Killer Luke Mitchell: Robber & Violent Con Scott C Forbes & His “Resentful” Stalking Behaviour & Subtle Threats (Part 319)

Scott C Forbes (Screenshot courtesy of “Murder in a small town” TV show

Scott C Forbes was referred to in Part 275 of this ongoing blog series, which can be read by tapping on the button below;

On Friday 16th February 2024 Ana Justice tweeted the following;

Ana Justice has been obtaining copies of trial transcripts, in relation to sadistic murderer Luke Mitchell from the Scottish courts, and subsequently publishing them online.

Tap on the button below for links to trial transcripts;

Scott C Forbes has also been making false allegations, accusing Ana Justice of “doctoring official court documents”;

Motivations For Stalking

According to Stalkers And Their Victims (here) research by Paul E. Mullen, Michele Pathé and Rosemary Purcell say that the “resentful” stalkers stalking “is designed to inflict fear and distress”.

According to the public prosecution services for Northern Ireland website here, they state;

There are many reasons why a person may stalk another and there is no such thing as a ‘typical’ stalking perpetrator. 

The ‘Stalking Risk Profile’ – developed by Mullan et al of Melbourne University – assists investigators and prosecutors in understanding stalking behaviour and risk. This profile divides stalkers into five types and considers the context in which the stalking arises and the stalker’s motivation for contacting the victim:

The Rejected Stalker – Rejected stalking arises in the context of the breakdown of a close relationship. Victims are usually former sexual intimates; however, family members, close friends, or others with a very close relationship to the stalker can also become targets of Rejected stalking

The Resentful stalker – Resentful stalking arises when the stalker feels as though they have been mistreated or that they are the victim of some form of injustice or humiliation. Victims are strangers or acquaintances who are seen to have mistreated the stalker.

The Intimacy Seeking stalker – Intimacy seeking stalking arises out of a context of loneliness and a lack of a close confidante. Victims are usually strangers or acquaintances who become the target of the stalker’s desire for a relationship. Frequently Intimacy Seeking stalkers’ behaviour involves delusional beliefs about the victim, such as the belief that they are already in a relationship, even though none exists.

The Incompetent Suitor – The Incompetent suitor stalks in the context of loneliness or lust and targets strangers or acquaintances. Unlike the Intimacy Seeker, however, their initial motivation is not to establish a loving relationship, but to get a date or a short term sexual relationship. Incompetent Suitors usually stalk for brief periods, but when they do persist, their behaviour is usually maintained by the fact that they are blind or indifferent to the distress of the victim.

The Predatory Stalker – Predatory stalking arises in the context of deviant sexual practices and interests. Perpetrators are usually male and victims are usually female strangers in whom the stalker develops a sexual interest. The stalking behaviour is usually initiated as a way of obtaining sexual gratification (e.g., voyeurism targeting a single victim over time), but can also be used as a way of obtaining information about the victim as a precursor to a sexual assault, the most dangerous leading to serious attack.

Excerpts from the Northern Ireland Public Prosecution Services website here

Link to Part 320 here

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 Simon Hall: More On Innocence Fraud Killers & Their Deceptive Enablers, Including Stephanie Bon, Michael Naughton, Andrew Green, Kevin McMahon, Billy Middleton, Sandra Lean, Barbara Stone & United Against Injustice – Part 17e©️  



Joan Albert’s Killer.
Photograph of Simon Hall taken whilst at large and wanted by Suffolk police for a sexually motivated murder

Andrew Green

A few days prior to Stephanie Bon’s correspondence with Michael Naughton, which was referred to in Part 17a (Tap on button below to read more), Stephanie Bon emailed Andrew Green at the INNOCENT organisation, CC’ing in Michael Naughton.

Andrew Green

United Against Injustice

Andrew Green who says he is a “criminologist” co-founded the Manchester based INNOCENT organisation in 1993 and went on to also co-found United Against Injustice (UAI) with Ann Craven, the mother of Adrian Craven who was convicted for rape.

