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Gregory2Smith1

J'les aurai!
Sep 21, 2011
5,476
Auch
Interesting case up in Newcastle
bloke gets arrested for pissing in his neighbours flower pots
DNA taken,matches two rapes back in the 1980s
claims he is still innocent
so now they're digging up the old man who died some years earlier
just as well he wasn't cremated
it will solve the case once and for all
I get the feeling he's probably innocent
surely you wounldn't disturb your father's grave,knowing that the result will be certain
facing 23 years in the slammer for something you haven't done
although DNA suggests you did
I guess the question is,would you volunteer yours
I would

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-25-years-ago-dug-hes-guilty-sons-rapes.html
 


Robot Chicken

Seriously?
Jul 5, 2003
13,154
Chicken World
So, the moral of the story is...don't piss in your neighbour's flower pots?
 


symyjym

Banned
Nov 2, 2009
13,138
Brighton / Hove actually
Interesting case up in Newcastle
bloke gets arrested for pissing in his neighbours flower pots
DNA taken,matches two rapes back in the 1980s
claims he is still innocent
so now they're digging up the old man who died some years earlier
just as well he wasn't cremated
it will solve the case once and for all
I get the feeling he's probably innocent
surely you wounldn't disturb your father's grave,knowing that the result will be certain
facing 23 years in the slammer for something you haven't done
although DNA suggests you did
I guess the question is,would you volunteer yours
I would

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-25-years-ago-dug-hes-guilty-sons-rapes.html

If he is younger than thirty he is certainly innocent. But it's good that dead people can be identified for these types of crimes even if it is too late. Should included violent crimes on peoples headstones.
 


Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster
Jul 5, 2003
72,015
Surely the women would have known if the rapist was a man in his early twenties or a man in his late 50’s, early 60s?
 


AZ Gull

@SeagullsAcademy Threads: @bhafcacademy
Oct 14, 2003
11,589
Chandler, AZ
Surely the women would have known if the rapist was a man in his early twenties or a man in his late 50’s, early 60s?

Perhaps they did; the Mail article includes this:-

The judge said Mrs McKenna claimed her husband was convicted 'solely on the basis of DNA evidence and that other aspects of the evidence had pointed away from his being the perpetrator of the offences'.
 




Gregory2Smith1

J'les aurai!
Sep 21, 2011
5,476
Auch
if this fella's dad had been cremated
he would have done the time
 


Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull
Aug 27, 2011
8,486
Brighton
Looks like Trigger. trig.jpg
 


Baldseagull

Well-known member
Jan 26, 2012
10,869
Crawley
Interesting case up in Newcastle
bloke gets arrested for pissing in his neighbours flower pots
DNA taken,matches two rapes back in the 1980s
claims he is still innocent
so now they're digging up the old man who died some years earlier
just as well he wasn't cremated
it will solve the case once and for all
I get the feeling he's probably innocent
surely you wounldn't disturb your father's grave,knowing that the result will be certain
facing 23 years in the slammer for something you haven't done
although DNA suggests you did
I guess the question is,would you volunteer yours
I would

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...d-25-years-ago-dug-hes-guilty-sons-rapes.html

It might be that the DNA is so similar they can't say which belongs to the rapist, not sure what quality the scene of crime DNA evidence is, if it is just the results of tests done at the time, or if they have access to original samples.
 


Wardy's twin

Well-known member
Oct 21, 2014
8,402
I guess the underlying question is whether there should be a national database of DNA which could be used to solve crimes. I think it should be done but under the reservation that it will not be perfect.
 



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