According to a 1st December 2023 blog by Nick Wallis here he stated;
We know from the witnesses during Bates v Post Office and the Inquiry evidence we’ve heard over most of 2023 that the Post Office is stuffed to the gills with lifers, plodders and gormless apparatchiks inexplicably promoted into positions way beyond their ability.
Nick Wallis – 1st December 2023
Referring to lawyer Jarnail Singh, Nick Wallis claimed;
….Singh revealed himself to be an exceptionally dangerous man, inhabiting a fantasy world manufactured by a priceless combination of the Peter Principle and the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Nick Wallis – 1st December 2023
Then referring to Jarnail Singh’s evidence during the charade which is the post office Horizon IT inquiry, Nick Wallis went on to state;
Many of Singh’s answers were like this – forthright denial of something, followed by obfuscatory guff and then an oblique admission or, more usually, a change of subject.
Nick Wallis – 1st December 2023
For “forthright denial of something”, “obfuscatory guff”, “oblique admissions” and “more usually a change of subject” have a read of perjurer, thief and fraudster Seema Misra’s evidence during her 2010 trial.
Tap on the button below to read trial transcripts – from page 27;
People join cult movements for various reasons, most of which revolve around a desire for meaning and community.
Many who become part of such organizations have troubled backgrounds and difficulty fitting into society.
They might also feel mainstream culture has no place for them and nothing of spiritual value to offer either.
Former cult members often describe the long-lasting sense of loneliness and nihilism they felt prior to becoming part of something bigger than themselves.
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 “droveabout” 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;
Scammer Sandra Lean and her former boyfriend, un-convicted baby killer Billy Middleton were involved in killer Sean Toal’s public relations innocence fraud spin campaign:
In reality – killers Sean Toal and Luke Mitchell had been cohorts since at least 2010.
Sandra Lean has remained (publicly) silent since her bare faced lies, disinformation and misinformation are being exposed by trial transcripts but she recently commented on murderer Sean Toal on Facebook;
Nicola Brennan, who was referred to in Part 296here commented on Sandra’s post;
Whilst over on X Heather Brunt, who was referred to in Part 288here also tweeted on killer Sean Toal – commenting on how fraudster Scott Forbes “worked on his case”;
Tap on the button below to read more about fraudster Scott Forbes;
Killer Sean Toal also refers to himself as Social Sessions on various social media platforms, as well as @seanaldo1985 on X.
Social Sessions tweeted Neil MacKay on the 4th December 2023;
Neil MacKay was involved in the fraudulent 2021 channel 5 TV show Murder In A Small Town. Neil MacKay was referred to in Parts 261 and 265 of this ongoing blog series, both of which can be read by tapping on the buttons below;
On the 7th December 2023 killer Sean Toal asked John Halley to message him.
John Halley was arrested in March 2023 for sex offences (Read more here) and had also been promoting scammer Sandra Lean’s nonsense on social media, although he too has recently gone quiet on this.
Again – since trial transcripts have been published, Sandra Lean has remained silent
Tap on the button below for links to trial transcripts;
Liar and scammer Sandra Lean stated on the 23rd July 2023 on actual, factual guilty murderer Luke Mitchell;
..a 35 year oldman
Who has never driven a car
Let me see I’ve got a list of what he’s never done
He’s never driven a car
Had a legal drink
Had a job
Shopped for his own needs
“Shopped For His Own Needs”
Chris Taylor and Harry Williamson’s 17thJune2023 article for the Scottish Sun here headed;
evidenced killer Luke Mitchell shopping “for his own needs” and contained many quotes of statements made by the killer including the following;
I visited a few shops — bought some toiletries, bought some games, bought some food
Sadistic killer Luke Mitchell
Had An Illegal Drink
Killer Luke Mitchell may not have had a “legal drink” but he most definitely drunk illegally before he was sent to prison.
There are photographs online of killer Luke Mitchell’s bedroom with bottles of alcohol clearly visible on the top shelf of his pine unit, as can be seen in the copy of the photograph below next to Beavis and Butt-Head;
Sandra Lean also stated;
Isn’t it amazing how quickly we forget
Sandra Lean – 23rd July 2023
A Few Days After Killer Luke Mitchell’s 2003 Police Interview
Sandra Lean might want to remind herself of Grace McLean’s 22nd January 2005 Daily Mail article headed “I’msimplynotanormalteenager: EXCLUSIVE: Luke Mitchell’s chilling boast to the Mail“.
Journalist Grace McLean first met with killer Luke Mitchell and his mother Corinne Mitchell a few days after his section 14 interview which took place on the 14th of August 2003.
