Thursday, March 15, 2012

Contaminated DNA sends teen to jail for rape he didn't commit

http://www.cotwa.info/2012/03/contaminated-dna-sends-teen-to-jail-for.html

2 comments:

Malcolm said...

In this case the police acted entirely properly. Unfortunately it is impossible to prove a negative, so Mr Scott couldn't prove he hadn't been to Manchester and, in the face of DNA evidence suggesting he did do it, it was reasonable to suppose he was lying. Mr Scott now needs to sue the lab.

Anonymous said...

Braintree here, commenting from a public computer.

I would love to know how the error was discovered. Was it because the accused's solicitor started asking inconvenient questions or did the lab people independently figure out their own mistake and honestly come forward? If the latter, they deserve nothing but posies. Eveybody screws up. Not everyone is honest about it.