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Article: From Life on Mars to DNA - one lawyer's career in crime; He was the first prosecutor to use DNA evidence to convict a double murderer and has overseen some of the most high profile criminal cases in the UK. Jeanette Oldham speaks to David Blundell, the Chief Crown Prosecutor in the West Midlands, who retires this week.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2009
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Byline: Jeanette Oldham
t was all a bit like Life on Mars for the young criminal lawyer making his way in the rough world of law and disorder that was the Midlands in the 1970s.
Forget the Gentle Touch - and this wasn't Morse either.
The only code that David Blundell or anyone knew then was straight out of DCI Gene Hunt's book of rough justice.
It was a system which ended up, like so many of the criminals he prosecuted over the years, 'banged to rights'. All but forgotten, except for echoes on our TV screens.
"I recently watched ...
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