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The Surjit Singh Clair Effect, Fantasist Michelle Diskin Bates, Sister of Killer Barry George, Innocence Fraud Killer Warren Slaney, Serial Killer Steve Wright & Kay Burley #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 22)

Michelle Diskin Bates & killer Barry George
Surjit Singh Clair

Innocence Fraud Promoter & Groomer Michael Naughton, Russ Spring & Psychopathic Killer Warren Slaney

Gary Thompson (32) and John Weston (29) were shot and killed on the 10th of October 1990 in the front garden of the house Gary Thompson lived in with his wife and children in Oadby, Leicestershire.

Gary Thompson
John Weston

Gary Thompson ran a successful hot dog and burger van fast food business and his friend John Weston worked alongside him.

Psychopath Warren Slaney and Terence Burke stole up to £60,000 of bank holidays takings from Gary Thompson’s Bentley motor vehicle after shooting dead Gary Thompson and John Weston.

Innocence fraud killer Warren Slaney’s co-defendant Terence Burke attempted to pretend that victim Gary Thompson “was in on the raid” as part of an insurance scam.

However it was established Gary Thompson was uninsured.

In 2000 killer Warren Slaney made allegations here that staff at Woodhill prison had “attacked” him “at least six times” and in 2011 Private Eye magazine published an article headed The Hot Dog Hit in which it stated;

Slaney’s case has now been taken up by the University of Bristol Innocence Project where law students investigate claims of injustice

Excerpt from a Private Eye magazine article headed The Hot Dog Hit dated 11th September 2011

Another article on psychopathic innocence fraud killer Warren Slaney stated;

The campaign has the support of Dr Michael Naughton of The Innocence Project based at Bristol University who showed that miscarriages of justice were costing the public purse as much as £200m a year in 2002.

Source here

Someone called Russ Spring was also involved in the innocence fraud public relations spin campaign and was referred to in 2005 here as a “campaign support worker for the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation”.

Russ Spring from Mojo said: “We feel that the scale of the inquiry that is needed into his conviction really is beyond the scope of the Criminal Case Review Commission and they need to appoint an independent outside investigators.

BBC news article headed Balloons lift murder appeal bid dated 27th September 2005

Michael Naughton, who was involved in the innocence fraud of killer Simon Hall, founded Bristol university’s innocence project.

Read more on innocence fraud groomer and promoter Michael Naughton by tapping on the button below;

Killer Simon Hall: The Illusory Truth Effect & The Enabling & Empowering Of Highly Manipulative Innocence Fraud Murderers, Psychopathy, Menticide & HMPPS & Monitoring – PART 17

The Surjit Singh Clair Effect

Referring to just after killer Barry George was released from custody in 2008 following his retrial, his uncle Mike Burke stated;

It was now open season on Barry and the press set about destroying any hope of him settling into any kind of normal life in his home city of London.

I watched dispassionately as his reputation, such as it was, nosedived over the last days of 2008 under a welter of tabloid fantasy.

They ran stories on what he ate, what bookshops he visited, his temporary accommodation.

They claimed incorrectly that he was stalking a nurse, that Sky’s Kay Burley was frightened sick by him, that he was interested in Cheryl Cole of X Factor, that he was involved with the partner of a convicted killer etc.

To make things even better a ‘spokesman’ for him allegedly confirmed some of those manufactured stories.

Pat Reynolds said to me one day: ‘with friends like those who needs enemies?’

Excerpts from Mike Burke’s book Mike’s Story: The Battle to Clear Barry George of the Murder of Jill Dando first published in June 2011

The “spokesman” Mike Burke referred to was Surjit Singh Clair.

Read more on Surjit Singh Clair here, here and here.

Michelle Diskin Bates chose to omit to tell the readers of her book the fact that Surjit Singh Clair was a convicted fraudster who attempted “to obtain property by deception by selling the story of the bogus attack to a national newspaper”.

False Phone Monitoring Allegations & Pam Wright

Referring to Surjit Singh Clair and some of the various news stories regarding her psychopathic killer brother, Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

It was arranged that Barry would travel from London to Birmingham, where he would be met by volunteers from MOJO.

They would take him to a secret location and keep him safe.

In two days, he and a volunteer, Russ, would meet me in Leeds.

When Russ returned to his family, Surj would take over, taking Barry along to a meeting he was having at another hotel.

We really hoped that all of these precautions would mean Barry would not appear in any more disgraceful headlines, but no.

They were being followed everywhere, even camping outside of Russ’ home looking for Barry, though they were not there.

Russ’ wife and family felt intimidated by the media’s presence.

The only way they could have known about Russ was if our phones were being monitored.

Of course, this was all before the Leveson Inquiry and the News of the World’s well-earned downfall. Story upon story was published.