Andrew Green claimed Adrian Craven was “fully exonerated” for his rape but Innocence Fraud Watch has found no evidence to support this claim.

Kevin McMahon

Kevin McMahon

Kevin McMahon who was convicted of perverting the course of justice for pressurising a witness in the trial of Basil Williams-Rigby who was convicted for “sexual offences”, was also said to be a co-founder of United Against Injustice.

Kevin McMahon was also the founder of Merseyside Against Injustice.

NOTE: Adrian Craven and Basil Williams-Rigbys convictions were deemed “unsafe” by the court of appeal.

Neither men proved their actual, factual innocence.

It states here that Kevin McMahon “is a film producer and former member of the Royal Military Police and Special Branch”.

And it states here that Kevin McMahon “has been an active campaigner for over 25 years, his advice has been sought in many individual and high profile miscarriages of justice cases”.

A video published to vimeo which is said to have been produced by Kevin McMahon, titled ‘In Search Of The Truth’, can be viewed here.

Screenshot of end credits to Kevin McMahon’s ‘film

Un-Convicted Baby Killer Billy Middleton

The vimeo video here includes brief footage of un-convicted baby killer Billy (William) Middleton who set up the now defunct Wrongly Accused Person (WAP) website.

The Wrongly Accused Person website went on to become the Wrongly Accused Person (WAP) organisation, after Billy Middleton and Sandra Lean registered it as a charity.

Sandra Lean

Sandra Lean became a partner alongside Billy Middleton for the WAP organisation.

Billy Middleton was another abusive enabler and gaslighter of actual, factual guilty killer Simon Hall’s fraudulent public relations spin campaign.

Screenshot of one of unconvicted child killer Billy Middleton’s social media posts

Prior to Sandra Lean’s partnership with Billy Middleton, Sandra had been the Scottish representative for the INNOCENT organisation.

Peter Hill

Peter Hill removed his original event post from the world wide web but some of the following could once be found using this link http://www.raybrook.co.uk/event.htm;

Parliament House is just off the High Street, beside St Giles Cathedral – it’s not down beside the new Parliament Building at Holyrood. I’m rubbish at directions, and I’m sure someone will come up with better than this, but the easiest way I know is, from the railway station, go up the North Bridge to the junction where High Street/Royal Mile meet North Bridge, turn right up High Street, and it’s on your left, five or 6 openings up. 

It would be great to see lots of contributors to the forum there, but please remember to contact one of the organisers and get your name on the guest list to avoid security problems. 

John Scott: johndscott@talk21.com

Iain McKie: iainmckie1@talktalk.net

Peter Hill: peter.hill@raybrook.co.uk

The preliminary work in organizing this initiative has been done by: 
John Scott
John is the leading civil rights solicitor in Scotland. He is the Chairman of the Scottish Human Rights Centre. 
Iain McKie 
Iain is a retired police officer. His interest in law reform springs largely from the problems that his daughter Shirley encountered when she was a police officer, which led to an official inquiry. More details of this can be found at www.shirleymckie.com 
Sandra Lean
Sandra is a writer on miscarriages of justice. She is the Scottish representative of INNOCENT. Her book No Smoke contains research on a dozen cases of miscarriage of justice in particular the controversial case of Luke Mitchell. 
Peter Hill 
Peter, now retired, was the producer of the BBC TVs programme Rough Justice. In Scotland he has worked on the case of George Beattie for 25 years, taking it to two appeals. 

Source

Sandra Lean was another abusive enabler and gaslighter of killer Simon Hall’s fraudulent public relations spin campaign.

Perverting The Course Of Justice

Kevin McMahon perverted the course of justice a few months after the launch of his campaigning group.

A June 2004 article by Cheshire live headed Ex-policeman ‘claimed to be private detective’ reported on Kevin McMahon’s behaviour and subsequent arrest in January 2002.

