Scottish killer Luke Mitchell is set to make another bid to be released from prison after a petition to see him freed reached 25,000 signatures.
The 31-year-old has always maintained his innocence after he was convicted in 2005 for the murder of his girlfriend Jodi Jones, after her body was found in woodland near Dalkeith in 2003.
Sentenced to at least 20 years in prison, Mitchell's legal team are reported to be putting together a freedom bid that will be handed to the Scottish Parliament next week.
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Claiming they have collected over 120 items of evidence that were never forensically tested, legal representatives will arrive at Holyrood on November 16, the EEN reports.
The petition states the following: ‘The 2005 conviction of Luke Mitchell for the murder of Jodi Jones in 2003 requires an urgent and fully independent inquiry. There are far too many unanswered questions to consider this conviction safe.
‘In the spirit of true justice and transparency, we, the undersigned, demand that all evidence and information be released to an independent panel (not the SCCRC) for scrutiny, comment and recommendations. The people are willing to raise funds to contribute to the cost of such an inquiry.
‘There will be a peaceful vigil outside the Parliament on the same day.’
A documentary by Channel 5 had seen many question the conviction after the programme investigated claims that the conviction had been a miscarriage of justice.
Murdered when she was 14-years-old, Mitchell was found guilty of Jodi’s murder following a ten-month-long police investigation.
With the documentary prompting fresh support of his innocence, Jodi’s family had hit out at the claims, who spoke out about the hateful abuse they had received.
Speaking at the time, a family member had said: We were shocked at people on social media openly criticising the family of a murder victim, suggesting they were involved. A disgusting allegation and despicable position to put them in when their suffering continues.
“C5 and these ‘investigators’ have made the family’s suffering so amplified from all of the abuse from these armchair sleuths based on a biased and one sided programme. Why can people be so blinkered and forget the family?”
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