recognise the wooden handle and the locking mechanism. “I saw Luke with this type of knife on several occasions. “I’m pretty sure I saw Luke with that type of knife before Jodi’s🌻murder, because I never saw Luke with a knife after the murder”(Source Page 49 of David High’s Trial Testimony Here) Media Article Here

7:30pm (Approx): Torrential Downpour Of Rain

8:05pm This Is The Time Killer Luke Mitchell Told The Police David High Left To Go Home. He Also Told Police 8:30pm Was David High’s Curfew Time. However According To David High His Curfew Time Was At 9:30pm (Source Page 76 of David High’s Trial Testimony Here)

Killer Luke Mitchell, David Tullock & Another Lad Left Newbattle Abbey College & Went For A Walk. At Some Point During Their Walk, They Went Past Killer Luke Mitchell’s House On Their Way To The Tarzan Swing Located Near A Burn, Called The River Esk. David Tulloch Stated “That night I got a phone call from David High, who was pals with Luke. We went up to meet him at the college at about 7pm and we just mucked about. We were smoking hash – Luke always brought it. He always seemed to have enough to go round. We went to sit in the bunker just next to the college and smoked cannabis there. Then we went for a walk to a Tarzan swing past Luke’s house and we mucked about on that for a bit. At about 9pm, myself and one of the other lads went home” (Media Article Here)

9:00pm-9:05am Time Killer Luke Mitchell Seemingly Arrived Home After Leaving David Tulloch. Corinne Mitchell Told The Jury “It was quite early, it was about 9ish” & “I said to him I was surprised he was early and I said seen as you are early you can take the dog out” & “Shortly after 9 I think” & “Yes but it was still quite early, it was still not long after 9, so it is still quite early” (Source Pages 2279, 2280, 2283 & 2286 Of Corinne Mitchell’s Testimony Here) The 2008 CoA Judgement Stated At Para 29 “After spending some time at the Abbey, the appellant went home, arriving between 2105 to 2110. He watched a video until he received the text from the deceased’s mother at 2241”

9:35pm Time Killer Luke Mitchell First Claimed (1st July 2003) He Arrived Home After Leaving David Tulloch, Who He Said Had “Chummed” Him Part Way Home (Source Page 40 Of Dc Alan Towers Testimony Here)

9:40pm This Was The Time Corinne Mitchell Told The Jury Her Killer Son Luke Mitchell Had Taken Her Dog Mia Out For A Walk, Which According To Corinne Mitchell Wasn’t Long After He Had Returned Home. Corinne Mitchell Told The Jury “I asked him to take the dog out, he might hear something by then” & “…well take the dog out for a walk and you might have heard something” & “No it was before 10, it must have been about 20 to 10 when he’s taken her out” & “No they took… he got the text message from Jodi while he was out with the dog, because he came back very shortly after he went out” & “They could have got a telephone call I’m not sure” & “I can’t remember if its a phone call or a text he got when he was out, it was one of the two” & “As far as I can recall, I thought he got the text message when he was out and that’s why he came back earlier” (Source Pages 2284, 2285, 2287, 2288 & 2289 Of Corinne Mitchell’s Testimony Here)

9:55pm Shane Mitchell Arrived Home (Source Trial Testimony Page 2163 Here)

9:57pm A Telephone Call Was Apparently Made By Shane Mitchell From The Mitchell’s Landline Telephone To A Number In Bathgate

9:00pm (Approx): Killer Luke Mitchell (Or someone else) Had A Fire In The Mitchell’s Back Garden At Newbattle Abbey Crescent

10:00pm Neighbour George Ramage Saw The Wood Burning Stove In The Mitchell’s Back Garden Alight

10:00pm The Mitchell’s Next Door Neighbour Nicholas Frankland Also Saw The Wood Burning Stove Alight In The Mitchell’s Back Garden. Nicholas Frankland Also Heard Voices But Could Not Be Sure Who’s Voices They Were