Excerpts read;

Mr Vardon has alleged that on December 11 2002, McMahon visited the witness unannounced and attempted to convince him to make a retraction statement.

The witness contacted the police and officers arranged for the man to be wearing a recording device for the next meeting with McMahon.

Mr Vardon has claimed McMahon returned to his house on December 12 and suggested he was working for Williams-Rigby’s solicitor, Christopher Saltrese.

The court heard that McMahon told the witness, who is a heroin addict and convicted thief, it was in his financial interest to drop the charges.

Mr Vardon said McMahon suggested to him that he should say he had wrongly identified his abuser.

The court heard that McMahon was arrested on January 28 last year.

Excerpts from a 17th of June 2002 article by Cheshire Live headed Ex-policeman ‘claimed to be private detective’

Merseyside Against Injustice was launched in October 2001 and a sister of sadistic serial killer and psychopath Michael Stone, also known as Michael John Goodban, spoke at the launch.

Barbara Stone

Barbara Stone promoted her brother’s innocence fraud public relations spin campaign.

Barbara Stone also set up the now defunct group Kent Against Injustice.

Neil Wilby stated in his June 2020 blog headed Dr Truthseeker loses her moral compass that Andrew Green “was driven out in 2016” from the United Against Injustice organisation.

Note: Neil Wilby also stated in his blog Dr Truthseeker loses her moral compass in relation to a secondary victim of killer Simon Hall’s, namely Stephanie (Hall), that she is “a regular miscarriage of justice commentator”. Stephanie (Hall) is a “regular commentator” on the innocence fraud phenomenon and the killers, rapists, fraudsters and con artists and their deceptive enablers, who choose to perpetuate it.

Link to Part 17f here

Scammer Michelle Diskin Bates Claimed Her Killer Brother Barry George, A Prolific Sexual Predator, Was Like A “9 Year Old Boy” Living In A Mans Body & Psychopathic Serial Killer Michael Stone #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 20)

killer Barry George in 2000
Michelle Diskin Bates & brother Barry George

Lost Touch In 1988

As already highlighted in Part 1 of this blog series here, morally duplicitous Michelle Diskin Bates has told numerous differing stories over the years.

In 2018 she stated that her and her brother Barry George had “lost touch” by 1988, as is evidenced by her following statements;

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

However by the following year, a 2019 premier christianity magazine article written by Megan Cornell here, had reduced these twelve years down to “almost ten years”.

Excerpts read;

“I heard the name Barry Bulsara and I knew that Barry used that as an email address…I thought: how many of them can there be?”

She called her mum, who was in England, and her worst fears were confirmed: her brother, whom she hadn’t seen for almost ten years, was the main suspect in Britain’s most high-profile murder case.

Excerpts by Megan Cornell for premier christianity magazine article headed ‘My brother was wrongly convicted of murdering Jill Dando’ dated 19th March 2019

Referring to when she allegedly visited her brother in prison in 1983, following his rape of a 20 year-old student (Read more here) Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

 I’m afraid he was given quite a tough time from me; he didn’t enjoy that visit one bit

But I think it needs to be understood that Barry is like a nine-year-old boy living in an adult’s body.

These things should not happen, and he knows right from wrong, but at the same time, he has a whole host of disabilities

Michelle Diskin Bates via a 2019 premier christianity magazine article

£80,000 Newspaper Deal Brokered By Surjit Singh Clair

Referring to when Barry George left custody on the 1st August 2008, following his retrial, Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

He left prison with absolutely nothing as a result: no compensation, no home to return to…. and with no belongings.

The entire contents of his flat had been disposed of without consultation with Barry or his family

Michelle Diskin Bates

In reality Surjit Singh Clair, who was referred to in Part 16 here and Part 18 here had brokered an apparent £80,000 newspaper deal for Barry George.

This money was paid to Barry George fairly quickly by all accounts.