There was one story that alleged Barry had terrified a nurse in the hospital carpark, and that he was in an agitated state demanding drugs at the hospital.

The truth was that he was with Russ and they had gone to A&E to replace Barry’s epilepsy meds, as he’d had to abandon his supply at the flat when the police came.

Another story alleged that he was now obsessed with Cheryl Cole as well as Kay Burley, and that he was dating a convict’s wife, the person Surj went to a business meeting with!

Statements by Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

Surjit Singh Clair accompanied Pam Wight, who had been groomed, conned and exploited by serial killer Steve Wight, during her February 2008 Sky news interview with Kay Burley.

It was during this interview where Kay Burley asked Pam Wright;

Do you think if you’d had a better sex life, he wouldn’t have done this?

Kay Burley – February 2008

A December 2008 media article stated of killer Barry George;

He is also reportedly besotted with Pam Wright, the fiancée of Suffolk Strangler Steve Wright.

Excerpt from a Birmingham Sunday Mercury article headed My relationship with Barry George dated 6th December 2008

As referred to in Part 18 of this blog series here, Surjit Singh Clair had stated to David Jones of the DailyMail;

I can tell you there is somebody new, though.

I think there have been three or four meetings

Surjit Singh Clair – Source here

Was the woman Surjit Singh Clair referred to Pam Wright?

During a 2021 channel 5 TV show Pam Wright stated, after realising Steve Wright was a psychopathic serial killer;

He was just a nice, quiet, kind guy

I just, no, no way, I couldn’t believe it.

He wasn’t a violent person

This is my life sentence, I’ll never know the truth… I do honestly think there’s a lot more to the story.

I just didn’t want to wake up, I drank ridiculously and I was on anti-depressants.

Anything just to go to sleep and not think about it

Pam Wright via Entertainment Daily article headed The Suffolk Strangler: Why did Steve Wright kill his victims and where is he now? dated 21st August 2021

Surjit Singh Clair can be seen walking behind Pam Wright in the opening of the February 2008 video with Kay Burley below;

Link to Part 23 HERE

Innocence Fraud Killers Barry George & Sion Jenkins, Portsmouth & The Isle Of Wight Holiday & More On Niamh Horan’s Article For Irish Independent & Fantasist Michelle Diskin Bates #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 21)

Killer Barry George & his mother Margaret Bourke
Innocence fraud killer Sion Jenkins

Michelle Diskin Bates Fantastical Storytelling

Niamh Horan, who’s 1st of October 2023 article for the Irish independent was referred to in Part 16 here and Part 17 here, also made the following statements – in which she quoted Michelle Diskin Bates;

Following his acquittal, the family — including George — visited the Isle of Wight for a holiday.

She says her brother moved to Ireland not to escape media attention, but “to escape the police”.

“A horrible thing happened to a 16-year-old girl in the area where we were staying.

She was attacked,” Diskin Bates recalls.

“Weeks later I had gone back to Ireland and the [British] police wanted to speak with Barry.”

Diskin Bates says after the Isle of Wight attack her brother’s solicitor had asked the police if George was a suspect and they had said no.

But then, “the police went to my mother’s home anyway where they thought Barry was staying.

“She said, ‘If you want to know what happened, speak to my daughter.’

Nobody ever came near me, but I had to almost secrete Barry out of the country of his birth and get him into Ireland where he would be safe.”

Niamh Horgan for the Irish Independent article headed ‘My brother was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder, but he won’t be free until the real killer is caught’ dated 1st October 2023

As already stated in Part 20 of this blog series here, Barry George spent the night of the 8th August 2008 in a hotel in London.

On the 9th August 2008 he then travelled to Southsea, which is near Portsmouth with his sister Michelle and mother Margaret, where they met up with innocence fraud killer Sion Jenkins and his wife Tina.

Barry George, his sister and mother then travelled across to the Isle of Wight for around thirteen days, where they stayed in the Farringford house hotel.

Michelle Diskin Bates stated that it was Barry Loveday from Portsmouth university who had recommended Farringford house to her. Michelle stated in 2018;

Barry Loveday had suggested a hotel to me on the Isle of Wight. It was on the other side of the island, furthest away from the ferry ports, but that was not the only reason for the recommendation. He had felt that we would benefit from a little luxury, and also the peace and privacy this hotel complex could provide. It would be the perfect retreat for our little family to start getting to know each other again.

Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

There is no evidence anywhere that Barry George was a suspect in relation to the alleged attack on a 16 year-old girl.

However what there was evidence of – was someone (or more than one person) feeding the media with numerous stories.

Birds Of A Feather

A 30th August 2008 media article stated;

Barry George and Sion Jenkins, both wrongly convicted of two of Britain’s most notorious murders, have struck up an unlikely close friendship.

He had vowed to return to his flat in Fulham, South West London, after wrongly serving seven years in jail.

