Recent content by MelmothTheLost

Boeing again - albeit apparently the first serious incident involving a dreamliner. Of course the cause of the crash may turn out to be nothing to do with the plane itself, but at this stage one feels obliged to do a chinny-reckon.

I'm not sure that that is correct. The only companies which currently allow LE to access their databases are GEDmatch and Family Tree DNA, and only then if the member explicitly opts in to LE accessing their matches.

This thread has been quiet for a week or two but there is an article in today's Mail claiming that Brits are being specifically target as drug mule. Of the cases they discuss, the only one I would consider "vulnerable" is that of 79 year old William Easement whose age suggests he could be...

I doubt it. I may be cynical, but too many Met cops have turned this into an annual jolly in the sun for them to give it up without a fight.

It's not as simple as that. A team at Locate has been working on Wembley Point Woman for a year or more and (IIRC) she was the subject of a huge media push a few months ago by our media team. If it's the case I'm thinking of, it actually got a lot of take-up by local news sheets and other media...

We have an update on 23andMe - it and all its customer data has been bought by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, an East Coast US company developing new drug treatments for various conditions. Obviously this keeps it out of the hands of the Chinese, but it's unclear what options users have to have...

He'd better make sure it's accurate or he faces being the first Pope to be charged with tax fraud.

It's worth flagging up Professor Thaddeus Pope's blog on medical futility cases where he has several posts about the case. His view is that there is nothing in Georgia state law which requires Adriana to be attached to machines for the remainder of her pregnancy. This may well trigger quite a...

This woman is not being "kept alive". She is brain dead, which is generally accepted as definitive except in some US states. I would classify this as abuse of a corpse and prevention of lawful burial. Indeed.

This case has been the subject of a lengthy and horrified discussion on a well-known UK social media site, Mumsnet. I cannot believe it won't lead to a further reduction in tourism from the UK, especially when you consider that much of that tourism involves women of child-bearing age, some of...

Because they regard children as property that they can dispose of as and when they want.

Of course the UK can't extradite her. The crime was committed in Sri Lanka. People are only extradited to countries in which crimes have taken place.

Of course, but there's evidence that young British women are currently being disproportionally targeted.

I think what would help is for passports to be automatically flagged for young women, say under the age of 25 or 30, travelling to or through specific countries known to be sources of drug smuggling. Obviously the vast majority of such women will be entirely innocent but the data might help to...

One to two months' rent. The cheapest rental is going to be £1,500 per month, and most are going to be over £2,000 or £2,500.