court to suggest guilt. The Jones family made it known that Mitchell was not welcome at the funeral. Suspicion falls on Mitchell School authorities cited concern about Mitchell's safety in unsuccessfully attempting to prevent his return to school; two months after the murder he was suspended after objecting to being separated from other pupils. After the discovery of the body, Mitchell was initially questioned as a witness; he quickly became the main focus of the investigation. Ten months later he was arrested and charged with the crime. He was also charged with the possession of a knife or knives in public places, including St David's High School, and of supplying cannabis. The timing of this meant that he could be tried as an adult in court. Police were later criticised for infringing his human rights by questioning him without a solicitor present. During a search of his home, detectives confiscated a copy of The Golden Age of Grotesque by Marilyn Manson containing the short film Doppelherz. It was purchased two days after Jones's death. A ten-minute excerpt from the film, as well as several paintings by Manson depicting the Black Dahlia's mutilated body, were presented as evidence during the trial. Trial At his trial at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, Mitchell pleaded not guilty and lodged a special defence of alibi: that he was at home cooking dinner at the time of the murder. He did not testify. Prosecution case A woman testified that she had seen someone resembling Mitchell near the murder scene. Mitchell was seen as having "guilty knowledge"; in finding the body, the prosecution said he had demonstrated that he already knew where it was. A witness claimed seeing two people resembling Mitchell and Jones at the Easthouses end of the path around 4.50pm with another two witnesses claiming to see Mitchell at the Newbattle end 50 minutes later. Mitchell's brother testified that he had been viewing internet pornography in the house at the time Mitchell said he had been there; under cross-examination Mitchell's brother said he would only have done this if he thought the house to be otherwise empty, and also said that he had not seen Mitchell in the house that afternoon, thereby failing to corroborate Mitchell's defence of being in the family home at the time of the murder. The prosecution also believed Mitchell had taken an interest in the Black