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If the Hussain family have passports those need to be confiscated as a matter of urgency to stop them fleeing the country.

It's highly unlikely the ring was his mother's. Gold and silver jewellery in the UK is hallmarked with stamped marks which provide precise information about the maker, the purity of the metal, where it was assayed (tested for metal purity) and (usually but not always) the year in which it was...

Man accused of raping two-week-old baby 'is on 24-hour guard behind bars to stop prisoners attacking him' Man accused of raping two-week-old baby is on 24-hour guard behind bars | Daily Mail Online

With that many people in such a confined space it would take only one not wearing a seatbelt to create a massive hazard to everyone else. I'm guessing very few, if any, in the back of the vehicle were wearing a belt so the bodies have probably been churned around somewhat. Sorry to be graphic.

Yes, of course it does, but in any age LE can really only try not to contaminate evidence it knows about. Before about 1900 the police did not know about the value of fingerprints as evidence so couldn't have given any thought to preserving them. Who knows if there is something we don't yet know...

It would be great if this was the killer's DNA but it's just as likely it came from one of the people who attended the crime scene afterwards. Back in 1979 there was no DNA for forensic purposes so no thought could have been given to avoiding contamination. If the DNA was found on her socks, the...

He's going to have a fun time in prison ....

I dare say the world is [ball-]gagging for better sex toys. :p

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As a Brit I'm surprised at how quickly victims of crimes or unexplained deaths are buried in the US. Here the body can be kept in cold storage for months, certainly in cases of murder or suspicious deaths.

Anyone else feel uneasy about the head of the global police liaison body being a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party? Truly the fox is in charge of the henhouse.

So a violent criminal cannot be named in the press? Does this mean his full name does not appear in the court records? Even so we can draw conclusions to some extent since Firas is an Arabic name.

Especially the ones speculating he might have said or meant commune rather than convent.

Just a thought - it's possible that this man's twisted neck affected his breathing, so maybe it could have contributed to a hypothetical death by suffocation. Combined with the bindings that does sound like a real possibility.

The lack of obvious trauma + bindings + the previous suggestion that some sort of erotic activity was involved raises the possibility that this could have been an accidental suffocation during sexual activity. BDSM gone awry. Yes, that's interesting. I'd assumed it was a permanent feature, a...

Scratch them off the list then :) I do think we're looking for a local marriage though. The purchase of a wedding ring made in the UK and the socks being sold very locally makes that a reasonable assumption I think.

I had a poke around in the BMDs for Burton for the relevant period and this marriage jumped out at me: Marriages Sep 1968 AJKOWSKA LEOKADIA DEMBSKI BURTON 9B 213 DEMBSKI WLADYSLAW AJKOWSKA BURTON 9B 213 What is interesting is that there is no birth record for Wladyslaw Dembski...

Just a thought - I wonder if the police questioned marriage registrars in Burton RD and the surrounding districts for our man. Again, he should have been fairly memorable and the window of time is fairly short. If he was married locally, he might have been remembered.

Some interesting points here. Firstly, do we think there is any significance to the ring being 9ct gold rather than 22ct or 18ct? Might this tell us anything about the UID's economic situation? Secondly, were all of the rings produced for one large retailer or distributed to any number of...

The obvious argument against that is that there is DNA on file for this body. That should mean that the sex is beyond reasonable doubt. It would also be worth looking into what immigration from central and eastern Europe had taken place in Staffs. Communities of immigrants appear in some very...