{"id":143131,"date":"2016-11-25T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=143131"},"modified":"2016-11-29T06:53:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T06:53:35","slug":"a-no-body-murder-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=143131","title":{"rendered":"A No-Body Murder Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Kollerstrom — Terror on the Tube Nov 24, 2016<\/h1>\n

The judgment on 23rd<\/sup> November, 7th<\/sup> day of the trial, sentenced Mair to life-imprisonment.<\/h3>\n
This trial would have made judges of old turn in their graves. What, no defence? Not a word from the accused, not even as to whether he was guilty or not? No sign of any dead body? Was it hacked to death and no drop of blood to be seen? I heard the jury being told that they could not be shown photos of the actual corpse, because it might upset them, and instead would only be shown computer-generated images.<\/h5>\n
\u2018Habeus corpus,\u2019 a most basic concept of British justice, translates as, \u2018have you got the body?\u2019 That is necessary for a murder trial to proceed. \u00a0In this case we have seen no pictures of Jo cox\u2019s dead body, nor any credible-looking death certificate from a coroner or receipt from Leeds General Infirmary of receipt of the body, somewhere around 1.40 on 16.6.16. There is no body, there is no blood.<\/h5>\n
Trial and verdict via media had totally prejudged the case before the court even opened.<\/h5>\n
Who was the man sitting in the Old Bailey court 8 for six days, looking utterly bored and uninterested? Even when CCTV was shown of allegedly him hacking someone to death, I saw him not bother to look up. Nobody asked a witness to identify him, no-one asked him to swear on oath as to who he was. They could have easily given us evidence that his DNA matched that found in Thomas Mair\u2019s home, had they wished: but did not. Was he some police agent? Maybe he was silent because, although a lookalike, his voice would not have sounded like Mair.<\/h5>\n
\"Thomas<\/a>

Thomas Mair, Jo Cox’s alleged killer. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Thomas<\/a>

Thomas Mair, recent police photo. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is the one and only picture the world was shown on T.M. after the event, compared with (a) an earlier student I.D. of his, (b) the picture of the man on trial, (c) a CCTV image shown at the trial, supposedly taken just before the murder. If I may quote the view of H.T. (who collected these 4 images): \u201cTo me that [the student I.D.] does look like the gardener\u2019s face, but not so much like the interviewed person, nor the police pic, nor the CCTV attacker. Can we demand CCTV moving footage somehow, that the still was taken from?\u201d She noted that the \u2018CCTV attacker\u2019 had a longer face, a knobbly nose, a beard and maybe dark moustache I was told that the Defence was not contesting his identity and therefore the Court did not require evidence of who he was. The Defence contested virtually nothing in this trial \u2013 in fact there was no defence.<\/em><\/h5>\n
\"CCTV<\/a>

CCTV image of Mair shortly after the murder. He is alleged to have changed his clothes after the killing. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Hi-res images were soon posted up<\/a><\/span>, showing the pavement all around the library and not a drop of blood <\/em>anywhere. The story needed blood and so when \u2018Thomas Mair\u2019 was arrested \u2013 making no attempt to escape or resist \u2013 they dashed his head against the pavement so he was bleeding profusely. Soon they were claiming that his blood DNA-tested was inside his zip-up carrier bag, and over his mobile phone, \u00a0on his gun, etc. This was very thorough, but the story didn\u2019t make sense \u2013 how was it supposed to have got inside his bag and onto these various objects?<\/h5>\n
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Thomas Mair’s purported student ID. clcik to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The story didn\u2019t need to make sense \u2013 the media give their fatuous, daily accounts of the trial, ensuring that citizens received their dose of horror, and heard how wicked was this \u2018Britain first\u2019 loner. No-one can afford to buy a transcript of the court proceedings, so as long as the jury vote him guilty, which they did of course, then we will soon forget about it, don\u2019t we?<\/h5>\n
What was the motive? T.M.\u2019s primary motive was presumably to get himself locked away for life, because he would clearly have known, as he strolled down the hill, having hacked the Labour Party M.P. to death, that the police would catch him very soon. He must also surely have known that his act would damage the Brexit campaign. But would a murderer really choose a spot in a bustling town center at noon in between a caf\u00e9 and the local library? (here and<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>here<\/span>)<\/a> Was Birstall MP Jo Cox set upon by this man, in no way strong-looking, while six of seven people stood around witnessing it (two in the car with her, two from the library,\u00a0 a couple more from the caf\u00e9 across the road, etc., etc) \u2013 then he strolls off down the hill! Here is the scene:<\/h5>\n
\"Jo<\/a>