10:00pm Killer Luke Mitchell Was Observed Walking Outside His House By Next Door Neighbour Nicholas Frankland (Media Article Here)

10:17pm Judith Jones Attempted To Telephone Killer Luke Mitchell (Source Sandra Lean During Her “Keeping The Record Straight” Video At Around 20:26)

10:20pm Judith Jones Said She Sent Killer Luke Mitchell A Text Message Reading “2 wks grounding toad . . . Say bye 2 luke”🌻 As Jodi’s🌻 Phone Was Broken (Media Article Here)

Killer Luke Mitchell Told Dc Alan Towers During His 1st July 2003 Witness Statement “When I was in my room about twenty past, half past ten……and got a text message from her mum’s phone saying ‘Right Jodi, you’re in big trouble for being late’ (Source Killer Luke Mitchell’s 1st July 2003 Witness Statement Via Dc Alan Towers Testimony Here)

10:30pm (Approx): Judith Jones Woke Joseph Jones To Tell Him Jodi Jones🌻 Had Not Arrived Home

10:35pm Killer Luke Mitchell Told Dc Alan Towers He Deleted His Call History On His Mobile At Around This Time “I’m sure I erased my previous calls because incase I accidentally made an outgoing call from my phone” He Also Told Police On 4th July 2003 That His Brother Shane Gave Him A Torch But Shane Mitchell Made No Mention Of This During His Testimony (Source Page 2149 Here)

10:41pm Killer Luke Mitchell Received Judith Jones’ Text Message Reading “2 wks grounding toad . . . Say bye 2 luke”🌻 (Media Article Here)

10:43:12pm Killer Luke Mitchell Telephoned Judith Jones’ Mobile Telephone & Pretended He Had Not Seen Jodi Jones🌻Judith Jones Stated: “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” (Source Here)

10:44pm Judith Jones Telephoned Her Mother Alice Walker’s Landline From Her Landline & Spoke To Her Daughter Janine Jones (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

10:44pm Janine Jones Woke Her Grandmother Alice Walker Up & Alice Walker Got Out Of Bed

10:45pm Jodi Jones🌻 Was Reported Missing To The Police

10:46pm (Approx): Judith Jones Phoned Round Her Daughter Jodi Jones’🌻Friends. Carol Ford Stated “Jodi’s🌻mum phoned the night she went missing to ask if Jodi🌻was at our house” (Source Here)

10:49pm Judith Jones Telephoned Killer Luke Mitchell’s Mobile From Her Landline & Told Him No One Had Seen Her Daughter Jodi Jones🌻 The Killer Had Told Judith Jones He Had Been On The Path On His Bike (Source here) Judith Jones Said She Had Stated “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”

Killer Luke Mitchell Told Police It Was His Mother Corinne Mitchell Who Told Him To Go Out On His Own & Pretend To Look For Jodi Jones🌻 (Killers 1st July 2003 Written Witness Statement Here)

10:51pm Judith Jones Telephoned Her Mother Alice Walker’s Landline From Her Landline (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

10:57pm Judith Jones Again Telephoned Her Mother Alice Walker’s Landline, Again From Her Landline (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

11:01pm Judith Jones Telephoned Killer Luke Mitchell’s Mobile From Her Landline (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

11:03pm Judith Jones Telephoned Her Mother Alice Walker’s Landline From Her Landline. This Call Lasted 50 Seconds (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

11:04pm Alice Walker, Janine Jones & Steven Kelly Left To Meet Killer Luke Mitchell On The Path To Search For Jodi Jones🌻 (Source Here)

11:04pm Telephone Call Made From Judith Jones’ Landline To Directory Enquiries 192 (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

11:05pm Telephone Call Made From Judith Jones’ Landline To Newbattle Police Station (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

11:17pm Judith Jones Telephoned Killer Luke Mitchell’s Mobile From Her Landline (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

11:18pm Killer Luke Mitchell Was Still In The Woodland

11:20pm Judith Jones Telephoned Her Daughter Janine Jones’ Mobile From Her Landline & Told Her Killer Luke Mitchell Would Be Meeting Janine, Alice Walker & Steven Kelly On The Path (Source Janine Jones’ Trial Testimony Here)

Steven Kelly Stated “We arrived at the junction in the path which either takes you along the back of the High school or down onto the field. We stood there for a couple of seconds as I had suggested I would walk one way and Janine and her gran the other..”

