Rapist caught by DNA on craft knife 12 years after attack

[Pondlife]

I nominate this for Idiot of the Day Award.

Taken sorry

[expat]

Taken sorry

I don't believe that the Idiot of the Day Award should be given out before the end of the day. Much can happen between now and then.

[Pondlife]

I don't believe that the Idiot of the Day Award should be given out before the end of the day. Much can happen between now and then.

Whilst normally I'd agree with you, sometimes it's easy to spot the pure talent and anyway, AtW is on a posting sabatical.

[expat]

Whilst normally I'd agree with you, sometimes it's easy to spot the pure talent and anyway, AtW is on a posting sabatical.

OK, agreed!

[minestrone]

Rapist gets banged up and people are unhappy.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Only a moron with no imagination could support a "universal" DNA database - step forward, Blunkett, Charles Clarke et al.

[Incognito]

Explain speeding tickets then. With one of those it is an offence to be silent and you get a £1000 fine and points on your licence for not telling them it was you driving.......

For god's sake, if you're going to argue a point try researching it first. The law states that a vehicle’s keeper should know who is driving at all times; not naming the driver is a separate offence from speeding. If you genuinely do not know who was driving, you may have a case if you can show that you are not deliberately or negligently withholding the information.

Spoken like someone who's luckily never had a brush with the law.

The system has changed quite a bit in the last few years.

Wrong.

[BrilloPad]

Rapist gets banged up and people are unhappy.

I think everyone here has said they are happy. Who has not?

Are you trying to take away my award for "idiot post of the day"? You wont succeed you know.....

[dang65]

Rapist gets banged up and people are unhappy.

Yeah, that doesn't really work though does it. I mean, if the police marched down your road smashing in everyone's front door and ransacking each house then they'd probably find evidence of a prosecutable crime in a couple of them, whether it was pirate DVDs, downloaded porn on a computer or some fugitive from justice. You probably wouldn't want your house ransacked just because of those odds though.

A universal DNA database might not be quite as extreme as that, but it's not far off really. It might be technically up to the law to find evidence to prove your guilt, but they can spend a long, long time ******* up your life while they do so. And a lot of innocent people would be picked up because of coincidental DNA evidence.

[BrilloPad]

probably find evidence of a prosecutable crime in a couple of them, whether it was pirate DVDs, downloaded porn on a computer or some fugitive from justice.

Or all of them?