Mr Jenkins, 50, was sentenced to life in 1998 for the murder of his 13-year-old foster daughter Billie-Jo, who was battered to death with a metal tent spike in the garden of their home in Hastings, East Sussex.

He was released on appeal in 2004. Two retrials failed when neither jury could agree a verdict and Mr Jenkins was formally acquitted of murder in February, 2006.

His first wife Lois divorced him after his conviction and moved to Tasmania with their four daughters. After Mr Jenkins’s release he married Tina, a nurse and mother of one, who wrote to him while he was in prison. 

She sold her £1million mews home in Belgravia and the couple moved to Southsea. 

A source said that Mr Jenkins first met Ms Diskin at a seminar on miscarriages of justice run by Barry Loveday, a reader in criminal justice administration at the University of Portsmouth.

The source added that Mr Jenkins had told Ms Diskin that her brother could stay with him if he needed a place away from media attention after his release.

A spokesman for Mr George said: ‘I am aware they are good friends and I can confirm they have spent time together since Barry’s release.’

Excerpts from a DailyMail article by Daniel Cochlin article headed The Odd Couple: Freed Barry George finds a place to stay… with his friend Sion Jenkins dated 30th August 2008

Another media article stated;

Mr George, who lives in Hackney, East London, is said to have spent a week on holiday with Mr Jenkins on the Isle of Wight last month.

He also stayed at the home Mr Jenkins shares with his second wife Tina in Southsea, Hampshire, for three days. 

Last night, the Mail was told it was not a permanent arrangement.

Mr George, who has spent seven years in jail, still plans to move back to Fulham, West London, where Miss Dando was murdered. 

Mr George’s spokesman, Surjit Singh Clair, said: ‘The men are friends, I can confirm that. I think the friendship started around six months ago and it was cemented when Barry came out.’ 

After his release, Mr George admitted he could not have shot dead Miss Dando on the doorstep of her Fulham home, as he was stalking another woman at the time. 

Two weeks ago, the convicted sex attacker was stopped and searched by police after making several visits to the BBC Crimewatch presenter’s former home. 

Excerpts from a DailyMail article headed Barry George find himself a friend in Sion Jenkins dated 1st September 2008

How Long Was Surjit Singh Clair Stirring Things Up For?

Surjit Singh Clair’s name came up in further media articles around this time, including one in which it was stated Barry George had visited his “murder scene twice;”

Last night George’s agent confirmed he had visited the murder scene twice since his release.

Surjit Singh Clair said: “Yes, it’s true Barry has been back to Gowan Avenue twice.

“In his mind he wants to clear what he says are the demons from his past.

“His supporters have also urged him to do it, saying it would be a healthy thing to do for him to help him move on with his life.

“Friday was a routine stop and search in Hackney, nothing more.

“Earlier he had been to Fulham to see a friend but wouldn’t tell me any more I’m afraid.”

Barry George: I’ve been back there twice dated 24th August 2008

There was also an article written by David Jones for the DailyMail in which Surjit Singh Clair had again stated Barry George had mentioned visiting his victims “grave a few times”.

David Jones also referred to receiving an “angry email” from Michelle Diskin Bates.

Excerpts from David Jones article read;

During the interview he gave (or rather sold for £80,000) to a down-market tabloid after his release, George insisted he was never fixated with the 37-year-old star, as the prosecution had alleged. 

Yet if George wasn’t obsessed with Jill at the time she was murdered, he certainly is now. 

He spends hour upon hour poring over books and websites about her  –  and, now, with a breathtaking lack of insight into the likely furore, he aims to travel 150miles from London to the West Country. 

‘Barry has mentioned visiting the grave a few times,’ his spokesman Surjit Singh Clair told me this week. 

‘It’s something he definitely wants to do. He just feels there’s a connection between them  –  they’ve been tragically brought together.’ 

George has also discussed his plans with his confidante, his sister, Michelle Diskin. 

‘Barry spent eight years in jail for a murder he didn’t do,’ Mr Singh Clair said.

‘He’s become entwined with her life and she has played a huge part in his. He wants to exorcise Jill’s ghost, and say: “I don’t want you to think I hold any hard feelings against you.” 

Regrettably, it is. George’s spokesman says he might request permission from Jill’s family  –  and if so, he could receive a surprisingly favourable reaction. 

For with remarkable magnanimity, Nigel Dando said that he would not object to the visit. ‘It might give Mr George cause to ponder and reflect,’ he said, when told of George’s plans. 

‘If he looks respectable and takes flowers, and perhaps goes with a friend or relative rather than slinking around on his own, then it wouldn’t look too bad. It’s his personal choice.’ 

Regrettably, it is. George’s spokesman says he might request permission from Jill’s family  –  and if so, he could receive a surprisingly favourable reaction. 