Jo Cox murder scene. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

(Thanks Chris Spivey)<\/h5>\n
Instead, her car the silver Astra Vauxhall had just parked by the library, and she emerged with two others, when she was set upon, at 12.52. Then death was certified at 1.48 pm. As Jo Cox was lying on the pavement, then \u2013 if you believe Richard Whittam lawyer for the prosecution \u2013 she dragged herself along and rolled into the road between two cars, in her death agony. On the next day the 17th<\/sup> two local newspapers reported their stories: that she had been pronounced dead on the ground i.e. pavement in front of the library (Yorkshire Evening Post); or, pronounced dead in the Leeds Infirmary at that same time (Huddersfield Examiner). It\u2019s unclear what happened to her, but no-one photographed a stretcher with the body of the local MP being carried into an ambulance. Such a photographic image could not possibly have been missed. Despite all the people standing around, no-one photographed anything at all!<\/em><\/h5>\n
The picture shows the spot where the murder allegedly took place \u2013 or, one of the spots as witnesses did not all agree on this matter. It\u2019s on the far-left of this picture, a downward-slope exit from the public library. All the media images cut out the adjacent coffee shop! I guess the idea of plotting a murder of local MP in broad daylight in-between a coffee shop and the local library would have seemed just too absurd. Next, here is a photo of various police immediately after whatever happened, showing the clean, clear surface of the pavement:<\/h5>\n
\"jo-cox-murder-scene-2\"<\/a><\/h5>\n
We note the pair of shoes in the distance: she crawled in her death-agony along that stretch of pavement \u2013 or so the Court was told. The Court heard several different stories of where she was attacked. The day after the event, the Yorkshire Evening Post<\/em> reported that she had been walking down that slope coming out of the library, when she was attacked. That was also the BBC news version, just hours after the event: \u2018She only managed to walk a few yards from the library where (1 min) she was holding surgery meeting, speaking to her constituents before she was shot\u2026. Minutes before the attack she was in her local library.\u2019\u00a0 Also on the day the Mirror reported<\/a><\/span> only that she had been \u2018critically injured.\u2019 How could these first accounts be so wrong?<\/h5>\n
The Surgery at the library was to have been 1-2 pm, and Ms Cox was just emerging from her car when it happened, that soon became the standard account. The first witness told how the silver Vauxhall Astra car drove up to the library and three people got out: Jo Cox, Fuzilla Aswat her personal assistant (who drove the car) and Sandra Major. Ms Cox went around the back of the car when someone was \u2018caught on CCTV\u2019 rushing towards her. Later on the death-scene shifted to the front of that car, with accounts of how she fell onto the pavement then rolled over into the road, between two cars. Here is the BBC picture of what the scene was supposed to look like from the air, you can see the space in-between the two cars with some \u2018d\u00e9cor,\u2019 but no sign of any death-struggle anywhere. Can a person be stabbed fifteen times and shot three times, and then lie there for quite a while, with no drop of blood anywhere?<\/h5>\n
\"The<\/a>

