CrimeDetection of Insulin traces and identification of Insulin type by Nanobore Quad/QTOF LC/MS/MS in a vanishingly small, 4.5 year old plasma trace remaining after the Prosecution had performed their analyses (First casework use in UK, and 1000 times as sensitive as any other method so far reported).
Case ReportCrimeRaising a full DNA profile from a pair of underpants 6.5 years old, and where the prosecution
had removed the stains, by cutting, to allow them to achieve maximum sensitivity of analysis.
Case ReportCrimeGSR, where we were the first, at the Central Criminal Court, to bring to the Court’s attention that Police transports and Premises had been shown to be likely to be contaminated by Gunshot Residue. (This was noticed as a result of our multidisciplinary expertise in an unrelated survey of explosives contamination in public places).
Case ReportCrimeThe Hammad Sakhi case of alleged rape (acquitted) and others, where the limitations of the degree to which the interpretation of the DNA analysis of mixed profiles could be achieved, were demonstrated.
Case ReportCrimeThe R v Ahmed Ali et al trial of the alleged attempt to destroy wide bodied passenger jets through the use of liquid explosives, where out of a total of four experts our report was chosen for the defence of the 8 accused. (Also the only expert in ten years of trials to locate research into production of key ingredient).
Case ReportCrimeR v Carter: where the CCTV images of a pair of trainers was analysed, and the prosecution found to have inadvertently utilised varying degrees of Ultra Violet Light as a result of different illumination processes during the process of photography. This had the effect of raising different patterns from fluorescent components on the surface of the trainer, and which as claimed to indicate that the seized item was different from that observed. Repeated photography at the scene confirmed this to be UNTRUE.
Case ReportCrimeR v Tang: The demonstration that one Kilogram of Cannabis Bud could be used by an individual with a high rate of consumption by smoking and cooking, for his own personal use.
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