For with remarkable magnanimity, Nigel Dando said that he would not object to the visit. ‘It might give Mr George cause to ponder and reflect,’ he said, when told of George’s plans. 

Mr Singh Clair is a Midlands-based freelance journalist who was enlisted by the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO) to promote George’s cause four years ago, when he was battling to overturn his murder conviction. 

He brokered the £80,000 interview deal after George’s acquittal, and he is now among the trusted inner circle who proffer assistance to George…

Others in ‘Team Barry’ include his sister, who flits between London and her home in Cork, his careworn 72-year-old mother, Margaret, and an old friend named Robert Charig, who can’t work because he suffers a neurological complaint, and so has time to dispense sympathy and homespun advice. 

Fringe members of the coterie include Sion Jenkins, who was cleared of murdering his own 13-year-old foster daughter Billie-Jo in 2006, after serving six years of a life sentence.

This week, Mr Jenkins denied reports that George has stayed at his Hampshire home, but admitted having met him and lent his support. 

Meanwhile, a few weeks later, a 26-year-old woman complained to the police that a man fitting George’s description had pestered her as she served in an upmarket speciality tea and coffee shop in West London. 

The most recent story surfaced only last weekend.

George was reported to have cycled seven miles across London in the rain to the HQ of Sky News, marched in unannounced and insisted on meeting the woman who interviewed him after his release  –  glamorous news anchor Kay Burley. 

George’s people dismiss all these damaging claims as a concoction of lies and half-truths. 

Their man was on a pelican crossing when he was stopped on suspicion of ‘casing’ cars in Hackney, they say. He has complained to the Independent Police Complaints Commission, and two of his support workers, who just happened to be watching, will be his witnesses. 

In an angry email to me this week, Michelle Diskin claimed her brother was the victim of a media-driven plot designed to smear and intimidate him.

Excerpts from a DailyMail article by David Jones headed Obsessed with visiting Jill Dando’s grave and acting more erratically than ever, Barry George is a man on the edge dated 10th October 2008

Link to Part 22 HERE

Who Did Fantasist Michelle Diskin Bates, Sister Of Killer Barry George, Think She Was Kidding With Her “We’re Just An Ordinary Family” Statement On Who Killed Jill Dando? (Part 8)

Michelle Diskin Bates

Bizarre Statement or Freudian Slip

During Part 3 of Who Killed Jill Dando? (at around 7:32) Michelle Diskin Bates stated

I took great heart from the fact that nobody knew that his surname was George

Michelle Diskin Bates

Michelle Diskin Bates was not known by the surname George in 2000.

She was married by this point and went by the name of Michelle Diskin.

Why did she choose to make this statement or was it another of her Freudian slips?

Impression Management

Michelle Diskin Bates then went on to state;

We’re just an ordinary family

These things don’t happen to ordinary people

Michelle Diskin Bates

Scammer Sandra Lean used the word “ordinary” more than once in an attempt at impression management, during her performance in channel 5’s Murder In A Small Town TV show.

Read more on scammer Sandra Lean by tapping on the button below;

Toxic Abuser & Pretend Criminologist Sandra Lean’s 20 Year HOAX PR Campaign & The Innocence Fraud Phenomenon Gravy Train Scam For Psychopathic Teen Killer Luke Mitchell

Reality Appeared Extraordinary

In reality Michelle Diskin Bates had rarely seen her brother since 1973.

Barry George lived in London, England whilst Michelle Diskin Bates lived in Ireland, after moving there in 1973.

A media article from 2001 stated;

Ms Diskin said she hadn’t seen her brother much over the 20 years they were apart

Excerpt by Nicola Tallent article headed MY ‘BOYCHILD’ BROTHER DIDN’T MURDER DANDO; Sister’s support for killer George dated 2001

In August 2002, Michelle claimed here her brother had visited Ireland on holiday when he was 14 years-old.

Then in October 2018, Michelle Diskin Bates had stated that she had allegedly visited her brother in prison after he had raped a woman;

In 1983, he was convicted of an attempted rape and was imprisoned for eighteen months, serving both sentences consecutively.

I visited him in prison during this period, but it was not a comfortable time for Barry.

Excerpts by Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

Barry George had raped a woman but he pleaded guilty to “attempted” rape.

Michelle Diskin Bates also stated she had visited her mother Margaret Bourke in 1988 and had allegedly met up with her brother on this occasion;

Having moved to Ireland, it was rare for me to travel back to London.

Fares were prohibitive, especially if you were travelling with children, so the next time I recall meeting up with Barry was in 1988 when I brought my two children to stay with Mum in London.

Sadly, Barry and I lost touch after this

Excerpts by Michelle Diskin Bates from her book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

Therefore if Michelle Diskin Bates had visited her brother in prison as she claimed, she had only seen him three other times in 27 years and lost touch with him completely by 1988.

