An independent forensic science consultant providing expert witness services in crimes involving biological evidence such as DNA profiling and bloodstain pattern analysis has referred to comments posted on the official Jeremy Bamber website as
gibberish! Forensics expert Mark Webster has just recently launched his website stating that he was involved in testing the sound moderator involved in the Jeremy Bamber case from 1993 until 2002.
He writes that >
An "official website for Jeremy Bamber" has suggested that animal blood may have been confused with human blood:
The statement "The blood flake was analyzed and found to contain the AK1 enzyme therefore it came from someone with blood group A." is gibberish. A person's AK type does not predict that person's ABO group.
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Mr Bamber's supporters have misunderstood the DNA profiling evidence considered by Appeal Court Judges in 2002. They write "The sound moderator retained by Essex Police was DNA tested by forensic experts working for the CCRC. In 2001 these tests revealed both male and female DNA to be present on the internal baffle plates. The female DNA was ruled not to have come from Sheila."
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Mr Bamber's supporters have a view on my role in the Appeal and predict the judgment that would have been given if I had not given evidence!
"Mr Webster's evidence completely undermined the Defence argument that Sheila's blood had never been on the sound moderators baffle plates, and accordingly the appeal judges dismissed this ground of appeal based upon Mr Webster's evidence. Ironically had Jeremy's Defence lawyers not called Mr Webster to give evidence then the appeal judges would have accepted the evidence given by the prosecutions forensic experts and the appeal against conviction would have been granted."Read more
here.Just to clarify the position as exits at this moment in time.
DNA. Seventeen of the twenty bands attributable to Sheila Caffell were detected in DNA from the internal swabbings of the sound moderator. Random chance would have suggested thirteen common bands of DNA would be found and hence since there was significantly more than thirteen, it provided much support for the DNA of Sheila Caffell being in the moderator.
NB. It is not known if this DNA came from blood although it is most likely since blood matching Sheila Caffell's blood group was extracted from the sound moderator in 1985.