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Express & Star 10 Apr 10
More than 350,000 DNA samples have been collected by police in the West Midlands in less than a decade.
Figures show an average of 40,000 samples have been taken every year since controversial changes to the law in 2001 allowing forces to keep samples of people arrested, even if they are not charged or convicted…
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Fionnuala Bourke Mercury 14 Feb 10
A band who were arrested and held overnight after Staffordshire Police wrongly thought they had a gun in their van have had DNA samples returned to them. Armed cops surrounded London-based band The Thirst and their backstage staff as they left The Oak pub, in Burntwood, Staffordshire, in November…
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Tom Whitehead Telegraph 19 Jan 10
Tory MP, Greg Hands, gave a DNA sample and fingerprints to police in 2007 after his distant uncle, 80-year-old Les Ince, was found at his Park Hall home with a 14-inch barbecue skewer in his neck, suffering injuries from which he later died…
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Mark Cowan B’ham Mail 25 Nov 09
The genetic fingerprints of more than one in ten people in the West Midlands are stored on the DNA crimefighting database. The shock figure emerged as West Midlands Chief Constable and Britain’s top cop of forensics rejected claims that police were routinely arresting people just to get their DNA samples…
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Express & Star 14 Nov 09
More than 25,000 DNA profiles have been uploaded onto the national database by West Midlands Police in the last year, it has been revealed. Just under 5,000 of them were from youngsters under the age of 18…
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Birmingham Post 28 May 09
He was the first prosecutor to use DNA evidence to convict a double murderer and has overseen some of the most high profile criminal cases in the UK. Jeanette Oldham speaks to David Blundell, the Chief Crown Prosecutor in the West Midlands, who retires this week…