The scene outside Birstall library shortly after the shooting\/stabbing of Jo Cox. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Accounts kept varying as to whether Ms Cox dies on the pavement or in Leeds General Infirmary. She was shot in the head at point-blank range with a rifle-gun and so fell backwards onto the ground (court testimony by Sandra Major) and then she started to speak! \u2018Get away, get away you two! Let him hurt me \u2013 don\u2019t let him hurt you.\u2019 Yes it\u2019s an absurd narrative \u2013 and would we expect it from one shot in the face at point-blank range? Are not some rather poor storytellers at work here? If it\u2019s not physically possible, it didn\u2019t happen.<\/h5>\n
\u2018Mair\u2019 in his late fifties was described by Ms Aswat as wearing a dark baseball hat, having silvery hair over his eyes and ears and having a blue holdall bag. Throughout this case, accounts\u00a0 of whether \u2018Mair\u2019 was wearing a black or white cap would keep changing, in an absurd manner. At a quarter to ten on that morning the 16th<\/sup>, his neighbor Julia Nelson who knew him well was on the 229 bus, when she saw him walking along, with his little goatee beard<\/em>, grey in color.\u00a0 He always wore a baseball cap, she said, the usual light-color. That sounded quite authentic. He had a beard, and so the fellow in the court had to have a beard \u2013 contrary to the picture we\u2019d all been given of him earlier, clean-shaven.<\/h5>\n
The Court heard in great detail from a forensic DNA expert on where it was found, identifying it as that of Thomas Mair, but not saying who the Thomas Mair was from whom they had taken their source-sample for comparison. They could have easily taken some from his flat, and ascertained whether it was the same as that of the guy in the dock. The police arrested their suspect and at once caused him to bleed profusely \u2013 was that the source of the DNA matching?<\/h5>\n
The whole event is very much like a conjuring-trick, where you think you have seen a tragic death, but the whole core of the story is simply missing. The narrative keeps, changing, which sort of hints that the thing did not happen.<\/h5>\n

Character<\/h2>\n

An utterly different character is imprinted upon the \u2018victim\u2019 \u2013 and it is here not impossible that Thomas Mair is the *only* victim in whatever happened on that day. Here is what locals said of him<\/a><\/span>:<\/h5>\n
The picture that emerged of the man known as Tom or Tommy from those who knew him best was of a quiet and caring loner. His half-brother, who is mixed race, claimed he had been volunteering at a school for children with disabilities for several years and had never expressed any racist views. Duane St Louis, 41, described his brother as a devoted son who shopped for their mother twice a week and who had visited her on Wednesday night to help tune her TV. He would give locals gardening tips as he strolled down the road to use the library computer.<\/h5>\n
Duane insisted his brother had never expressed any racist views and seemed quite happy to have a mixed-race sibling. Asked whether his brother had any strong political views, he replied: \u201cNot that I know of.\u201d He said he had no idea how Mair had got hold of a gun and did not have any hobbies that would require a firearms licence. Duane\u00a0said he couldn\u2019t believe the news. \u201cI was watching Sky News and I recognised him in handcuffs on the ground,\u201d he said. \u201cIt felt like a dream. I just couldn\u2019t believe he\u2019d do something like that. Friends said Mair had never shown any interest in politics or the EU referendum.<\/h5>\n
Here is a quote from this gentle, caring fellow \u2013 the only real one you will ever hear \u2013 concerning how well volunteer gardening works as a cure for depression:<\/h5>\n
I can honestly say it has done me more good than all the psychotherapy and medication in the world. Many people who suffer from mental illness are socially isolated and disconnected from society, feelings of worthlessness are also common, mainly caused by long-term unemployment.<\/h5>\n
All these problems are alleviated by doing voluntary work. Getting out of the house and meeting new people is a good thing, but more important in my view is doing physically demanding and useful labour. When you have finished there is a feeling of achievement which is emotionally rewarding and psychologically fulfilling. For people for whom full-time, paid employment is not possible for a variety of reasons, voluntary work offers a socially positive and therapeutic alternative.<\/h5>\n
Hear, hear! He had another brother Scott Mair, 49, who told reporters he had wept when he heard about the killing. He said: \u201cI am struggling to believe what has happened. My brother is not violent and is not all that political. I don\u2019t even know who he votes for. Nick Gannon, 33, who lived two doors away from Mair, has known him since he was 10 years old. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking,\u201d he said. \u201cHe were a quiet guy, you would not think it of him. He would cut elderly people\u2019s grass voluntarily. There were no reason to think he would be capable of something like this.\u201d \u2018He never showed any political interest at all, never mentioned it, not even to his brother.\u2019 (Stephen Lees<\/a><\/span>)<\/h5>\n
Quite a few such testimonies appeared from locals, who obviously liked him and knew him well. He had lived on that estate for decades and was well-known to the locals. See eg here<\/a><\/span> about the voluntary work he did to assist Muslims in learning English, and before that with \u2018Pathfinders,\u2019 a community care movement. Let\u2019s have one more from Kathleen Cooke<\/span>,<\/a> about this gentle, a-political fellow:<\/h5>\n
\u201cHe is very helpful and he helps local people with their gardens. There is one neighbour who is a bit frail and he keeps her garden tidy. He has helped me cut my hedge a couple of times.<\/h5>\n
\u201cHe has lived here for 40 years and has never been in any trouble and has never caused any trouble. He sometimes used to shout at the local kids if they played too near his house but that is fairly normal. I don\u2019t think he belonged to any political party and I never heard him express any views about Europe or anything like that. To us, he was just Tommy, a local bloke we all knew<\/h5>\n
At half-past one on the day, 16.6.16, the police burgled his flat and emerged with the claim that they had found Nazi regalia<\/a><\/span> and shelfloads of far-right literature. That, I suggest, is not credible. We only heard of the claim in the old Bailey trial, i.e. they had months to prepare it. The police \u2018seized the computers\u2019 at the local Birstall library, where Mair had been the previous evening to visit far-right websites \u2013 mentioning the Daily Stormer<\/em>. No local library would permit visiting such an \u2018far-right\u2019 website. Try asking your local library.<\/h5>\n
This could be a new reason to avoid living alone, that police are liable to raid one\u2019s flat and \u2018find\u2019 what?<\/a> <\/span>\u2018Stuffed inside a draw was a copy of the book \u201cBlood in the Face: The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, Nazi Skinheads, and the Rise of a New White Culture\u201d and a Nazi Waffen SS book on race theory and mate selection guidelines,\u2019 etc., etc. Sure.<\/h5>\n
The Jury were misled, believing that both sides of a case were going to be put to them, as was traditionally the case. I heard them being literally threatened with imprisonment if they should visit websites (i.e. try to find out what happened) during this trial. Trapped into silence, they really only had one option. \u2018The rest is silence\u2019 \u2013 a haunting awful silence, after justice has not been done.<\/h5>\n
We remember the Memorial Service to Jo Cox the very next day, where no trace of grief<\/a> <\/span>could be seen on the faces of her family. Her sister who had just \u2018identified the body\u2019 could hardly keep a straight face<\/a><\/span>. Should that have been relevant to this trial? \u00a0Jo Cox \u201cwas reported by Haaretz in Jerusalem as being a campaign manager for Obama in 2008\u201d, was that relevant<\/a><\/span>? It\u2019s hard to find a wedding certificate for her and Brendon Cox, as if she had changed her name from Leadbeater to Cox without a legal wedding.<\/h5>\n

