Killer Luke Mitchell: John Smythe Scraping The Pits Of The Barrel (Part 305)

*Guest Blog*

OK, so the narrative used to be –

That the trio all agreed with Luke then changed their minds.

That they were honest in their first statements, changing this within 4 weeks.

That everyone corroborated what Luke had been saying.

No one can argue with those claims, it has been one of the main draws to gain support.

The claim that his dog found the body, that they corroborated this then changed it.

The inference being that they were honest then lied.

We can add the rest, of omitting this from statements, of the Jury not getting to hear the truth from their first statements etc.

This really is a belter –

The NEW narrative is now that the trio always lied.

Yip, what a turnaround eh?

So, the people who have been feeding those lies, that false narrative, have been caught out for lying.

Who have always said the trio told the truth in their first accounts.

Bleating out those experts, first statements, most accurate, best recall!!

It is hilarious, as I pointed out to the alias that is John Smythe.

His futile attempt, scraping at the pits of the barrel, that they always knew the trio were lying through their teeth.

You really couldn’t make this shit up, but they do, and keep on doing it.

So, there is absolute proof that the likes of Sandra Lean and co have been lying through their teeth.

Absolute proof of that acceptance of honesty from the trio, to now say they were lying in their first accounts.

Link to Part 306 here

Killer Luke Mitchell: More On Remorseless Murderer Sean Patrick Toal & How Easily He Lies For Another Guilty Murderer & Robber & Violent Con Scott C Forbes (Part 304)

During a video which aired on the 12th November 2023 killer Sean Toal and Scott Forbes spoke about sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell.

Killer Sean Toal was referred to in Part 301 of this blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below;

Read more about Scott Forbes in Part 275 below;

During the video killer Sean Toal and Scott Forbes told many outrageous lies.

The following is some dialogue between the pair of innocence fraudsters;

So the police are now driving people about

They’ve been over the wall of a crime scene

Come on anybody with any..

Scott Forbes

Is this the local police then

Sean Toal

Aye started off with the local police and then Dobbie and that arrived

He was a detective superintendent for Edinburgh

Scott Forbes

But this time the place have already let..

Sean Toal

Aye they’ve allowed people to go home covered in Jodi’s blood

Scott Forbes

And what was Dobbie’s answer to that

Sean Toal

Ah he just says ach we’ve carri.. our investigation was the finest police work that we’ve ever carried out

Scott Forbes

So there’s people there that have been involved in finding the body

They’re covered in blood

They don’t get questioned

They get drove about Dalkeith and then they pick on Luke

Sean Toal

Detective chief superintendent Craig Dobbie was not appointed as senior investigating officer until gone 03:00hrs, by which time all the family members had left the scene.

And no one was “covered in blood” like killer Sean Toal stated!

This is another intentional bare faced lie!

Alice Walker was the only person to have gone near her grand-daughter Jodi Jones’ body and Alice had said she might have touched her grand-daughters forehead.

The intentional bare faced lie about Alice Walker “cradling” her grand-daughter body was started by sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell!

Janine Jones, Steven Kelly and Alice Walker were driven directly to Newbattle police station, they were not “drove about” Dalkeith like killer Sean Toal stated and they didn’t go home until after they had been at the police station – where they were asked questions.

Pages 806 and 807 of Janine Jones’ trial testimony describes some of what happened in the early hours of the morning of 1st July 2003;

Tap on the button below to read more, directly from trial transcripts;

Link to Part 305 here

Killer Luke Mitchell: Remorseless Murderer Sean Patrick Toal Aka Social Sessions Aka @seanaldo1985, Scammer Sandra Lean’s Silence On The Trial Transcripts, The WAP Website & Organised Crime (Part 301)

Murderer Sean Toal
Scammer Sandra Lean

Paul Gerard McGilveray (20) was murdered on 8 August 2004 by Sean Patrick Toal.

On 26 July 2005 at Glasgow high court, Sean Toal was found guilty for his murder. Read more by tapping on the button below;

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:

Excerpts from a July 2023 media article stated of killer Sean Toal;

The thug fought to overturn his sentence and forced his victim’s mum to go to court 36 times.

Now Toal has completed a law degree and is preparing to launch his own crime podcast.

He has also thrown his weight behind Luke Mitchell, who was convicted of killing girlfriend Jodi Jones, 14, in Dalkeith, Midlothian in 2003.

Excerpts by Alice Walker for the Scottish Sun article headed Brazen murderer stabbed our son to death – now he’s launching a crime podcast about ‘justice’, he has no remorse dated 3rd July 2023

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 296 here commented on Sandra’s post;

Whilst over on X Heather Brunt, who was referred to in Part 288 here 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;

Link to Part 302 here

Killer Luke Mitchell: Innocence Fraud Scammers Sandra Lean & Un-Convicted Baby Murderer Billy Middleton From Defunct WAP Website On Guilty Murderer Sean Toal (Part 258)

Un-Convicted Baby Murderer Billy Middleton
Sandra Lean

The Following Was Copied From The Now Defunct WAP Website

It Has Been Reproduced For Research & Evidential Purposes Only

Admin = Un-convicted Baby Killer Billy Middleton

Link to Part 259 here

Killer Luke Mitchell: Scammers Sandra Lean & Un-Convicted Baby Murderer Billy Middleton & Their Innocence Fraud Narrative From 2010/2011 Via The WAP Website On Actual, Factual Guilty Murderer Luke Mitchell (Part 257)

Un-Convicted Baby Murderer Billy Middleton
Sandra Lean

Most Of The Following Was First Published On The 14th April 2010 Via The Now Defunct WAP Website

It Has Been Reproduced For Research & Evidential Purposes Only

Link to Part 258 here

Killer Luke Mitchell: Warped Minded, Deluded Abuser Nicki Mac (McIntyre) & Her Deluded, Fantasy Lawyer & “Sweetie Wife” Boyfriend Scott C Forbes (Part 143)

Nicki Mac

The Sheer Foolishness Of Nicki Mac

Around a week or so ago, in response to a comment made on a Scottish newspapers Facebook page, Innocence Fraud posted a link to this website, which included a link headed Once You Are Caught In A Web Of Deceit It Is Almost Impossible To Escape;

As is evidenced in the above screenshot, someone called Nicki Mac chose to post a comment under Innocence Fraud’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 Premeditated Patter 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 this murder”.

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;

Allegedly” should have been used by pretend lawyer Scott Forbes before he made his defamatory, false statements about Stephanie (Hall).

“Let’s Talk About Joan Albert”

The link to the blog headed Once You Are Caught In A Web Of Deceit It Is Almost Impossible To Escape included some of the following statements;

Common sense and intellect are not evident

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 Innocence Fraud 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

Excerpts from an Evening Star article headed Friend relives finding murdered OAP dated 14th June 2002

By the time con-artist Sandra Lean wrote and published her 1st innocence fraud book in 2007 the “broken glass by the kitchen window” (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;

Link to Part 144 here