Jodi murderer loses appeal bid

Teenage killer Luke Mitchell has failed in a bid to have his conviction for murdering his girlfriend Jodi Jones overturned.

Mitchell, 19, was found guilty in 2005 of killing the schoolgirl, whose mutilated body was found near her home in Dalkeith, Midlothian. Jodi, 14, had gone missing after going to meet her boyfriend in June 2003.

Lawyers for Mitchell argued he did not get a fair trial and was the victim of a miscarriage of justice. But three senior judges at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh ruled that his appeal against conviction should be refused.

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