Notes<\/h3>\n

Richard Shepherd<\/u> was the Home Office pathologist who did the autopsy on Jo Cox \u2013 as he had earlier done for the alleged suicide of David Kelly. His testimony did then prevent<\/em> any Inquest: \u201cThe expert opinion of Dr Richard Shepherd was central or even crucial in the grounds upon which the Attorney General based his decision to refuse the plea for an inquest.\u00a0 It was relevant too in the hearing of my plea and the refusal of it in the Administrative Division of the High Court.\u00a0 I believe that he has not approached his task in an even-handed manner and that is unprofessional to say the very least.\u201d \u00a0– David Halpin MB BS FRCS<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Bernard Kelly<\/u><\/h3>\n
The identity of Bernard Kelly is rather suspect and unclear, ostensibly having the same birthday as Jo Cox on 22nd<\/sup> , the day before the Brexit vote, and being 77 years old: it seemed as if there were two of him ,or if he had maybe died in 2013; having a deadly dagger shoved into his chest to seventeen centimetres<\/em> (as the prosecution lawyer reaffirmed) and then seeming OK a few weeks later \u2013 if he could just have turned up in court it would have done a lot to resolve these questions. But, maybe that is why he couldn\u2019t. His testimony was just read out \u2013 hearsay evidence, why was that allowed? One of the four charges against Mair was that he had caused GBH to Mr Bernard Kelly, so how could the jury endorse that charge with him not even turning up?<\/h5>\n

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