Grace McLean stated;
Iinterviewed Mitchell months before he had been charged with the murder of Jodi, and days after he had been questioned by detectives hunting for her killer
Grace McLean
Grace McLean also met with killer Luke Mitchell “four weeks” before he was arrested in April 2004.
It appears killer Luke Mitchell orchestrated their meeting.
What is clear is that around this time the killer and his mother were courting the media, as is also evidenced by the Sky TV interview on the day of Jodi Jones funeral with James Matthews.
A copy of Grace McLean’s article has been reproduced below;
THE words coming out of his mouth were enough to chill the heart.
His voice flat and emotionless, Luke Mitchell was describing to me the moment he discovered the body of his girlfriend, mutilated and abandoned on the muddy earth.
For the schoolgirl who died an unspeakable death, horrifically mutilated, there was no expression of love from Luke Mitchell – and no tears.
This was Luke’s story in his own words – the account the jury never heard as the teenager never gave evidence during his trial.
“My torch lit up the path like daytime and I was about 12 yards from Jodi when I saw her lying there” he began.
“She was so white. Her throat had been slit and her head was to the side.
“Her eyes were staring up at me and she was naked but for a pair of socks, I think… no, she wasn’t wearing anything. Her body was so white and she was just staring and staring.
‘”I shouted to the others but I couldn’t tell them I’d found Jodi because I didn’t want to upset her gran, but she said she wanted to come over the wall.
‘The others held her back but she scrambled over the wall and said if her granddaugher was there she wanted to be with her.
“She sat down beside Jodi and cradled her in her arms.
I guess the family are suspicious of me because my dog Mia was the one who found Jodi and I was the one who first saw her lying there”
I interviewed Mitchell months before he had been charged with the murder of Jodi, and days after he had been questioned by detectives hunting for her killer.
Aged 15 at the time, the Luke Mitchell in front of me was an adult in everything but name.
Chain smoking and dressed in baggy jeans and a dark-coloured T-shirt, he exuded confidence bordering on arrogance.
Yet all the time his eyes flicked towards his mother Corinne, as if seeking reassurance from the woman with whom he obviously had an extra-special bond.
Mitchell and his mother were like a well-rehearsed double act.
As Corinne Mitchell ranted about the unfair treatment of her son, Mitchell would pace the floor as he vented his anger at the way the police had dealt with him.
Then his mother would touch him lightly on the arm and he would, as if by magic, calm down.
And as he gave his version of his whereabouts the night Jodi was brutally murdered, he constantly looked to her for reassurance, particularly when recalling the time he left the house to meet his girlfriend and the time he went on to meet his friends.
In the first moments of meeting Mitchell I was struck by how confident he was.
After a day at school he knew he was about to meet a journalist, but he walked into the room with a nonchalant air.
As I shook his hand, he gave me a cursory glance before sitting in a chair diagonally across from his mother.
It was clear he was a very sexually aware young man. I immediately felt uncomfortable as his eyes slowly looked me up and down. Mitchell may be a child but his sexuality, arrogance and misplaced maturity make him appear far older than his tender years.
There were a few flashes of childlike behaviour. But they only came as he was distracted by Mia – the dog he claimed picked up Jodi’s scent and led him to her body.
As his story unfolded, it was clear he was a master of manipulation. His story was just too word-perfect. It was also, as has now transpired, a tissue of lies.
This was a 15-year-old who never buckled once during interviews with some of Scotland’s most experienced policemen. The more police pushed him, the more arrogant he became.
He boasted to me: ‘After a few hours I told them, “charge me or let me go”.’
Mitchell leaned forward in his chair and stared intently at me as he told me how police had made his life ‘a misery’ and how they tried to relate to him through stories of rap star Eminem, shock rocker Marilyn Manson and pop singer Holly Valance.
He said: ‘The cops asked me about my relationship with Jodi’s friend Laura.
They kept asking me about the Eminem song Kim, the song where he fantasises about killing his wife.
“They asked me about the follow- up song in which Eminem sings about the “two of us”, meaning him and his daughter. They asked me about Laura and if I wanted it to be just the two of us and asked if that was why I killed Jodi”
“It was all rubbish. Jodi and I would still be together if she was here today”
Detectives were astonished by how arrogant Mitchell was during interviews. Even when confronted with evidence he remained defiant.
He seemed to realise police were trying to relate to him as a teenager and find some kind of common ground.
However, as Mitchell saw himself as an adult, he found the tactic amusing and gained a sense of confidence as the interrogation went on.
Mitchell took to pacing the floor again as he told me how he had ‘got really mad’ with police.