Megan Cornell also stated;

The Miscarriage of Justice support services (part of Citizens Advice) helped Barry to find emergency accommodation and purchase the essentials, but as media scrutiny and intrusion continued, in the end, Michelle supported a move to Ireland.

Excerpts by Megan Cornell

Barry George stayed in a hotel on the night of 8th August 2008 – which was the day he was released from custody.

He then travelled with his sister Michelle and mother Margaret Bourke to Southsea in Portsmouth, where they met up for a meal with innocence fraud killer Sion Jenkins and his wife Tina.

Farringford house, Freshwater, Isle of Wight

From Portsmouth they headed over to the Isle of Wight, where they stayed in the Farringford house hotel.

After “thirteen days” on the Isle of Wight, Michelle and Barry dropped their mother Margaret off in London then the pair of them travelled to Ireland.

Ireland, Irish Passport & The £310 A Week Flat In Hackney

Referring to when they arrived in Ireland after their trip to the Isle of Wight, Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

Barry was entitled to an Irish passport because Mum was Irish by birth, so we applied, receiving it quickly, much to Barry’s dismay.

He was certain that his name alone would ensure he was turned down.

Then he was worried the media would highlight that he had an Irish passport and the police would take it away.

Barry so wanted to start his free life, but he felt he’d never be allowed to.

He was afraid that if he returned to Britain, the police would pick him up on trumped-up charges and he would disappear without a trace.

On one such trip back to London, he was meeting up with his friend and QC Ian Glen at a central London coffee shop, when he was stopped and searched for no reason.

Ian witnessed the officers stopping Barry, although he wasn’t doing anything, and wasn’t behaving in a worrying or threatening way.

They left when Barry pointed Ian out to them.

Why, then, was he being harassed in the street?

We believe it was the conviction for the murder of Jill Dando.

Barry had been put under a Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangement order, or a MAPPA order, whilst still in prison.

Barry took a case against this decision but lost, having to pay the costs himself.

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

What Exactly Did The MOJ Support Services Do?

An 18th August 2008 article for the Irish Times by Olivier Kelleher here stated “Michelle Diskin (51) flew into Cork Airport at lunchtime yesterday..”.

However Barry George didn’t have a passport so he and his sister travelled to Ireland by bus.

Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

Our journey to Cork took twenty-four hours from Leeds through to Ballincollig.

It was a nerve-wracking marathon expedition.

It’s just an hour’s plane trip away, but I couldn’t take Barry by plane because he had no passport.

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

A 2010 article by Mark Hughes stated that Barry George lived in a £310 a week flat in Hackney but his article is not clear when exactly this was or for how long.

Excerpts read;

Upon his release he lived in a flat in Hackney which cost him £310 a week in rent.

He paid for it not, as was suggested, by claiming benefits, but by using the proceeds he was paid to do a tabloid interview on the day of his release (the one which described him as “bug-eyed” and an “oddball”).

Excerpts from an article by Mark Hughes for the Independent article headed Barry George: ‘I am not angry, certainly not at society. But I would use the word disgusted‘ dated 31st May 2010

If Barry George stayed in a hotel on the night he was released from custody in August 2008 and then travelled to Portsmouth and onto the Isle of Wight for thirteen days, then travelled to Ireland to obtain an Irish passport.

What exactly did the miscarriage of justice support services help Barry George with?

What “emergency accommodation” was required if Barry George had rented a flat?

Mass Murderers & Child Killers Michael Stone & Jeremy Bamber

Megan Cornell’s 2019 premier christianity article went on to state;

As for Michelle, she now attends All Party Parliamentary Groups in parliament to advise on miscarriages of justice and share her story, but she’s humble about her role:

“I have never felt that I have enough knowledge to look at somebody’s case and say: ‘Oh, clear miscarriage of justice’

Excerpts by Megan Cornell for premier christianity magazine article dated 19th March 2019

As already stated in Part 2 of this blog series here, Michelle Diskin Bates is a ‘patron’ to mass murderer, child killer and rapist Jeremy Bamber’s spin campaign.

