Fingerprints on Trial

This BBC Radio 4 programme - Fingerprints on Trial - provides interesting background to Sally Howkins' Law, Probability and Risk, currently on show in Off The Hook, Exeter.

You can hear it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/z5zyc/

"After a century in which it has been accepted as the Gold Standard for forensic evidence, Claudia Hammond investigates the growing body of research that challenges the infallibility of fingerprint evidence. She talks to critics who claim the UK has been slow to accept the urgent need for change. She hears about the Shirley Mckie case in Scotland, where a young detective was wrongly accused of leaving her prints at a crime scene and looks ahead to the forthcoming Scottish Fingerprint Inquiry."