Clenching his fists he said: ‘I started to get really mad after about four hours and asked them to charge me if they had anything to charge me with.’ It was clear Mitchell enjoyed playing cat and mouse with detectives. He said: ‘ One copper stood, looked me straight in my face and said, “We’ve got you. We found your semen on her bra.
We’ve found sperm similar to yours.” I laughed and said, “If it’s similar, it’s not the same then, is it?” ‘ He told how detectives showed him a video reconstruction of how it would have been impossible for him to see Jodi’s body in the dark woods with only a torch – implying he must have known exactly where she was lying.
He said: ‘Jodi’s body was replaced with a tailor’s dummy and I pointed out to police that I could see a limb. That’ s when they switched the video off.’
But then, chillingly, he revealed that he, Jodi and their friend Laura had been talking about funeral arrangements a few nights before the murder.
He said: ‘What happened to Jodi was so ironic because the Thursday before she died we were all talking about what records we would want played at our funeral.’ I could picture him that night, talking in the bedroom with Jodi – taking a perverse pleasure in knowing the fate that awaited her.
He said police took a lock knife from him after being tipped off by friends.
But he added:
‘The bloke who said this is a fantasist. Another of his friends told police Jodi and I were arguing all the time. But that’s not true. We never had a cross word”
Mitchell also denied he was taunting police when he left a note with flowers for Jodi which quoted from Kurt Cobain’s journals:
“The finest day I ever had was when tomorrow never came”
He said: “The only reason I left it was because she loved that line. I wanted to be with Jodi and nobody else”
It was the first time in our interview that Mitchell spoke of any affection for Jodi.
But then, to change the subject, he spent ten minutes talking about newly learned computer skills – just like any other teenage boy – before asking his mother for the keys to her 4×4 Land Rover.
Then, nonchalantly, he walked outside, started up the engine and drove at high speeds around nearby waste ground.
It seemed, yet again, that Mitchell was playing at being an adult.
When he returned, he told his mother he was going to see his friend Laura and, since it was on my way, I offered to give Mitchell a lift.
In the car, he said very little about Jodi, continuing to talk about his computer course. When the car came to a standstill, he leaned over and gave me a hug before jumping out.
Just four weeks later, he was arrested for Jodi’s murder.
I truly believe Mitchell thought he could get away with it.
As we parted, he couldn’t resist having the final word.
A last gesture, and his last chance to goad the police:
“I was never going to break down in public – I’m not that kind of bloke”
“They made a mistake and thought I was just a normal teenager”
By Grace McLean for the Daily Mail article headed I’msimplynotanormalteenagerEXCLUSIVE: Luke Mitchell’s chilling boast to the Mail dated 22nd January 2005
Driving His Mother Corinne Mitchell’s 4×4 Land Rover & Had A Job
Not only had killer Luke Mitchell driven before he was sent to prison he also “had a job”.
He worked for his mother Corinne Mitchell and grandmother Ruby Guetta at Scott’s caravans in Mayfield.
Scammer Sandra Lean has previously acknowledge this fact, including in 2015 here, where she stated about the killer;
In Part 253 of this ongoing blog series (which can be read by tapping on the button below) it was evidenced how scammer Scott Forbes had confirmed via his Twitter social media account that killer Luke Mitchell had NOT stayed at his father Philip Mitchell’s house “forweeks” before he committed his murder;
On the 7th March 2021 Sandra Lean again referred to killer Luke Mitchell’s trousers with Jodi Jones🌻 DNA found on them.
The police found the trousers hidden in a hold-all in killer Luke Mitchell’s home on the 4th July 2003.
Scammer Sandra Lean stated ;
They were still in the hold-all from the previous week-end
Statement by Sandra Lean made on 7th March 2021 (from around 8:58 of her video)
In October 2018 Sandra Lean stated;
The DNA to which this expert referred was, in fact, on another pair of trousers taken from Luke’s home – there was no way of telling how long the DNA trace from Jodi had been there
Sandra Lean – from p.196 of her second Innocence fraud book
killer Luke Mitchell had not stayed at his father Philip Mitchell’s house “for weeks”.
There was no evidence produced to show killer Luke Mitchell had stayed at his father Philip Mitchell’s house “the previous week–end”.
As is evidenced in the above screenshot, someone called Nicki Mac chose to post a comment under InnocenceFraud’s Facebook post (and attached link) stating “Let’s talk about Joan Albert”.
It turns out that Nicki Mac is the girlfriend of pretend lawyer and warped minded, fantasist Scott Forbes.
On 6th of July 2022 Nicki Mac (McIntyre) announced on the cult-like Facebook group supporting sadistic killer Luke Mitchell, that Scott Forbes was her bf = boyfriend.