On the 6th of February 2022, using one of her numerous social media accounts, “humble” Michelle Diskin Bates made the following statement in support of psychopathic killer Michael Stone;

Serial killer Levi Bellfield has recently admitted he apparently received a £5,000 payment for admitting to Michael Stone’s murders. Read more here

Read more on psychopathic serial killer Michael Stone and his and his enablers innocence fraud by tapping on the button below;

Link to Part 21 HERE

Michelle Diskin Bates, Sister Of Barry George, Attempts To Rebrand Her Brothers Sexual Predatory & Serial Stalking Behaviour & Claims His Victims Were “Posing” #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 17)

Michelle Diskin Bates
Killer, rapist, serial stalker & con artist Barry George
Niamh Horan

In Niamh Horan’s 1st October 2023 article for the Irish Independent headed ‘My brother Barry George was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder, but he won’t be free until the real killer is caught’ she stated;

When police searched his flat they found rolls of camera film which contained 2,248 photographs of 419 young women

Niamh Horan

Niamh Horan does not provide any sources for the numbers she has quoted in her article, however other media outlets have stated that the rolls of film contained 2,597 photographs.

Michelle Diskin Bates is even quoted, on the 27th August 2002, by Rebecca Hardy here as stating it was 2,597 photographs.

The ages of each of the 419 victims has never been made known.

Pornography

Referring to Michelle Diskin Bates, Niamh Horan stated;

Although people may see the hordes of photographs as suspicious, she stresses they were undeveloped.

“He was not poring over them night after night.

They were not pornographic,” she says.

Michelle Diskin Bates stated to Niamh Horan that she was “dismayed at what the film-makers left out”.

David Dobbins, who met Barry George after he came out of prison in 1985 for his rape of a woman, said that;

George showed the youngsters porn pictures and took them to venues frequented by Japanese tourists, like Hammersmith’s Cunard Hotel.

Here, he would make clumsy attempts to chat up women.

Most asked him to leave, or called police.

Excerpts by Justine Smith for the Mirror article headed Killer Chameleon; Barry George; Paul Gadd; Steve Majors; Thomas Palmer; Barry Bulsara dated 3rd July 2001

What volume of pornographic material was seized from Barry George’s Crookham Road flat?

Sister Attempts To Rebrand Her Brothers Predatory Behaviour

Referring to the thousands of photographs taken by her sex offender brother Barry George, Michelle Diskin Bates attempted to suggest her brothers prolific stalking, sexual harassment and intimidation of women was his way “to make conversation;”

Rather than stalking the women, the photographs were “a way to make conversations with people, for a man with communication difficulties”

Niamh Horan for the Irish Independent article headed ‘My brother was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder’ dated 1st October 2023

Michelle Diskin Bates even suggested that Barry George’s unsuspecting victims had been “posing;”

Seeing the photographs, Diskin Bates says she thought:

“Oh, Barry, that woman didn’t want her photograph taken. I could tell. But the others were posing”

Excerpts from Niamh Horan’s 1st October 2023 article for the Irish Independent

Again – as already highlighted in Part 8 of this ongoing blog series (Read more here), Michelle Diskin Bates allegedly saw her brother 3 times in 27 years;

On one occasion when he attended her first wedding in Ireland, on another occasion when she allegedly visited him in prison in the early eighties and on a final occasion when she made a “rare” visit to see her mother Margaret in London.

