Your ridges gave you away…
If you are promoting stolen merchandize make sure the picture does not give you away!
Manchester Police couldn’t have wished for better proof of Stephen Taylor’s guilt. After coming into contact with stolen watches worth £4,000, Taylor draped them over his hand and took a high quality photo with his camera phone.
But the image ended up with police and was detailed enough for them to compare the hand in the photo with Taylor’s – and come up with a positive match. Taylor, who was trying to sell the watches, was later arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods.
Using a unique forensic examination analysing the distinctive ridges on the palm, it took officers less than an hour to conclusively link the photo to a handprint taken from the 29-year-old. Last night a police technician said: ‘The area of skin clearly shown in the photo showed enough ridge characteristics to make identification possible.
‘In fact it turned out that an area of the left hand palm held on the fingerprint database for Taylor matched the ridge detail on the palm in the photo exactly.’ The technician added: ‘No two people have ever been known to have the same ridge characteristics, even identical twins.’
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Categories: Forensics
Tags: Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, UK