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星期六， 2008年6月7日

由 夏恩·奥尼恩斯 | 谋杀、强奸和虐待儿童调查将被阻碍，如果法院裁决的欧洲人超过应该从英国的全国脱氧核糖核酸数据库去除500,000个脱氧核糖核酸样品，一位资深警察局长知道了 时代.

在他的第一次采访从退休作为数据库的主席， Tony湖发出了警告严肃的罪行将是未被发现，如果法官拒绝了警察存放被拘捕了，但不随后被判了罪进攻人的脱氧核糖核酸。

lake， Lincolnshire，要考虑所有可能的选择的敦促的部长的首要警察先生，如果法庭判决去反对英国。 “法律是法律。 我们签了字由欧洲原则决定，并且我赞赏它为所有政府是非常困难的，但我们必须了解是自动地创造风险的水平，当您开始过滤和清洗您的脱氧核糖核酸数据库时”，他说。

大臣’选择是有限的，因为案件由人权，判决欧洲法院的盛大房间审理，其中约束和无法挑战。 案件由2001年被拘捕并且有他们的指印，并且脱氧核糖核酸抽样采取的二个人带来从谢菲尔德。 他们争辩说，因为他们未被判罪任何罪行，应该现在毁坏样品。 他们的案件在英国的法院在2月被拒绝了，但由人权欧洲法院审理。 评断下半年期望。

lake， 57先生，退休下个星期，说案件是最恰当的问题在法医学和他驳回了辩论关于创造一个普遍脱氧核糖核酸数据库作为一条熏鲱鱼。 “您可能争辩说，这是宣言问题。 如果有一次辩论关于扩展数据库，则应该有一次全国辩论关于切口的后果它。 国家必须了解将有一种增加的风险到我们的能力解决罪行。

“它是潜在地毁灭的。 毫无疑问，它将防止各种各样的罪行的侦查，包括某些最严肃”。

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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