The following TIMELINE details some of Barry George’s crimes;

Link to Part 18 HERE

Niamh Horan On Fantasist & Innocence Fraudster Michelle Diskin Bates & Her Killer Brother – Prolific Sexual Predator & Offender, Serial Stalker & Con Artist Barry George #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 15)

Niamh Horan
Killer Barry George alongside his oldest biological sister Michelle Diskin Bates

Lack Of Due Diligence, MAPPA Restrictions & Unsubstantiated Claims

Writer Niamh Horan has today (1st October 2023) had an article published for the Irish Independent headed ‘My brother Barry George was cleared of Jill Dando’s murder, but he won’t be free until the real killer is caught’

The byline reads;

The sister of the man acquitted of killing TV presenter Jill Dando speaks of his fear over Netflix documentary and of his life in Co Cork

Niamh Horan stated that Jill Dando’s killer Barry George;

…was released in 2008 after being unanimously acquitted at a retrial

Niamh Horan

One factor Niamh Horan failed to highlight to her readers was that Barry George was released from custody in 2008 under MAPPA (multi-agency public protection arrangements) restrictions due to his dangerousness – especially towards women.

Niamh Horan stated of Barry George;

Today George lives in a quiet village in Co Cork.

He spends his days visiting shops, chatting to locals who have become familiar with him. And — until last week — he went about his business without much attention.

With the Netflix documentary, it seems that is about to change.

Niamh Horan

Michelle Diskin Bates is then quoted as stating;

It was always a risk.

We had to ask ourselves is the gain going to be bigger than anything we might lose?

Michelle Diskin Bates

Niamh Horan then stated;

Since the series began streaming, George,….. has been phoning his sister several times a day in panic

However Ms Horan does not substantiate her claim with any proof and Michelle Diskin Bates statement of “He contacted me straight away that day” suggests Michelle only received the one phone call from her brother.

Where is the evidence from Niamh Horan that “George, has been phoning his sister several times a day in panic”?

Michelle Diskin Bates is then quoted as stating;

He is looking over his shoulder because somebody took photographs of him in his village as he went to the doctor’s

Michelle Diskin Bates

The Netflix docu series did not begin streaming until the 26th of September 2023.

Two weeks before this – on the 12th of September – Michelle Diskin Bates made the following post on one of her numerous social media accounts;

Source here

On the 1st October 2023 Michelle Diskin Bates published the following statement on X, formally known as twitter;

Niamh Horan also wrongly stated in her article;

British barrister Michael Mansfield KC, once described as “the king of human rights work”, represented George at his retrial.

Niamh Horan

William Clegg represented Barry George at his retrial, not Michael Mansfield!

Niamh Horan went on to state of Michelle Diskin Bates;

Diskin Bates was living in Co Cork when a news report flashed on the radio.

It said a man had been arrested for Dando’s murder.

Her relief turned to horror when her brother was named.

Niamh Horan

As already stated in Part 8 of this blog series, which can be read here, some months before her brother committed his murder of Jill Dando, Michelle Diskin Bates had “signed” herself into a psychiatric facility.

This apparently occurred because her life had become “humdrum, tedious and unfulfilling”.

Michelle Diskin Bates stated;

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

Michelle Diskin Bates moved to Ireland, from England in 1973.

Michelle has publicly claimed she only saw her brother 3 times in those 27 years, going on to claim she lost touch with Barry George completely by 1988.

Link to Part 16 HERE

Questions For Innocence Fraud “M25 Three” Killer Raphael Rowe About Michelle Diskin Bates Following The Netflix Docu Series Who Killed Jill Dando? (Part 14)

Raphael Rowe

Did Michelle Diskin Bates Really “Reach Out” To Killer Raphael Rowe Like He Claimed?

During Part 3 of the Who Killed Jill Dando? docu series, innocence fraud killer Raphael Rowe stated (at around 38:23);

A few years after Barry George was convicted his sister reached out to me

She was asking if I could help highlight the fact that her brother was wrongly in prison

I was at BBC Panorama at the time

But when I was 20 years old I was wrongly convicted of murder and a series of robberies

I spent the next 12 years in maximum security prisons

And Michelle was convincing, you know she sounded like my sister did when my sister was saying ‘help my brother’

Statements by Raphael Rowe via Part 3 of Who Killed Jill Dando?

