Unlocking the evidence: How police try to ‘hack’ phones seized in murder cases

Somewhere within the Metropolitan Police there is a laboratory full of mobile phones gathered during criminal investigations. Some of those phones were taken from murder suspects. Others belonged to murder victims. They all have one thing in common: they might contain crucial information that could help solve a crime. The… You must be a paid …

CSI London: Bugs and Bodies

When the body of Leah Questin was found in a suitcase on farmland in Kent in September 2009, Metropolitan Police officers investigating her murder took a tip from CSI’s Gil Grissom and his fascination for bugs. The activity of Blowflies and their eggs at the site of the corpse was crucial in working out approximately …