Collection and Preservation of Evidence

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My team members and I received information that a man called Bob Butcher, the chairman of the ‘England for the English’ movement was planning to cause disruption at the official opening of a new Mosque in Ealing on the 19th of April 2014. Bob is a well-known man to the police, he has a number of convictions for serious assault. Ted Towser who was recently Bob Butcher’s number two approached me and told me that Bob was up to something ‘serious’ and wants nothing to do with it and he was willing to give further information about Bob’s plans. On the 14th of April I was told that Ted was found lying in the street at 3am that morning and was unconscious in hospital, having been seriously assaulted, he had what looked like handcuff burns on his wrist, deep lacerations on his back that looked like knife injuries and he had been shot in both knees. Bob had disappeared and was believed to be trying to leave the country using a network of links sympathetic to his movement. On the 14th of April 2014 at 14:06pm I and my team members carried out a crime scene investigation in Bob’s garage which required us to recover evidential items of potential forensic importance from a crime scene and submit them to the laboratory for further analysis. These Forensic analyses of the items of physical evidence may have provided answers to a number of important questions. The effective recovery of the items of physical evidence is crucial to the success of the subsequent inquiry. The following items were recovered during the investigation: Date/Time Seized Bag No Exhibit No Description 14/4/14 1420 TWS0102 EA/1 One (1)Black trousers 14/4/14 1423 S00640994 EA/2 Two (2) Shell casings 14/4/14 1428 S00640995 EA/3 One (1) ALDEASA Receipt 14... ... middle of paper ... ...ll I think I and my team did okay as we did recover some crucial evidence and tried to work well as a team however as explained above there are no room for errors when it comes to providing evidence at court. References Exploreforensics.co.uk, (2014). Ballistics: The Use and Study of Firearms. [online] Available at: http://www.exploreforensics.co.uk/ballistics-theuse-and-study-of-firearms.html [Accessed 14 May. 2014]. Forensicsciencecentral.co.uk, (2014). Forensic Science Central Trace Evidence. [online] Available at: http://forensicsciencecentral.co.uk/traceevidence.shtml [Accessed 14 May. 2014]. Iape.org, (2014). BIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE. [online] Available at: http://www.iape.org/emanual/biological_evidence.htm [Accessed 14 May. 2014]. Jackson, A. and Jackson, J. (2004). Forensic science. 1st ed. Harlow, England: Pearson Prentice Hall, pg. 61.

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