Scammer Michelle Diskin Bates has made no mention over the years of having reached out to Raphael Rowe.

Why Did Raphael Rowe Omit To Mention Scott Lomax & Uncle Mike Burke?

However Michelle’s and killer Barry George’s uncle Mike Burke (also spelt Bourke) told a different story to the one told by Raphael Rowe.

Mike Burke made the following statements in a book, which detailed his involvement with “Justice4Barry” and Raphael Rowe;

2004
On September 5th I read an e-mail from Scott Lomax telling me about a BBC reporter, Raphael Rowe, who hoped to make a programme about Barry.

I made some discreet enquiries and I was told that ‘He is a good guy, genuine’.

I was happy with that recommendation and decided to contact him.

I phoned him the next day and we had a good long chat.

He was quite up to speed having looked at the websites and appeal court links.

I agreed to contact Barry and his solicitor to see if they might cooperate with a TV programme.

I later spoke to Pat Reynolds who was very enthusiastic when I mentioned Panorama, saying that Panorama could be seen as a turning point, the beginning of the end.

I next visited Barry on Friday October 8th.

I was suffering from a heavy cold, and family tensions were again running high, otherwise the visit went ok.

I got fish and chips and had quiet a miserable evening. ‘Why the hell am I doing this?’ I wondered, not for the first time.

The next day I went to a National Miscarriage of Justice meeting at Conway Hall in Red Lion Square.

When I arrived there were a number of people waiting outside.

I was a little early and waited some distance from them.

A good looking young woman approached me and struck up a conversation.

She quickly guessed that I was connected to Barry, which made me suspect that she was a reporter.

She told me that her husband was in prison for murder but that he was innocent.

To make it better she said that he allegedly had eaten the body of the victim.

I didn’t quite know what to make of her.

I met Hazel from MOJO and we chatted awhile.

The Hall opened and we went in.

I got a cup of tea and then I met Raphael Rowe.

Scott Lomax texted me to say that he had arrived.

He brought along copies of his book on Barry.

It was interesting to meet Scott and Raphael and I hoped meeting Raphael would help to maintain his interest in the case.

2005
I drove to London on Monday the 31st.

I had hoped to visit Barry on Tuesday and Margaret had promised that she would book it in good time.

But she waited until Monday before phoning to book the visit.

She then discovered that there were no visits allowed on Tuesdays.

I was going to a public meeting in the House of Commons on Wednesday and so I had to wait until Thursday to visit him which lost me another precious day’s holiday.

It was a short visit as his solicitor was also due to visit.

Barry was somewhat stressed out as a result.

He was concerned again that some of us would speak to the press.

He got agitated when I told him that Raphael Rowe was interested in the Cutting Edge video, which I had in fact already loaned to Raphael along with a video of the trial reconstruction.

He threatened to sue anybody who might use the Cutting Edge video.

I e-mailed Raphael Rowe asking about news on a documentary.

He replied that Barry and his solicitor had made demands that Raphael could not comply with.

Supporting Barry was often a struggle against the odds, as he seemed to see problems with everything we did or tried to do for him.

I felt that a good opportunity was in danger of being lost and I decided to keep in touch with Raphael in the hope of some development.

July 8th 2006

I recently had to have the hard drive replaced on my computer which cost me 205 Euro.

David James Smith is due to visit Barry early this month if all goes well.

Raphael Rowe is in America researching for a BBC documentary on Barry. He is consulting experts with regard to the single particle.

He phoned me up last week seeking Michelle’s details which he had mislaid.

On July 20 Andy Gardner phoned me. He told me he was now a freelance reporter.

Later Margaret phoned to say that the VO had arrived.

The next day I got a call from a Mail on Sunday reporter, Mr Rice who asked if he came to Ireland would I speak to him.

I agreed and he said he would be over the next day.

I then became a little concerned as I was due to visit Barry and wondered if speaking to the reporter would cause another row.

Fortunately he had also called to Michelle which I thought might take the flak off me.

