Quickly looking at the link it says the two hairs were always controversial.
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“At the heart of Watson's application was the reliability of two hairs police say were found on his yacht, which were likely to have come from Hope. However the discovery and testing of these two hairs, has always been extremely controversial”
Where do you figure in this, Bob? And why did you spend 10 years on it all for free?
Did he win his appeal?
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Was the Scott Watson case in any way like the Bamber case? In a way, it was the local police didn't have the manpower to handle a major investigation so they handed it to the Christchurch police.
Like the London police getting involved with the Bamber case.
I got hold of the police file and I was able to cross-reference some 10,000 files (it was all on one CD) and after 10 years of cross-checking each and every person I figured out a possible solution.
I find with the Bamber case there are very few records released and those that are, aren't computerised and very hard to read in many cases.
In the file, the detective that went to collect hairs (comparative samples from Olivia Hope's house) said in his statement how many hairs he picked up, he said "between 5 and 50".
I thought that was poor. The bag that contained the hair had a slit in it and the hairs were examined on the same table as the blanket. There was a strong possibility the hairs had got there from the bag with the slit.
None of the hairs were able to be tested nuclear DNA but just mitochondrial DNA. Thousands of people will have the same Mitochondrial DNA profile.
Same sort of thing as the blood grouping in the silencer (Bamber case) Sheila and Robert Boutflour had identical blood results.
Why did I do it for free? Well, it was part-time then, I was working and that analysis was done in the evenings.
Often I would travel to the Sounds to be fully familiar with the area and to meet the people mentioned in the books written about the case. I stayed at the Watson's house, on one night and even slept in the bed they said Scott would normally sleep in.
As I said earlier to the forum it was a request from the Lord Jesus that I investigate the Scott Watson case. "Go help Scott for is being convicted of a crime he did not do." I was told this twice and only after 2 years delay did I begin the investigation.