Eerie footage of an abandoned caravan site belonging to Corinne Mitchell, mother of convicted Midlothian killer Luke Mitchell, has surfaced which shows the old outbuilding full of personal belongings.
In 2021, a Channel 5 documentary explored the murder of Jodi Jones, who Mitchell was convicted of killing in 2003. Mitchell was ordered to serve at least 20 years in prison despite insisting he is innocent throughout court proceedings and his entire spell behind bars.
The documentary also focussed on the effect on Luke's mum Corinne and how she was living in an old outbuilding within a derelict caravan site with no running water, electricity or even a toilet.
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Formerly Scott's Caravans, the site is situated at Mayfield Industrial Estate - next to a Shell garage - and has become abandoned and frozen in time.
Two 'explorers' recently uploaded a video on TikTok where they gained access to the shed and came across old newspaper clippings of Luke that Corinne had kept, along with personal belongings including old CD's and clothes.
In August 2022, a planning application was submitted which, if granted, would turn the derelict site into a residential development consisting of one, two and three-bedroom homes.
During the Channel 5 documentary, Murder in a Small Town, Corinne told camera crews how she was forced out of her family home and had lived at the old caravan site for six years.
She added that following Luke's conviction, 40 caravans within the park were destroyed. She described the scenes as "utter carnage" after the police asked her to go out to the site at 3am.
The TikTok video is captioned: "Exploring the abandoned building in Mayfield that belongs to Luke Mitchell." Although it is unclear whether Luke ever lived at the site, The Record previously reported how his mother owned the caravan park.
Inside the eerie out-building, which Corinne says was her former office, it looks like it has been abandoned with some of her old belongings still inside. The floor is a sea of old caravan parts and boxes, with old CD's and boxes also left half packed.
Two damaged caravans also remain outside the shed-like building as Corinne previously states that was "all she has left." When the documentary was filmed in 2021, the 61-year-old was struggling with health problems as a result of her living situation.
In November, we reported how Mitchell is facing an open-ended sentence due to the fact he remains adamant that he did not kill Jodi, his girlfriend at the time.
To qualify for release in 2025, Mitchell would have to plead guilty to the brutal murder in front of the parole board. Mitchell was just 14 when accused of the murder of Jodi Jones after her body was found in a woodland area near Dalkeith.
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