The report appeared on Sunday and referred to the Panorama programme which was being made by Raphael Rowe.

It mentioned two jurors who were having doubts and who apparently were willing to appear on the programme.

It also mentioned that FBI agents criticised the Met Polices handling of the single particle evidence.

On Monday Raphael asked me not to discuss the programme with MOJO.

I replied that I had fallen out with them in 2001 due to the News of the World article.

But I feared that a last minute hitch might have negative consequences and so I texted Michelle asking her to urge discretion on MOJO.

She replied that they hadn’t known about the programme.

On Thursday August 3rd I again went to London.

It was a good trip, uneventful except for a poor man who finally cracked after over three hours in the ‘quiet’ coach listening to a hyperactive loud child.

On Friday I went to Mario’s café for breakfast.

Later Raphael Rowe phoned Margaret and I spoke to him.

Unknown to us on September 4th a Forensic Science Service report prepared for the CCRC dismissed the FDR evidence which dammed Barry as inconclusive.

In their opinion it provided no support for the prosecutions case that Barry had killed Jill Dando.

It would be another year before we became aware of that.

Raphael Rowe phoned me to say that the Panorama-George programme would be broadcast on September 5th.

I took a day’s holiday to watch it because as luck would have it I was on a late shift and I feared I would not get to see it.

At 21.00 I settled down to watch Panorama.

It began with Raphael saying to Barry over Margaret’s telephone ‘so you didn’t kill Jill?’ …’course not, replied a surprised Barry.

Then the photo of Barry which I got taken at Whitemoor was shown alongside the prison envelope in which it was returned to me after the prison refused to allow Barry to have it.

CCTV footage of Jill Dando on her last journey and a clip of 29 Gowan Avenue was shown, and Helen Doble’s 999 phone call was played.

Mike Burke – Uncle of killer Barry George & Michelle Diskin Bates

PS;

Raphael Rowe did NOT “clear” his name nor has he ever proved he was not responsible for the violent crimes for which he was originally convicted of committing! Read more here

Link to Part 15 HERE

Murderer, Prolific Sexual Predator & Fraudster Barry George Seemingly Duped Tubitt Scaffolding Into Sponsoring Him #Netflix #WhoKilledJillDando? (Part 13)

Killer Barry George as Steve Francis Majors on 17th September 1981 at Nottingham’s Long Eaton stadium

Did Barry George Work For Tubitt Scaffolding For Cash In Hand

In 1981 killer Barry George duped Alan Warrener, who owned Tubitt Scaffolding, into sponsoring him.

Barry George had changed his name by deed poll to Steve Francis Majors and had allegedly posed as a stuntman.

It is not known how Barry George met Alan Warriner or if he worked for Tubitt Scaffolding around the time.

However in September 1981 Alan’s business Tubitt Scaffolding built the platform which was used by sexual predator and fraudster Barry George to roller state over four double decker buses.

Barry George had also concocted a convincing fake CV (curriculum vitae) in which he had pretended to have starred in the films Rollerball and Who Dares Wins.

The event took place in Nottingham’s Long Eaton Stadium on the 17th September 1981 and apparently over 5,000 tickets were sold.

Alan Warriner stated of Barry George;

The lad had convinced me he could do it.

He showed me photos supposedly of him doing stunts – and I honestly believed it was him.

On the day the conditions were so bad I begged him not to do the jump I thought he’d die up there. 

When he finally got up on the ramp, he almost lost his nerve.

We were all terrified.

But he just pushed himself off knowing that there was no going back.

Statements by Alan Warriner of Tubbit Scaffolders – Source here

How Much Money Did Barry George’s Grift Earn Him?

It is not known how much money Barry George made from this event or if he ever attempted to sue anyone for the injuries he suffered after rolling stating over the four double decker buses.

On landing, after his roller skating stunt, it was found Barry George had dislocated his spine and had fractured a leg.

Link to Part 14 HERE