Psychiatric Facility

Some months before her brother committed his murder of Jill Dando, Michelle Diskin Bates claimed she had “signed” herself into a psychiatric facility.

This apparently occurred because her life had allegedly become “humdrum, tedious and unfulfilling” as a wife and mother of three children.

Michelle Diskin Bates stated of this time;

Life became humdrum, tedious and unfulfilling.

I was a mental wreck, psychologically impaired.

I’d signed myself into the psychiatric ward a few weeks ago when I felt like my mind was imploding.

The young doctor who’d interviewed me to assess my condition had asked, “Michelle, are you suicidal?”

Struggling up through the pain and fog, I thought for a moment before I answered, “No, but if I go home, I will die!”

Excerpts from Michelle Diskin Bates book Stand Against Injustice published in October 2018

These life events sound extraordinary as opposed to “ordinary”.

Why did Michelle Diskin Bates choose to pretend her family was “ordinary”?

How many “ordinary” families live like Barry George did, with his faeces all over his home – including on his bed?!

Furthermore Michelle Diskin Bates younger sister Susan Towler (nee George) had died in April 1986 during the early stages of pregnancy.

Michelle did not see her sister either!

Read more by tapping on the button below;

Jill Dando & Her Killer Barry George & His Deceptive Enablers Innocence Fraud (Part 1)

Link to Part 9 HERE

Killer Luke Mitchell: The Devils Own, Hypocrite Sandra Lean, Red Flags & Unconscionable Behaviour (Part 23)

Charlatan & fraudster Sandra Lean

March 2007

In March 2007 the Scotsman ran an articled headed Could Mitchell be innocent of Jodi murder?.

This was published just prior to the airing of a TV show called Frontline Scotland: The Devils Own.

The Devils Own also attempted to promote the innocence fraud scam of Jodi Jones killer.

The TV show included fantasist and fraudster Scott Forbes, who went on the show to make false allegations about his innocent “friend” Mark Kane*, who Forbes alleged could have been responsible for killer Luke Mitchell’s murder.

Innocent Mark Kane is referred to in this blog series, including in Part 1 here and Part 2 here.

Why Hasn’t Scott Forbes Published His Witness Statement?

If fantasist and fraudster Scott Forbes had nothing to hide he would have published his witness statements in FULL, along with Mark Kane’s.

Screenshot of statement made by Sandra Lean on the 5th of October 2019 here

Scott Forbes does not need Sandra Lean’s or killer Luke Mitchell’s permission to publish his own statement.

Mark Kane passed away in 2018, and is still being falsely accused by Scott Forbes and others, for Luke Mitchell’s sadistic and murderous crimes.

Months NOT Years

The 2007 Scotsman article included a comment about Sandra Lean in which it stated Sandra had spent “months researching the case”.

“Months” NOT years?

So when exactly did “months” morph into years?

The Scotsman article also included a reference to a “psychology student” called Colin Bowman.

Some excerpts from the article read;

“Corinne thinks people haven’t been able to see the real side of Luke. She tells people that he’s a gentle boy who wouldn’t have hurt a hair on Jodi’s head.”

Certainly author Sandra Lean, with a university background in psychology and sociology and who has spent months researching the case, doesn’t believe Mitchell, now 18, should be behind bars.

In fact, having pored over evidence and quizzed key people, she is prepared to go much further:

“I believe he is innocent,” she declares 

Psychology student and education worker Colin Bowman felt so uncomfortable with the case that he launched an internet forum aimed at thrashing out its details within weeks of the verdict.

The site has had thousands of hits including many from people clearly directly involved in the case with intimate knowledge of Mitchell, Jodi and the investigation.

Excerpts from an article by the Scotsman headed Could Mitchell be innocent of Jodi murder? dated the 26th of March 2007

Stages of Intimate Partner Homicide

A couple of months later, in May 2007 Colin Bowman stated the following on an internet forum here;

There is no proven history of psychological instability or violence. 

Colin Bowman – 15th May 2007
‘Psychology student’ Colin Bowman

When asked whether there were “any comments after months of reflection, folks?”, Colin Bowman stated (here);

Almost certainly innocent

Colin Bowman – 15th May 2007

There WAS, and still is “proven history of psychological instability” which Geraldine Mackie, Luke Mitchell’s English teacher, brought to the attention of a “guidance teacher”, after Luke Mitchell wrote a disturbing essay called “Pain and Suffering”.

There was also another essay, which resulted in Luke Mitchell being referred to a psychiatrist, in which he had stated;

Just because I am more violent than others and cut myself, does that justify some pompous git of a teacher to refer me to a psychiatrist?

Luke Mitchell

Killer Luke Mitchell’s enmeshed mother and enabler Corinne Mitchell, along with Sandra Lean and Scott Forbes choose to ignore, dismiss and minimise and dismiss Luke’s violent nature and have falsely claimed it to be “normal” teenage boys behaviour.

