Romper noticias | Foro | Noticias BRITÁNICAS | Noticias de los E.E.U.U. | Noticias del mundo | Noticias políticas | Noticias del Sci-Tech | Noticias de la guerra y del terrorismo | Noticias de los deportes | Multimedias | Fije el homepage

Sábado 7 de junio de 2008

Por Sean O' Neill | Las investigaciones del abuso del asesinato, de la violación y de niño serán obstaculizadas si una corte del europeo gobierna que más de 500.000 muestras de la DNA se deben quitar de la base de datos nacional de la DNA de Gran Bretaña, policía mayor que el jefe ha dicho Los tiempos.

En su primera entrevista desde la retirada como presidente de la base de datos, el lago Tony dio la advertencia que los crímenes serios irían desapercibidos si los jueces barraron a policía de almacenar la DNA de la gente que había sido arrestada pero condenada no posteriormente por una ofensa.

Sr. Lake, principal guardia de Lincolnshire, ministros impulsados para considerar todas las opciones posibles si la decisión de la corte fue contra Gran Bretaña. “La ley es la ley. Hemos firmado hasta los principios europeos y aprecio que sea muy difícil para cualquier gobierno, pero debemos entender el nivel del riesgo que es creado automáticamente cuando usted comienza a filtrar y a purgar su base de datos de la DNA,” él dijo.

Opciones de los ministros las' son limitadas porque el caso está siendo oído por el compartimiento magnífico de la corte europea de los derechos humanos, los actos de los cuales son obligatorios e imposibles desafiar. El caso fue traído por dos hombres de Sheffield que fueron arrestados en 2001 y tenían sus huellas digitales y la DNA muestrea tomado. Discuten que, porque los no condenaron por ningún crimen, las muestras ahora sean destruidas. Su caso se ha rechazado en las cortes británicas pero fue oído por la corte europea de derechos humanos en febrero. Un juicio espera a finales de este año.

Sr. Lake, 57, que retira la semana próxima, dijo que el caso era la edición más pertinente de la ciencia forense y él despidió el discusión sobre crear una base de datos universal de la DNA como arenque rojo. “Usted podría discutir que esto sea una edición del manifiesto. Si hay un discusión sobre ampliar la base de datos, entonces debe haber un discusión nacional sobre las consecuencias del corte él. El país debe entender que habrá un riesgo creciente a nuestra capacidad de solucionar crimen.

“Sería potencialmente devastador. Sin una duda, prevendría la detección de una variedad de crímenes, incluyendo algo del más serio.”

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”.

See More:Database State UK News 

Have Your Say: European court threat to British DNA database
Please note, only selected comments will be published.

Or discuss this report in our new forums

RSS TrackBack URL

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 at 1:13 am and is filed under Science & Technology News, Surveillance, Civil Liberties & Human Rights News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Loading ...

ADVERTISEMENTS

SITE MAPS

7/7 Afghanistan Alternative Energy Art BBC Big Brother Bilderberg Biometrics Bush CIA Climate Change Cover Up Cults Culture Database State David Hicks David Ray Griffin Democrats Demos Drugs Education EU False Flag FBI Fraud Free Speech Freemasons G8 Globalization Guantanamo Health News History ID Cards Internet Iran Iraq Israel Law Marches MI5 MI6 Microsoft Military MoD Money Music NASA Neocons NSA Oil Pakistan Podcast Police State Propaganda RFID RINF Rumsfeld Science Secrecy Security Space Sports Spying Stephen Lendman Technology Terrorism Tony Blair Torture TV UK News UN USA News Video Voting Warfare White House Wolfowitz World News Yahoo
2003 - 2005 Archives | 2005 - 2007 Archives | 2007 - 2008 Archives | Current Archives | Past Version