Melanie McDonagh Melanie McDonagh

Take my DNA, please

How I learned to stop worrying and love the police database

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What are the chances, do you reckon, of my finding a taker for my DNA? I’d like to make the offer on account of the forthcoming (Protection of) Freedoms Bill, which promises to make the police drop the DNA details of roughly a million people from the national database who have never been found guilty of an offence.

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