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يوم السّبت, يونيو - حزيران [7ث], 2008

ب [سن] [و]' نيل | جريمة قتل, عمليّة اغتصاب و [شلد بوس] سيعطّل تحقيقات كنت إن أوروبية محكمة يحكم أنّ أكثر من 500,000 [دنا] عينات سوفت كنت أزلت من بريطانيا وطنيّة [دنا] قاعدة معطيات, شرطة كبريات رئيس قد قال الأوقات.

في مقابلته أولى منذ [ستند دوون] كرئيس مجلس إدارة من القاعدة معطيات, أعطى بحيرة [توني] إنذار أنّ جرائم جدّيّة ذهبوا [أوندتكتد] إن قاضيات [برّ] شرطة من يخزّن ال [دنا] من الناس الذي تلقّى يكون أوقفت غير أنّ لا فيما بعد حكمت من مخالفات.

سيد [لك], موظّف كبير رئيسيّة لينكولنشاير, يعجّل وزير أن يعتبر كلّ يمكن خيارات إن المحكمة يحكم ذهب ضدّ بريطانيا. "القانون القانون. نحن قد وقعنا حتّى المبادئ أوروبيّة ويقدّم أنا أنّ هو جدّا يصعب ل أيّ حكومة, غير أنّ نحن ينبغي فهمت المستوى الخطر أنّ يكون يخلق تلقائيّا عندما أنت تبدأ أن ييصفّي وطهّرت ك [دنا] قاعدة معطيات," هو قال.

وزير' خيارات محدودة لأنّ الحالة يكون يكون سمعت بالغرفة عظيمة من المحكمة أوروبيّة حقوق الإنسان, القرارات [أف وهيش] ملزمة ومستحيلة أن يتحدّى. أحضرت الحالة كان باثنان رجال من [شفّيلد] الذي كان أوقفت في 2001 وتلقّى بصماتهم و [دنا] يجرب يأخذ. هم يجادلون أنّ, لأنّ هم كان لم يحكموا من أيّ جريمة, العينات سوفت الآن كنت دمّرت. رفضت حالتهم يتلقّى يكون في المحاكم بريطانيّة غير أنّ كان سمعت بالمحكمة أوروبيّة حقوق الإنسان في فبراير - شباط. حكم توقّعت [لتر ثيس ر].

قال سيد [لك], 57, الذي يتقاعد أسبوع تالية, أنّ الحالة كان الإصدار مناسبة أكثر في علم شرعيّة وهو صرف المناقشة حول يخلق عالميّة [دنا] قاعدة معطيات ك [رد هرّينغ]. "أنت استطاع جادلت أنّ هذا بيان رسميّ إصدار. إن هناك يكون مناقشة حول يمدّد القاعدة معطيات, بعد ذلك هناك سوفت كنت مناقشة وطنيّة حول النتيجات العمليّة قطع هو. البلد ينبغي فهمت أنّ سيكون هناك يزاد خطر إلى قدرتنا أن يحلّ جريمة.

"كان هو احتماليّا مدمّرة. دون شك, منع هو الكشف من تشكيل الجرائم, بما في ذلك بعض من ال أكثر جدّيّة."

More than 8,000 people who were on the database because they had been arrested, but not convicted, have been found guilty of subsequent offences after their DNA was recovered from crime scenes. The cases have involved about 14,000 offences, including 114 murders, 55 attempted murders and 116 rapes.

The database holds 4.5 million samples and is by far the largest in Europe. About 60,000 personal samples are added to it every month and further unknown profiles are loaded from crime scenes. DNA samples, which are always supported in court by other corroborating evidence, played a key role in the conviction of Steve Wright, who killed five prostitutes in Ipswich, and Mark Dixie, the killer of the model Sally Anne Bowman. It has also helped police to solve “cold cases” including rape cases dating back decades. Mr Lake said: “There have been spectacular results in cases where lives have been shattered, where women have been afraid to walk out their front doors for fear of bumping into the man who raped them 10, 15 or 20 years before.”

The greatest unforeseen benefit of DNA advances, however, has been in solving so-called volume crime, such as burglaries, assaults and car thefts. Mr Lake said: “The public expectation now is that crime will be solved, not by the presence of witnesses, but because there will be DNA. It has stolen the limelight but we get more convictions through finding fingerprints. Other areas of forensic science are opening.”

His fear is that an adverse ruling would not only hurt the DNA database but also restrict the use of fingerprints and other intelligence databases. “The question would quickly become. ‘To what extent does the ruling apply to other databases?’.”

The key issue for Mr Lake is whether the court will consider the rights of victims properly. “People will accuse me of playing the emotional card. Well, I don’t do emotional blackmail. You have to think the unthinkable. I would not like to be the officer who has to look a parent in the eye and say, ‘We could have prevented this’.”

Equal treatment

The future of the world’s most sophisticated DNA database is being considered by the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, which draws its members from the nations of the Council of Europe.

The 17-judge panel trying the DNA case includes some with limited or no experience of DNA technology.

The complainants, Michael Marper, 45, and a 19-year-old man from Sheffield referred to only as S, are relying on article 8 (right to private life) and article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the convention.

The teenager had his DNA taken when he was arrested in 2001 and charged with attempted robbery. He was acquitted. Mr Marper, 45, was charged with harassing his partner but the case was later dropped. They argue “that as people without convictions who are no longer suspected criminals, they should be treated in the same way as the rest of the unconvicted population of the UK”.

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