11:22pm (Approx): Steven Kelly, Alice Walker & Janine Jones Caught Sight Of Torch Light. Alice Walker Shouted Out “Is That You Luke” Killer Luke Mitchell Was Still On Roans Dyke Path (Source Here)

11:23-11:24pm Killer Luke Mitchell Reached Alice Walker, Janine Jones & Steven Kelly & Asked Them If They Had Anything With Them Of Jodi Jones🌻 For His Mother Corinne Mitchell’s Dog Mia To Scent

11:30pm (Approx): Killer Luke Mitchell Pretended To Find Jodi Jones🌻 Body, Which He Had Partly Covered In Leaves. He Showed No Emotion “..It was dark, a large tree stump made it hard to walk down the inside of the wall and Jodi’s🌻 body was out of sight behind a large tree” “Mr Beckett told the appeal judges that Mitchell’s story, photographs, what Alice Walker said and what a civilian police photographer said all made it impossible to see Jodi🌻 from the wall. He added: “You could not see the body by standing on the wall and shining a torch up and down. “If Mitchell knew the body was there, in the dark, in my submission it could reasonably be inferred that he is the murderer” (Source Here)

Killer Luke Mitchell Attempted To Dupe The Police By Inventing A Story That His Mothers Dog Mia Had Reacted At The Gino Point (Before The V Break In The Wall On Roans Dyke Path) & That He Had Shone His Torch Into The Woodland On The Other Side

11:30-11:40pm Killer Luke Mitchell Stayed Over On The Other Side Of The Wall Near The V To The Right, While Steven Kelly & Alice Walker Climbed Over & Walked Down The Inside Of The Wall, Searching The Woodland Before Seeing Jodi Jones🌻Body (Source Trial Transcript’s Here)

11:37pm Janine Jones: “I heard my grandmother scream and I started screaming. I assumed that Jodi🌻was there”, “My gran came back over to the path. She was a mess. She said she didn’t know if it was Jodi🌻but she was shocked” (Source Here)

11:39pm Police Control Room Telephoned Killer Luke Mitchell On His Mobile To Find Out Where He Was – He Was Still On The Other Side Of The Wall – The Woodland Side. He Told The Female Operator He Had “Found Something” Janine Jones Stated “The only time Luke showed any emotion was when he was on the phone talking to the police and we were shouting at him. He then started to raise his voice” (Source Here)

11:40pm Killer Luke Mitchell Finally Climbed Back Over The Wall From The Woodland Side To The Roan’s Dyke Path Side

11:42pm Killer Luke Mitchell’s Mobile Telephone Alerted Him To His Voicemail

11:44pm Steven Kelly Telephoned 999 & Told The Operator They Had Found Jodi Jones🌻Body. The Operator Stated “The laddies in a bit of a panic, he’s saying can you come down as fast as possible”

1st July Midnight Female Forensic Police Officer & Other Police Officers Arrived At Scene Of Crime

00:25am Dc Alan Towers Arrived At The Back Of Newbattle High School

00:27am Killer Luke Mitchell Sent An SMS Whilst On The Grass Area Of Newbattle School

00:29am Killer Luke Mitchell Received A Text Message From His Mother Corinne Mitchell Reading “You will tell me right now what is wrong. I’m on my way up to find you” (Source Here)

