TV series to investigate the murder of Easthouses girl Jodi Jones

A two-part television series investigating the death of Easthouses girl Jodi Jones in 2003 will air next week.
By Kevin Quinn
Published 18th Feb 2021, 10:23 BST
Updated 18th Feb 2021, 10:28 BST
Now, 17 years after the murder of Jodi Jones, two former detectives now private investigators, will reopen the case files and re-examine the police and prosecution’s case against Luke Mitchell, for the Channel 5 TV series, Murder in a Small Town.Now, 17 years after the murder of Jodi Jones, two former detectives now private investigators, will reopen the case files and re-examine the police and prosecution’s case against Luke Mitchell, for the Channel 5 TV series, Murder in a Small Town.
Now, 17 years after the murder of Jodi Jones, two former detectives now private investigators, will reopen the case files and re-examine the police and prosecution’s case against Luke Mitchell, for the Channel 5 TV series, Murder in a Small Town.

Channel 5’s Murder in a Small Town, which begins on Wednesday at 9pm and concludes the following night, re-examines the case against Luke Mitchell, the teenager convicted of his girlfriend Jodi’s brutal murder and ordered to serve at least 20 years in jail.

Two former detectives now private investigators reopen the case files and uncover details of other male DNA found at the crime scene and new information about a third local male from a witness living in the area at the time.

While in the second episode Luke Mitchell and his mother Corinne take a lie detector test.