Killer Luke Mitchell’s violent nature and behaviour patterns were, and are far from normal!

Anyone reading this who chooses to ignore, dismiss and minimise Luke Mitchell’s violent nature and behaviour patterns prior to him committing murder, should listen to Jane Monkton Smith’s video here.

Jane Monkton Smith makes it clear that allegations of violence, as opposed to them having been “proven” in a court of law, are a red flag and are one of the eight stages leading up to intimate partner homicide;

According to controlling and manipulative killer Luke Mitchell here, he stated in 2018;

I was always bullied by teachers and considered suicide

Sadistic psychopathic killer Luke Mitchell – 2018

Jodi Jones father died from suicide.

If what killer Luke Mitchell stated in 2018 were true, how did his alleged behaviour around suicide make Jodi Jones feel at the time, and what impact would it have had on Jodi Jones if he was telling her he was “considering suicide”?

Jane Monkton Smith highlighted in her video (here), that “threats to suicide” are another red flag in the stages leading up to intimate partner homicide.

Although killer Luke Mitchell had not been arrested, charged and found guilty for his previous knife attacks and violence on these other girls, there were many allegations of violence and sexual aggression.

These acts of violence and sexual aggression, included an incident involving an 11 year old girl.

Killer Luke Mitchell was said to have been 12 years old at the time of his knife attack on this 11 year old girl.

Gerard Keegan

“Psychology student” Colin Bowman also stated in 2007 (here ) via another “psychology” forum, set up by Gerard (The Wee Man) Keegan;

The Sandra Lean below has been actively concerned with the Luke Mitchell case since before his conviction.

Her book is very concerned about what passes for circumstantial evidence.

In it she deals with the Luke Mitchell case.

Colin Bowman – 2007

Where is the evidence that Sandra Lean was “actively concerned” with killer Luke Mitchell and his case “since before his conviction”?

And if true, why did Sandra Lean choose to mislead the Scotsman, for them to indicate in 2007 she had “spent months researching the case”?

Also, if Sandra Lean was “actively concerned with the case prior to Luke Mitchell being convicted”, why didn’t she attend any of his 42 day trial?

And why did Sandra Lean choose to give the impression she hadn’t met killer Luke Mitchell before his arrest on 14th April 2004?

A few days after Colin Bowman had posted on the Gerard Keegan psychology board, the Scotsman newspaper ran another article headed Claiming killer innocent part of search for truth.

This article gave the impression Sandra Lean had only recently met with 18 year old killer Luke Mitchell for the first time.

Excerpts read;

The heavy doors clanged shut behind Sandra Lean as she made her way inside a notorious young offenders’ institution to meet one of Scotland’s most infamous prisoners.

With piles of legal papers, transcripts, notes and scribbled questions in her arms, she sat down to look into convicted killer Luke Mitchell’s face – and was troubled by what saw. 

“I thought: ‘Oh, he’s just a bairn, he’s just a laddie’,” she recalls. “He looked so much younger, people have forgotten how young. 

Excerpts from an article for the Scotsman headed Claiming killer innocent part of search for truth dated the 19th of May 2007

Why The Need For Trickery?

On what date exactly did Sandra Lean first meet with killer Luke Mitchell face to face, and if she had met with him before he turned 18, why did she choose to give the public the impression via the Scotsman, that the first time she met him was when he was 18 years old?

During a March 2019 podcast with James English, James English asked Sandra Lean (at approximately 47:10 here);

So say the first time months before he got his sentence he got charged

Were you around then, or was it after when he went to prison?

James English – March 2019

Sandra Lean stated;

No I.. I (sic) was involved from September 2003, so ten weeks after the murder

Sandra Lean – March 2019

Yet fantasist and fraudster Scott Forbes claimed it was 2004?

Scott Forbes exact statement was that Sandra Lean “started to ask questions about the case as early as 2004”.

2004 NOT 2003!?

Again, why in 2007 did Sandra Lean choose to attempt to give the impression she had only come face to face with killer Luke Mitchell when he was 18 years old?

And if Sandra Lean did meet the killer before this time, whose idea was it to trick the media, and in turn the public into having them think this was the first time Sandra Lean had met with him?

And if Sandra Lean was involved in September 2003, as she claimed to James English, why in her 2008 book No Smoke (Read more here) did she choose to give the impression she had only believed “anything was broken” from 2006?

As is evidenced by the following excerpts by Sandra Lean;

Until two years ago, I had no idea that anything was broken.

I believed in the justice system, although I knew it had its faults.

A chance meeting with someone who believed that a family member was a victim of a miscarriage of justice was to change all that.

