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Judge calls for UK DNA database
BBC
| November 24 2004
Everyone who lives in Britain should have
their DNA stored on a national database, a top judge has said.
Lord Justice Sedley is well known for his
support of human rights, including upholding a ruling over the government
denying rights to asylum seekers.
The law lord said the potential gain from a national base
was considerable.
"The risks, so long as they are confronted, are controllable,"
he said during a Leicester University Law School lecture.
Lord Justice Sedley said he made no case for or against
the introduction of compulsory identity cards.
"But a society that feels able, as ours does, to give
serious consideration to such a step, ought not to turn its face away from
the case for a universal DNA register."
He said that DNA analysis had transformed the process,
not only of detection work by police, but proof in court.
The judge added: "What is particularly welcome is
that it is as potent in eliminating those who are wrongly suspected or accused
as it is in tracking down the guilty."
He was giving the law facility's annual lecture to a 150-strong audience
of law lecturers, students and prominent citizens from Leicester.
Endless uses
Human rights group Liberty has already condemned the idea
as a 'frightening scenario'.
A spokesman said recently: "Once a national data base
is set up there will be endless other uses for it."
DNA testing was first used to catch a criminal in 1987.
Scotland Yard used mass testing of 4,000 men to arrest
Colin Pitchfork, a 25-year-old baker in the sexual assaults and strangulations
of two 15-year-old girls in Narborough, Leicestershire.
DNA was developed as an identification technique by British
scientist Alex Jeffries at the University of Leicester.
In the US, FBI has had a national DNA database since October
1998, which allows police agencies to compare their evidence with convicted
offenders in 42 states. The database has so far assisted with more than
4,900 criminal investigations.
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