DNA could release man found guilty of Southampton murder from prison after 27 years!

[Louis MacNeice]

Many people have been murdered by released murderers.

Poor poor argument; the state should be better than a recidivist murderer. And we should support laws that help it be better.

Louis MacNeice

 

[Azrael]

Poor poor argument; the state should be better than a recidivist murderer. And we should support laws that help it be better.

It is. Murderers don't give their victims due process, jury trial and an appeal before they act.

What "better" laws will keep released murderers from recidivism and fresh murdering?

 

[Azrael]

What your proposal means, in effect, is that people could be compelled to submit to warrantless searches of their person based on nothing but the whim of some flat-footed, rabbit-brained PC Fucking Plod.

Ah, *finally* someone else notices the scandal of the police having the power to routinely seize DNA from prisoners without a search warrant or probable grounds. No British civil rights organisation has raised a peep about this, and there's zero public debate about the issue of warrantless seizure of biometrics under PACE. The word "seizure" isn't even used. Everyone focuses on whether samples are kept or destroyed, not how the police should obtrain them in the first place.

Taking DNA is the most intimate search and seizure imaginable. Routine fishing trips of prisoners' genetic code are a disgrace. If we followed something like the Canadian model, then our bloated database would never have been created.