Excerpts from page xiii here of Sandra Lean’s book No Smoke published in 2008

And if this alleged “chance meeting with someone who believed that a family member was a miscarriage of justice” was Corinne Mitchell, Sandra Lean wouldn’t have met Corinne until after her son had been convicted for his murder, because “a miscarriage of justice” wouldn’t have occurred until after January 2005 – following the juries verdict.

Link to Part 24 here

Killer Luke Mitchell: The Grift & Lies of Warped Minded Abuser, Gaslighter, Con Artist & Hypocrite Scott C Forbes (Part 2)

Scott Forbes

According to Scott C Forbes;

No one trashes your name, more than someone who is afraid you will tell the truth

Scott C Forbes

Scott C Forbes has chosen to “trash” Mark Kane’s name, and many other peoples names, not because these people are “afraid” as he claims, but because Scott C Forbes thinks he is entitled to do this.

Scott C Forbes also thinks he is entitled to say or write whatever he wants about the family members of Jodi Jones.

All of whom were ruled out as suspects!

Scott C Forbes’s “trashes” the name of anyone he chooses to target or who disagrees with the trash he chooses to talk and write about.

There will be more on Scott C Forbes statement “No one trashes your name, more than someone who is afraid you will tell the truth” in further parts of this blog series.

However to reiterate from Part 1 here, Scott C Forbes has chosen to not publish a copy of his witness statement, which he made about Mark Kane – which is a massive red flag!

There are numerous red flags regarding Scott C Forbes behaviour, far too many to count.

Scott C Forbes showed no real interest in Jodi Jones’ sadistic and psychopathic killer’s innocence fraud until around 2006.

If Scott C Forbes was really concerned about his “friend” Mark Kane’s behaviour, why did he leave it so many years before he finally tracked down and spoke to Jodi Jones’ killer’s mother Corinne Mitchell?

And why did Scott C Forbes choose to speak with Jodi Jones killers mother?

If Scott C Forbes was so sure Mark Kane was responsible, why didn’t he speak to the police?

Why did Scott C Forbes wait so many years before speaking out?

And why did Scott C Forbes only jump on Jodi Jones’ killer, and his enablers, fraudulent public relations innocence fraud spin campaign in/around 2006?

More importantly, why did Scott C Forbes contact the former RUC officer on the “confidential hotline number” here when he did (as referred to in Part 1 here) and why wasn’t Scott seemingly speaking to Sandra Lean?

Was the reason Scott C Forbes chose to speak to the former RUC officer anything to do with Sandra Lean’s involvement with un-convicted baby killer and sexual deviant Billy Middleton?

Again, where is the hard evidence that Scott C Forbes has ever been a practicing lawyer in Scotland? Has anyone bothered to ask him to provide documentation to back up his numerous assertions?

Instead of publishing his own statement, what Scott C Forbes has chosen to do is manufacture stories, seemingly from his warped imagination (or the warped imagination of others) and has attempted to attribute these manufactured stories to people like Mark Kane – who passed away in May 2018.

Mark Kane obviously cannot defend himself against Scott C Forbes false allegations, manufactured stories and preposterous nonsense.

Is the reason he hasn’t published his statement, because Scott C Forbes knows the content will cast yet further doubt on his false, malicious and manufactured allegations.

Personality V’s Character

Character verses personality

Many of the people who have chosen to listen to, or read, Scott C Forbes false and malicious claims and manufactured stories, know very little about Scott’s history and previous actions in murderer Luke Mitchell’s fraudulent public relations spin campaign.

Scott C Forbes stated;

Reading statements from staff at Newbattle Abbey College I couldn’t believe just how pathetic the police were. 

One statement from an English teacher, Ms. McGillivray, who was asked if she had a copy of an essay about a man killing a ‘woman in the woods’ written by Mark Kane, denied having one and this somehow confirmed Kane wrote no such essay.

John Beckett, QC argued to the appeal court that a lecturer who receives thousands of essays in her career and who couldn’t remember receiving one essay, “confirmed Kane wrote no such essay”. This wasn’t even challenged by the defence.

Total Lack of Reasoning

It is not surprising Scott C Forbes appears unable to recognise his own lack of reasoning.

However it is unlikely a female English teacher, or any female, who could have read and received “thousands of essays in her career” would forget about one of her students writing an essay about “a man killing a woman in the woods”.

It is also not surprising why someone like Scott C Forbes does not appear able to recognise or understand why an essay by a student about “a man killing a woman in the woods” would stand out to most females reading it.

The below photograph is a screenshot from a 2003 promotional video here for Newbattle Abbey collage, and the person playing snooker is the late Mark Kane.

Mark Kane here

According to another tweet made by Scott C Forbes, he claimed Mark Kane was “on methadone, valluim, speed, hash and alcohol on day Jodie was murdered” (sic);

Does the footage of Mark Kane from the Newbattle Abbey college promotional video here look like he was clean from drugs, like his mother Norma stated in 2021;

OK, he was a drug addict years ago but he was turning his life around.

