Please welcome DCC’s first guest blogger: Sue Carney! Sue Carney is an FSS senior forensic scientist. Her areas of expertise include body fluid interpretation and DNA evidence. She reports LCN and has worked on a number of cold cases. Follow Sue on Twitter as @LilacLounge. _________________________________________________________________________ DNA Profiling in Cold Cases – The UK Process by Sue [...]
Tags: DNA, Evidence, Forensics, UKThe Daily Mail Online reports that “the court heard Benson, whose criminal record read out in court ran to 13 pages, told a fellow prison inmate: ‘One down, 500 to go. I have burnt the car out. They are not getting any fingerprints on me.’ Later, he refused to co-operate with police when interviewed, instead [...]
Tags: Mike Silcock, slain officer, UKFantastic news: “Police have launched a fresh investigation into the murder of a police constable who was killed in riots in north London more than 18 years ago, Scotland Yard said. Pc Keith Blakelock was hacked to death during the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham in October 1985. A fresh investigation had also been launched [...]
Tags: Autopsy, Crime Scene, Cruelty, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Keith Blakelock, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesThe Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains (ICLVR) confirmed that human remains were found in Waterfoot, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Peter Wilson was 21 when he went missing from his home in the Falls Road area of west Belfast, in 1973. The commission has overseen the discovery of seven bodies and numerous searches since it [...]
Tags: Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Missing Person, Police, UK, VictimFollowing in his father’s footsteps, Lee Blakelock is now also a police officer, serving with Durham Constabulary, UK. He was eight years old when his father was killed. Pc Blakelock and his colleague Pc Richard Coombes were attacked during the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham in 1985. Coombes was seriously injured but survived. They were trying [...]
Tags: Autopsy, blakelock, Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesPc Keith Blakelock, a 40-year-old father of three, was murdered by a machete-wielding gang during the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham, north London, in October 1985. Detectives believe that now the net may finally be closing in on the killers and revealed that ten people – aged between 42-52 – have been questioned in recent [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Cruelty, Evidence, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, WitnessesIn August of 1984, a double sexual assault took place in West Norwood, south London, UK. A teenager assaulted a woman in her home and forced her flatmate to join in the abuse. The teenager wore a balaclava and used a iron bar to force the woman and her male flatmate to undress. He then forced [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Finger Printing, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, VictimAnother interesting comment about the case of Alice Barton has appeared online. It can be found here. The writer of this second comment raises good points. Police will have to look into the following matters: where did Aimee’s grandparents exactly live, which pub did the grandfather frequent and how did he get there after work. Did he have any means of [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Identification, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, VictimThe BBC posts that police have new leads in the cold case of Alice Barton (49) who was killed in 1955. Her body was found in Woodchurch, Birkenhead, UK. Her murderer has never been caught and the case remained open. Merseyside Police’s Serious Crime Review Unit has recently received new information about the case. A police spokeswoman [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, VictimThomas Joyce and Darren Hamilton have both been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. They are due before the Stockport Magistrates Court on Friday, July 23, 2010, along with Jake Hayes and Nathan Benson who were earlier charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. Stephen Benson of no fixed abode was earlier charged with causing death by dangerous driving and [...]
Tags: Crime Scene, Evidence, Forensics, Identification, Investigations Division, Police, UK, Unsolved Homicide, Victim
