Crimes missed by DNA database failures
May 23, 2007
Nearly 200 crimes in England went undetected for as long as 11 years because of failures by Home Office forensic experts, according to reports.
More than 26,000 DNA profiles were not added to Britain's National DNA Database between 1995 and 2004, the Guardian has reported.
A review of the database between September of 2005 and January of 2006 found 1,168 matches between forensic samples from crime scenes and profiles already in the system, the Guardian said. Of those, 355 were first-time matches that had gone unnoticed prior to the review.
The information was sent to police, which led to the investigation of 85 suspects identified in 183 crimes, a Home Office spokesman told the Guardian.
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