Nicki Mac’s Boyfriend & His Projections
On 4th of September 2022, during a YouTube rant with con-artist Sandra Lean, Scott Forbes stated;
I’ve got a stalker Stephanie Hall, I’ll come back to.. and erm.. genuine stalker.. genuinely like to family and friends and erm..
I’ll take her to court..
I welcome anyone to take me to court, please, Jane Hamilton, the Daily Record, anyone, please we”ll go to court and take the stand and take an oath and and I’ll question them, they’re all fucked, they’re in for trouble
Scott Forbes – 4th September 2022 here (Reproduced for evidential purposes)
Scott Forbes (Right)
On 4th October 2022 a video was published to YouTube by someone called PremeditatedPatter in which (At around 1:56:15 of the video) Scott Forbes refers to his imaginary “stalker(s)” and made the following statements;
And I’ve got a couple of stalkers, genuine stalkers. I’ve got one called Stephanie Hall right, just a quick one. She married a man called Simon Hall years ago. Simon Hall was a convicted rapist murderer, he killed an old age pensioner and then she married him. And then allegedly he killed himself, allegedly he confessed to this murder so she feels scorned. She, she got taken in by a murderer, married him and now everybody that claims to be a miscarriage of justice erm are all liars (sic)
Scott Forbes – October 2022 (Reproduced for evidential purposes)
Note how pretend lawyer Scott Forbes used the word “allegedly” before he stated the words “he killed himself” and “confessed to thismurder”.
The word allegedly is “used to convey that something is claimed to be the case or have taken place, although there is no proof”.
Actually, factually guilty killer Simon Hall did admit to his murder and did kill himself.
Therefore there is nothing “allegedly” about these two events.
Both events occurred and there is proof that both events occurred.
In fact on the day he killed himself charlatan and con-artist Sandra Lean took it upon herself to announce killer Simon Hall’s death on a couple of Internet forums;
For some people there is no attempt at changing horses mid stream.
Once you are caught in a web of deceit it is almost impossible to escape.
Allowing oneself first and foremost to become entangled out of sheer foolishness will not change.
It didn’t appear Nicki Mac had bothered to click on the link to read and absorb the content of the blog, because she continued to make a slew of Facebook posts, tagging in InnocenceFraud with deluded statements about “stalking” and being “obsessed with Scott”, and even made one bizarre statement of ‘..away and obsess over your murdering rapist husband’.
Joan Albert was a woman who was brutally murdered on 16th of December 2001 by a man called Simon Hall.
Read more on Joan Albert, and how her close friends and neighbours Mr and Mrs Twoose found her lying “at the bottom of the stairs” of her home early on Sunday morning of 16th of December 2001, by tapping on the below link to Part 1 of The Truth Behind Killer Simon Hall & His Enablers #InnocenceFraud Phenomenon Scam ongoing blog series;
Warped minded abuser and deluded fantasist Nicki Mac’s, equally deluded boyfriend Scott Forbes also stated during his “chat” with Sandra Lean;
And she claims he made a confession so he’s made a fool of her by telling her he’s really an innocent man and then years later he tells her he done what he did now
I don’t know what happened I’ve not examined the case to pass it
Scott Forbes – 4th September 2022 (Reproduced for evidential purposes)
Some more of Scott Forbes lies, smears and delusions were published in Part 49 of this blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below;
Sandra Lean Wrote About Killer Simon Hall & His Murder Through Out Her First Innocence Fraud Book No Smoke
As stated previously, “professional” con-artist Sandra Lean wrote about actually, factually guilty killer Simon Hall through out her first discredited book – which is still for sale.
Chapter 5 of said book can be read by tapping on the button below;
Mr Twoose, who found Joan Albert, spoke to a reporter in June 2002 and stated the following;
She was lying at the bottom of the stairs. I never for one second imagined foul play. Even when I saw the knife next to her body I thought she must have got up in the night to feed her dog Rusty using the knife to cut up his food and then had a heart attack
My eyesight isn’t very good so when I saw a patch of red in the lower part of her stomach I thought it was a pattern on her night dress
I believe it must have soaked into the carpet. The position of the body was very strange
Her head was against the wall and both her arms were raised above her head in two “C” shapes
At that time I still thought it must have been an accident. She was on warfarin and I thought the fall could have caused the blood
I pulled the kitchen blind up to get some light. That was when I saw some broken glass by the kitchen window. There were no other signs of a break in
By the time con-artist Sandra Lean wrote and published her 1st innocence fraud book in 2007 the “broken glass by the kitchenwindow” (which was on a window sill below the window, as well as a sink and large worktop), had miraculously moved by itself the following year, when killer Simon Hall’s adoptive mother Lynne Hall had been taken to Joan Albert’s home by Suffolk police to check to see if anything had been stolen.
