I’m sorry sir, we appear to have lost your DNA
Posted on Thursday, May 17th, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Crime, DNA
Today we learn the Forensic Science Service forgot to upload about 26,000 DNA samples onto the national database between 1994 and 2005.
I expect they dropped them down the back of the sofa, along with those 27,000 case files on offences committed by British citizens abroad. (Is this the Home Office version of “sofa government”…?)
This mistake left nearly 200 crimes undetected. Nice one.
Only this government could have a DNA database that tracks the innocent and leaves off the guilty.
Interestingly, the Home Office announced this gem themselves. A new outburst of frankness? Well, given ministers have apparently known since January, no. Just clearing the decks of bad news in time for the new guy is my guess.
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