In a message dated 26/07/04 15:23:52 GMT Daylight Time,
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> As for the "5 other people", the police/courts would have to use
> additional evidence to determine from the six of you, which were the
> five innocent people and which the one guilty one.
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Obviously, with foreign visitors now more numerous, there is the possibility
of even more people matching your DNA profile being around at the time of your
non-crime. I suppose if I am one of those people the police will ask me
where I was at the time of the offence, and if my memory is bad, I'm in that
whatsitcalled, brown stuff that comes from, oh, you know. It's on the tip of my
whatsname.
However, there is a case of a man in Glasgow whose DNA matched and he was
convicted on that evidence alone, despite having a cast-iron alibi. I don't
remember too much about the case, does anyone else have more details?
Ian B
Ian Buckland
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