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Previously on "Rapist caught by DNA on craft knife 12 years after attack"
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.
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.
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.
Quit your scaremongering. The precis of British law is that you're innocent until proven guilty, the onus is on the state to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you are guilty.
Joe Bloggs getting arrested because his DNA is on an old TV he used to own is not going to get locked up just because his DNA is on a TV that's been nicked.
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.
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