British police have solved a 58-year-old rape and murder cold case, convicting a 92-year-old man in the killing of ...

Failures in the forensic services threaten to compromise the UK criminal-justice system, a parliamentary report warns. UK government failures over forensic science are leading to fragmentation, ...

Tim J Wilson receives funding from NordForsk, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and ESRC. His work has been previously funded by the European Commission and the UK Government.

If the shoe fits - Britain's world-leading forensic criminal scientists will rapidly know who to pin it on. Adam Luck reports on the extraordinary laboratories that convict the guilty and acquit the ...

Locate International, founded by a retired detective, has one ultimate goal: to investigate every cold case in the UK Despite international appeals for help, the identity of the young woman killed on ...

Crime-solving forensic scientist ‘humbled’ by damehood - Professor Lorna Dawson is head of the Centre for Forensic Soil ...

Immediately after death, a body emits chemicals which rapidly attract insects At the top of a long staircase in a room in a tower, far away from the throng of visitors and other scientists and ...

FLASHY TV shows, true-crime podcasts and a growing interest in cracking cold cases might have you believing that forensic science has all the answers when it comes to solving difficult crimes. But ...

An 1860s special pillar box in Liverpool, a 1930s K4 telephone-post box in Whitley Bay and an 1850s octagonal pillar box in Sherborne (l-r) Forensic tags and electronic tracking are among proposals ...

The Commons science committee has said it is to hold an inquiry into the closure of the UK government-owned Forensic Science Service (FSS). On 14 December, the government said the service would be ...

DNA varies between and within species, and so it can be used in forensic work when biological material is associated with a crime or other legal case. Forensic DNA analysis began in 1985 with the ...

Forensic psychologist, campaigner and author Kerry Daynes has spent more than twenty years delving into the psyche of the UK’s most complex and challenging prisoners. Here she shares what she’s ...