by team UAB, lsw
I saw this as a news channel headline yesterday. Interesting that they found this guy after 20 years, and that a DNA profile from his sister led to his capture:
| Ms Wright said Lloyd was caught after South Yorkshire Police decided to reopen the case five years ago. DNA from samples at the time were compared with samples on the police database. More than 40 close matches were eventually obtained and the third house police knocked on turned out to be that of Lloyd's sister, whose sample had been taken when she was arrested for drink-driving. |
5 comments:
Catching criminals after 20 years through DNA is awesome. This gives people hope that all people who commit crimes will eventually be caught. The world has come so far with DNA testing and I hope that more advances are made in the future. HMW
It's amazing that from 20 years ago when DNA evidence was in its enfancy, to today that they were able to use the same samples and this time come up with the perpetrator of the crime. This gives me a greater feeling of security and assurance that justice will be served. EAK
for both, it is great that well preserved evidence can be retested as the technology progresses. I think the analysis end is well advanced, but there is still a lot to be done with collection and preservation. Hopefully, future methods will make it easier to find and collect evidence at the scene that would normally go missing.
However, this topic of looking for relatives of a close DNA match is currently a hot topic. Although they found the guy, they had to bother/harass 40 other innocent people. Is it worth harassing 40 innocent people to get the right guy? what if the police came to your door and asked for a dna sample to help them in an investiggation. would you give it to them? our senators are debating this as we speak!
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As I know there are now several DNA databases in existence around the world. Some are private, but most of the largest databases are government controlled.
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