THE LUKE MITCHELL TRIAL

The following attachments are a copy of my 25 June, 2024 correspondence and resulting reply. As became evident during past 6 months, despite assertions otherwise, the Luke Mitchell case trial transcripts have always been available to everyone. A reference to both the 1993 Order and 1995 Act is germane, as the long superceded 1993 Order is cited by Sandra Lean, author of related book, 'Innocents Betrayed' (2018) and foremost campaigner for a miscarriage of justice, in support of incessant and erroneous claims that the case trial transcripts are not available to members of the public. Effectively, Luke Mitchell's trial was held in an open court and reported on daily by the media. These transcripts are a verbatim account of each day's proceedings, incorporating legal arguments which the jury were not always permitted to hear and occasionally required to leave the courtroom. The related background is comprehensively documented here: AVAILABILITY OF TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS - THE

24 September, 2023 'Bob Ruff podcast' During this discussion, Bob Ruff notes that 'court files', are readily available in the U.S., to which Sandra Lean responds: "No, they're not made public over here, at all. Certain documents, like the appeal documents, are made public, but that's it. And trial transcripts are massively expensive, hugely and although I have the defence papers, it's actually an offence for me to share them, to third parties who are not directly working on this case. So, if we were to put them on line, for example, they're gonna come through me. Simple as that and that's why I can take excerpts and I can show excerpts, but the minute I start to put full documents out, that's when I cross the line". Circa 4:45 minutes into the  full interview recording. 15 October, 2023 'Bob Ruff podcast' Sandra Lean begins: The first question is actually not on the list, it only came up in the last couple of days. You will reme

On 24th December, 2004,  the following article was published by NME : MARILYN MANSON DVD PLAYED IN MURDER TRIAL MARILYN MANSON’s DVD ‘THE GOLDEN AGE OF GROTESQUE’ was played in court yesterday (December 23) in the trial of a teenager accused of murdering schoolgirl JODI JONES. The DVD – which shows two girls tied together near a track and struggling as hoods were placed over their heads – was seized by police from the home of Luke Mitchell, 16, who denies murdering Jodi on June 30 last year. He told detectives he bought the DVD two days after 14-year-old Jodi’s naked and bloodstained body was found in woods near her home in Dalkeith, near Edinburgh. The High Court in Edinburgh was told that during the police interview on July 4 last year Mitchell also chatted about his musical interests, including Marilyn Manson. (...) He told Detective Constable Stephen Quinn: “It is a weird sort of gothic video.” Mitchell described the contents as “trancestyle”, with Manson “saying random words and s