00:31am Killer Luke Mitchell Telephoned His Mother Corinne Mitchell From A Police Land Rover. The Call Lasted 2 Minutes & 42 Seconds. At Some Point During The Call The Police Walked Up To The Vehicle & Caught The Killer Speaking To His Mother (Media Articles Here & Here)

Dc Alan Towers Stated “Luke explained his mother had a problem with transportation to Newbattle” Police Station

00:39am Killer Luke Mitchell Again Telephoned His Mother Corinne Mitchell – The Call Lasted 50 Seconds During Which Corinne Mitchell Was Told Her Killer Son Was Going To Dalkeith Police Station Instead Of Newbattle Police Station (Source here)

00:40am Following Instructions From ADS Fulton,Dc Alan Towers & His Colleague Asked Killer Luke Mitchell To Get Into Their Unmarked Police Car So That They Could Drive Him To Dalkeith Police Station To Make A Witness Statement

00:43am (Approx): Dc Alan Towers Stopped To Talk To Corinne Mitchell Who Was Making Her Way On Foot To Dalkeith Police Station. She Asked Dc Towers If Her Son Was Under Arrest

1:00am (Approx): Killer Luke Mitchell Gave Police His Clothing & Put On A Paper Suit “At the conclusion of the interview with the accused, which was not under caution and in respect of which evidence had been led without objection, he agreed to the taking of his clothes by the police and the examination of his person and the taking of a blood sample by a police surgeon” (Para 159 CoA judgement)

1:40am Killer Luke Mitchell Gave A 22 Page Written Witness Statement Whilst His Mother Corinne Mitchell Was Sat Next To Him. The Statement Was Taken In A “Comfortable Seating Area” Of Dalkeith Police Station. Corinne Mitchell Also Went On To Make Her 1st Statement Whilst Sitting In This Area

2:10am Doctor Attended Scene Of Crime

Police Photography Officer Alan Murray Arrived At The Crime Scene Recording Lengthy Video Footage & Taking Numerous Photographs

Forensic Tents Were Erected, Which Also Covered The V Break In The Wall On Roan’s Dyke Path & Could Be Seen From Newbattle High School.

3:00am Senior Investigating Officer Craig Dobbie Allocated To The Investigation

4:00am Identification Officer Mark Heron Arrived At The Crime Scene, Making A Detailed Sketched Plan While Everything Was Still Insitu (Source Here)

Killer Luke Mitchell Had Described To Police Jodi Jones🌻 Distinctive Hair Fastening, Which Was Not Readily Visible When Jodi’s🌻 Body Was Found. He Was Also Able To Name The Type Of Tree Near To Jodi’s🌻 Body, Which Would Have Been Difficult In The Dark & His Description Of Jodi Jones🌻 Clothing Implied He Had Seen Jodi🌻That Day Later Than At School. Also His Khaki Green Jacket Mysteriously Disappeared, Along With His Skunting Knife, Which He Had Apparently Received As A Christmas Present

4:05am Steven Kelly, Janine Jones & Alice Walker Made Witness Statements After Leaving Newbattle Police Station

6:00am “At the conclusion of the interview with the accused, which was not under caution and in respect of which evidence had been led without objection, he agreed to the taking of his clothes by the police and the examination of his person and the taking of a blood sample by a police surgeon” (Para 159 CoA judgement)

Killer Luke Mitchell’s Swiss Army Knife Was Seized By The Police

Shane Mitchell Claimed He Received A Telephone Call From His Mother Corinne Mitchell Allegedly Asking Him To Bring Some Clothes To Dalkeith Police Station. At Some During The Early Morning Hours Of 1st July 2003 Shane Mitchell Drove To A Gas Station In Dreghorn (Source Trial Transcripts Here)

7:00am Killer Luke Mitchell & His Mother Corinne Mitchell Left Dalkeith Police Station

8:00am Forensic Officer Derek Scimger Arrived At The Crime Scene

8:00-9:00am – Ds Craig Dobbie became senior investigating officer

Link to Part 175 here