He got off the drugs completely and was accepted into college.

Statement by Norma, Mark Kane’s mother, taken from an article by Sarah Vesty for the Daily Record headed Mum’s fury at Jodi Jones documentary makers after wrongly suspected son’s ‘name blackened’ dated the 22nd of June 2021

In reality, it sounds like Mark Kane may have got drunk on that particular night and might of fallen over and got a “tiny” scratch on his face from falling.

Mark Kane stated in 2014 here;

All of this I reported to the police. Just to set a couple of things straight I never had big cuts on my face the day after the murder I had a tiny scratch is all, he did not drive me to the police station the day after

Mark Kane – 1st of August 2014

If Scott C Forbes has nothing to hide, he would have no problems publishing his witness statement in full, with no redactions, so the public can see for themselves what he told police.

On 2nd of March 2021 Scott Forbes tweeted the following;

Screenshot of statement made by Scott Forbes on Twitter on the 2nd of March 2021

The same Newbattle Abbey collage promotional video here also includes footage of Scott C Forbes.

Still of Scott Forbes taken from the Newbattle Abbey college promotional video

Behaviour Patterns of A Sexually Deviant & Dangerous Adolescent Killer

Murderer Luke Mitchell didn’t have any real hobbies around the time he chose to commit his murder, instead he appears to have been fixated on having sex with numerous girls and threatening and harming them with knives.

Some people reading this may view this as normal behaviour for a 14 year old boy, and some people reading this may think it’s normal for a 12 year old boy to threaten an 11 year old girl with a knife for a kiss.

It isn’t and it’s disturbing!

These patterns of behaviour in a young boy are not normal, and alarm bells should be ringing loudly, especially to all the parents with young children of their own, who have chosen to blindly support murderer Luke Mitchell’s fraudulent public relations campaign.

None of the people who are blindly being taken in by Scott C Forbes stories, have the knowledge of all of the intimate details and behaviour patterns of murderer Luke Mitchell.

A few photos of the killer as a young child with a pony, does not paint the picture of the murderer he was turning into.

He had a fixation with knives and a sexually deviant streak.

He had been showing signs of sexual aggression since at least the age of 12.

You won’t hear about these behaviour patterns from people like Scott C Forbes, because he chooses to play down these behaviours patterns, and pretends they didn’t happen.

Excerpts from a 2005 media article, which has been reproduced in full here read;

The girl, who was just 11 at the time, was visiting Mitchell’s father Philip, a family friend.
Mitchell, who was only 12, was also staying in the house in Livingston and the two youngsters were sharing a twin bedroom.
In the middle of the night, he climbed on top of her, held a knife to her throat and demanded she kiss him. Last night she said: ‘I just can’t tell you how I feel about the verdict.’ 

Excerpts from a Daily Mail article by Grace McLean dated the 22nd of January 2005

The above wasn’t an isolated incident.

Showing signs of sexual aggression at the age of 12, and holding a knife to an 11 year old girls throat to coerce her into submission for a kiss, is a violent act.

Other young girls made similar allegations, which demonstrated a pattern of behaviour that was developing over time.

The sadistic, adolescent murderer was seeing several girls at the same time, and playing them off against each other.

A Killers ‘Well Being’ & His ‘Token of Remembrance’

The below photograph shows a memento murderer Luke Mitchell chose to inscribe and keep.

Photograph of Jodi Jones killers ‘memento’

Excerpts from a blog headed A killer and their trophies reads;

Many types of criminals will keep “trophies” or “Souvenirs” as a memento of their crime.

In most cases these same items will be used against them later as evidence and direct links to their involvement of the crimes.

But why do criminals do this? It seems like a strange thing to do especially in cases where the person has made extra efforts in other areas not to get caught, such as clearing evidence from the crime scene that may link them to it, or disposing of other evidence such as the weapon used or clothing worn during the crime itself.

Well the answer to this has many reasons behind it, and the types of trophies kept will vary from criminal to criminal.

Humans as a species are known to collect items we put value onto. This value can vary from sentimental or sexual value to monetary value.

Many adults will collect things that remind them of their childhood for example or will have a passion or hobby for something that requires them to accumulate a collection over time such as a coin or card collection.

A person may have no real use for such items to get them through daily life, however having these items will give them a sense of well-being.

This is a permanent reminder of the events leading up to that persons death, its a personal connection to them for the Killer and in many ways is symbolic of the perceived relationship they have with their victims.

Their successful crimes are achievements, in the eyes of a criminal they are worth remembering and what better way to remember than to keep a piece of it for yourself that you can look back on and relive the moment.

The items are valuable to the criminal in some way, as discussed above it could be to relive the moment, it could be for pride to display, it could be for gratification or even comfort.

Photograph of Jodi Jones killers ‘memento’

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