Cover of Sandra Lean’s discredited book ’No Smoke’ published in 2008 by fraudster Stephen T Manning/Checkpoint press
Sandra Lean stated in her book;
Lynne Hall, Simon’s mother, was taken to the victims house by two officers on January 8th to check whether anything was missing. (Mrs Hall was a friend of Mrs Albert’s, and often helped the older lady out).
Neither Mrs Hall nor the police officers were wearing protective clothing (although full forensic examination of the house had not been carried out), but things were touched, and broken glass trodden in.
Therefore, the house and its content are likely to have been contaminated by Mrs Hall, and the officers.
Excerpt by Sandra Lean from her first discredited book No Smoke (foot of page 70 – top of page 71)
Forensic examination of Joan Albert’s property had already been completed by the time Lynne Hall was taken to the property, and there was no glass on the floor to be “trodden in”.
At the end of her chapter 5 Sandra Lean went on to state;
Given the purely circumstantial nature of the Simon Hall case, it would seem pertinent to introduce other circumstantial events that may require further examination. At 12.30pm, Sunday 25th November 2005 (exactly 3 weeks prior to the discovery of Mrs Albert’s body) Mabel Leyshon (90) was found dead in her home in Lon Pant, Llanfairpwll, on Anglesey. She had been stabbed repeatedly, following a break-in. The similarities are striking, both were elderly women living alone, both were subjected to brutal and frenzied knife attacks, both had their houses broken into, and both were killed on a Saturday night and discovered on a Sunday. Both were also security conscious, Bothere confirmed alive and well on the Saturday.
Excerpt by Sandra Lean from her first discredited book No Smoke (foot of page 80 top of page 81)
Psychopathic killer Mathew Hardman was arrested and convicted of his murder of Mabel Leyshon in 2002 – 5-6 years BEFORE Sandra Lean published her book!
“Mrs Beasty Brain” & “Sicko” Nicki Mac
All of Nicki Mac’s gaslighting Facebook posts made to Innocence Fraud demonstrated Nicki Mac was/is an abusive, warped minded, deluded fantasist, similar to how her boyfriend Scott Forbes continues to show himself to be.
Nicki Mac wasn’t at all interested in talking about Joan Albert, as when Innocence Fraud replied with the following Facebook post;
deluded Nicki Mac replied stating “Ive at no stage mentioned the case”;
Nicki Mac also made it quite clear she couldn’t care less about Joan Albert – she couldn’t even be bothered to get her age correct, even after Nicki Mac herself had posted a media link which clearly displayed Joan Albert’s correct age;
Interested To Hear What Nicki Mac Has To Say About Charlatan & Con-Artist Sandra Lean & What “Attracted” Nicki Mac To Psycho Killer Luke Mitchell
Nicki Mac then appeared to delete her Facebook posts and/or blocked Innocence Fraud.
Below is what Sandra Lean wrote about actual, factual, guilty murderer Simon Hall in 2011;
‘skeleton statements’
Conviction Upheld ‘This decision is an affront to justice. The CPS knows that there was another burglary that evening in Capel. They know that the SOCOs went directly from that crime scene to the murder scene. They know that there was DNA on the knife that did not belong to Simon, that the original fibre investigation concluded no match for the fibres, and that the jury was misled into believing that the knife that was used to kill Mrs Albert must have come from an opened drawer in her own kitchen. They also know that another man confessed to this murder. So why do they insist on keeping an innocent man in prison, and refusing to acknowledge the existence of this other evidence? What can possibly be gained by allowing the real perpetrators to remain free and unpunished? We will not rest until the whole truth of this case has been made public, and that includes the collusion and cover-up which has allowed this gross miscarriage of justice to persist for so long, and which, sadly, in light of today’s decision, will be allowed to continue. We will never give up the fight for justice for Simon. The truth will come out – all of it. The DPP himself said that without the fibre evidence, there was no case. The fibre evidence has now been discredited – why is Simon to remain in prison for another man’s crime? Sandra Lean, who featured Simon’s case in her book “No Smoke” said this morning, This is a dark day for British Justice. This decision tells us that the justice system in this country would rather allow murderers to walk among us, and innocent men to languish in prison for crimes they did not commit, than simply admit, “We got it wrong.” Any other industry behaving in this way would be closed down – the justice industry is answerable to no-one. The fight for Simon Hall’s freedom goes on.
Sandra Lean – 1st January 2011
Read more by tapping on the button below to Part 13 of this blog series;
INNOCENCE FRAUD WATCH 