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Sábado, junho 7o, 2008

Por Sean O' Neill | As investigações do abuso do assassinato, da violação e de criança hampered se uma corte do europeu governar que mais de 500.000 amostras do DNA devem ser removidas da base de dados nacional do DNA de Grâ Bretanha, polícias que sênior o chefe disse Os tempos.

Em sua primeira entrevista desde estar para baixo como o presidente da base de dados, o lago Tony deu o aviso que os crimes sérios iriam undetected se os juizes barrassem polícias de armazenar o DNA dos povos que tinham sido prendidos mas convicted não subseqüentemente de uma ofensa.

Sr. Lago, Constable principal de Lincolnshire, ministros incitados para considerar todas as opções possíveis se governar da corte for de encontro a Grâ Bretanha. “A lei é a lei. Nós assinamos até os princípios europeus e eu aprecio que é muito difícil para todo o governo, mas nós devemos compreender o nível do risco que é criado automaticamente quando você começa filtrar e remover sua base de dados do DNA,” ele disse.

As opções dos ministros' são limitadas porque o caso está sendo ouvido pela câmara grande da corte européia das direitas humanas, os rulings de que são obrigatórios e impossíveis desafiar. O caso foi trazido por dois homens de Sheffield que foram prendidos em 2001 e tiveram suas impressões digitais e o DNA prova feito exame. Discutem que, porque não convicted de nenhum crime, as amostras devem agora ser destruídas. Seu caso foi rejeitado nas cortes britânicas mas foi ouvido pela corte européia de direitas humanas em fevereiro. Um julgamento espera-se mais tarde este ano.

O Sr. Lago, 57, que aposenta a semana seguinte, disse que o caso era a edição a mais pertinente na ciência forensic e ele demitiu o debate sobre criar uma base de dados universal do DNA como um herring vermelho. “Você poderia discutir que esta é uma edição do manifesto. Se houver um debate sobre a expansão da base de dados, então deve haver um debate nacional sobre as conseqüências do corte ele. O país deve compreender que haverá um risco aumentado a nossa abilidade de resolver o crime.

“Seria potencial devastating. Sem uma dúvida, impediria a deteção de uma variedade dos crimes, including alguma do mais sério.”

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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