Sol Invictus
02-04-2010, 09:09 PM
February 4 2010 | Dailymail.co.uk
Keeping profiles of the innocent on the DNA database causes immense distress and has even led to suicide, the pioneer of fingerprinting technology warned MPs yesterday.
Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented the use of DNA to fight crime, said storing these records could lead to 'an unfair presumption of guilt'.
The DNA database for England and Wales holds over five million profiles with around one million having no criminal conviction.
Sir Alec said he had been frequently contacted by innocent people on the database to say how distressed they were and he called for their records to be removed immediately.
Read More Here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248358/DNA-database-causing-suicides-MP-warned.html)
Keeping profiles of the innocent on the DNA database causes immense distress and has even led to suicide, the pioneer of fingerprinting technology warned MPs yesterday.
Sir Alec Jeffreys, who invented the use of DNA to fight crime, said storing these records could lead to 'an unfair presumption of guilt'.
The DNA database for England and Wales holds over five million profiles with around one million having no criminal conviction.
Sir Alec said he had been frequently contacted by innocent people on the database to say how distressed they were and he called for their records to be removed immediately.
Read More Here (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1248358/DNA-database-causing-suicides-MP-warned.html)