Court condemns Britain for retaining innocents’ DNA

AFP
Thursday, December4, 2008

The European human rights court condemned Britain Thursday for not destroying DNA samples of two people found innocent of offences of which they were accused, including an 11-year-old boy.

In a unanimous Grand Chamber judgement the court said the right to the private and family life of the plaintiffs had been violated.

The 11-year-old had been acquitted of theft, while prosecutors dropped the case against a man of 38 accused of harassing his partner three months after he was charged.

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Authorities refused their demand to have their DNA samples and fingerprints destroyed.

In a swift reaction Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said she was “disappointed” with the Strasbourg ruling, adding that the existing law would remain while ministers considered the judgement.

“DNA and fingerprinting is vital to the fight against crime, providing the police with more than 3,500 matches a month, and I am disappointed by the European Court of Human Rights’ decision,” she said.

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4 Responses to “Court condemns Britain for retaining innocents’ DNA”

1. vein Says:
   December 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

   This is a mind-blowing ruling, and would be a major set-back for Blair, if he didn’t turn these minor victories against him into new opportunities. Expect a series of very heinous crimes to be ’solved’ using the DNA collected from as yet ‘innocent’ people to magically hit the presses.

   I should point out that the last time the Court of Human Rights ruled in such a clear way against the scum that rule Britain, the practise of sado-masochistic rape (corporal punishment) carried out against endless thousands of unwilling under-age victims in British schools, was abolished.

   I would point out to you yanks that pedophiles with a spanking fetish are given free reign to indulge their sexual desires against american children in tens of thousands of american schools at this present time. Of course, given America can execute children and the mentally ill, no-one here is surprised in the least. The filthy twisted scum that allow such child abuse are those judges found in your Supreme Court. Unlike the UK, you americans allow no higher authority to pass legal judgement.

   However, Blair has moved most Human Rights activity into local UK courts, where his corrupt judges rule, as with the USA. In theory, this ruling by the European human rights court should have been un-needed, since the complainants should have received the same justice from the courts in the UK. Blair will have to explain over the next few days why the UK courts failed to give the same ruling.

2. Joe Says:
   December 5th, 2008 at 1:13 am

   It seems that the EU is still good for something. Take that!
   The home secretray said: “that the existing law would remain while ministers considered the judgement”. Don’t you understand? EU law has become British law so you have to accept the verdict of the EU court. One major blow for neo-fascist government in Britain.

3. luke Says:
   December 5th, 2008 at 2:38 am

   How can any government even argue their case, or want to keep the dna of innocent citizens. They are extremely deluded and still like to tell us how lucky we are to have democracy, never freedom or liberty here in Britain. Most probobly 95% of the public would agree this goes against every natural law that could be considered an axiom. I am one of those people who has thier dna illegally held, arrested but never charged or taken to court. And i do worry about what the authorities use it for, Is it sold to genetic engineering companies? Can they take parts they want and replicate them? Have i given permission?
   The sooner my dna is wiped from their records the better, many thanks to the brave men who took up this case and have brought us a modicum of liberty into our authoritarian lives, thankyou.

4. Keelia Says:
   December 5th, 2008 at 5:49 am

   Get Jacqui (bloody) Smith outta here! That woman is evil, evil, evil! I….I…..well, words just fail me. the first time I ever saw her name in the paper I was angry!