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Article: New concerns over ngerprinting; Demands for Lord Advocate's resignation after independent expert insists fingerprint evidence is clearly 'unsafe'
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- October 5, 2003
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THE Scottish Criminal Records Office has been savaged over the
validity of its fingerprints evidence leading to calls for the head
of the Lord Advocate, an inquiry into Scottish forensics and the
suspension of leading fingerprint experts.
The furore follows the case of Mark Sinclair, who was found guilty
on Friday at the High Court in Ayr of carrying out a series of armed
bank robberies across southwest Scotland.
Two experts from the Scottish Criminal Records Office (SCRO)
analysed a fingerprint lifted from the scene of one of the robberies
and concluded that they had "no doubt" that the print belonged to
Sinclair.
However, Sinclair's defence team then sought independent analysis
of the ...