... the man was “without much social contact”.
Well to be honest, it's not a good trait for attracting partners if you set fire to place after you just had some intimate relations with them.
Burning desire helped us collar arson suspect, claim Danish cops
A Danish man being tried for arson offences might have not have been nabbed by cops if he hadn’t stopped for a five-knuckle shuffle in public, a police spokesman told a local TV crew. The unnamed 41-year-old suspect was arrested in February and charged with 14 counts of fire-starting in Odense, the third largest city in the …
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Wednesday 7th December 2016 17:47 GMT DNTP
Re: Meta-Human Super power ?
I have this exact power, only replace "DNA" with "T-butyl Lithium" and "buildings" with "my lab bench".
Note 1: I have a deliberately fire-retardant labwork coat, purchased with my own money because it seemed like a good investment,
Note 2: The way to tell if the stuff is still good is when
the little bit on the end of the transfer needle catches on fireyou get a chemistry boner from handling it.
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Thursday 8th December 2016 03:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Do the Danish plods have a DNA DB or everyone?
Danes?
Ah, you're referring to the Prüm extensions of the Schengen database, apparently!
The Prüm Convention is a treaty which was signed on 27 May 2005 ....Transnational DNA Profile exchange or ' Schengen III'
According to open source Wikipedia and the British journal of Criminology http://www.bjc.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/6/1117.abstract
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Wednesday 7th December 2016 19:07 GMT Kernel
Hardly conclusive
"........ his colleagues were confident they’d found their man because the arson incidents stopped after he was cuffed."
Sorry guys, but you'll need a little more than that if I'm on the jury.
Maybe the suspect does get a boner from watching fires, but unless they actually found his DNA at multiple fire scenes it's not beyond reasonable doubt that the actual arsonist got run over by a bus after this man was arrested, hence the coincidental cessation of arson attacks.
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Wednesday 7th December 2016 19:43 GMT Stevie
Re: Hardly conclusive
The reasonable doubt has to be about the bloke accused, not some nebulous third party you made up to play devil's advocate.
In order for this doubt to be "reasonable" you'd have to demonstrate that the other bloke, the one run down by a bus, actually existed. As in a corpse, preferably smelling of smoke, lying in a morgue in Odense. Without that your doubt could be called unreasonable by the prosecutor.
Absent national news coverage about Mr Fist von Offderwrist, the lack of new deliberately-set fires is persuasive, if circumstantial.
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Wednesday 7th December 2016 22:23 GMT Kernel
Re: Hardly conclusive
No, it's not persuasive at all - they found evidence of his presence 'in the locale' of two fires - not at the actual site of two fires.
Circumstantial evidence is useful as corroboration, but it's very rare that it can convict on its own.
It's not up to the prosecutor to determine if my doubt is reasonable or not either - that is for me to determine. The last time I was called for jury service was about a week after a detective had admitted to a judge that he had given false evidence in a number of cases to obtain a conviction - my statement that I felt all evidence put forward by the police would be subject of 'reasonable doubt' after reading about this in the national newspapers was sufficient for me to be excused.
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Thursday 8th December 2016 17:44 GMT Stevie
Re: Hardly conclusive
So you know how to dodge jury duty by exaggerating your paranoia into "reasonable doubt".
I know one foreign consultant who is an incompetent lying bumbler. Should I assume all foreign consultants are fit only to be shipped "back where they came from" or is that unreasonable of me?
And by being rejected as a juror you proved conclusively that part of that prosecutor's job was indeed to judge your doubts as unreasonable.
The lack of persuasiveness you are citing is from reports in a newspaper, not statements in evidence. No-one has been sworn in before speaking. No doubt forensic evidence will be offered to back up the contention that Sir Wanksalot is guilty of arson.
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