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A storm broke last night over police plans to check the fingerprints of boys and girls as young as twelve in the hunt for a murderer.
It has proved impossible to eliminate by normal means palm and fingerprints found in the flat.
They say they will see that the police assurance that fingerprints will be destroyed is carried out.
With children under 14, the police cannot take fingerprints unless they are volunteered.
Confiscated materials should be returned quickly, where no charge is brought or national security involved, as fingerprints and DNA samples now are.
The ContactPoint database, designed to hold information on all children under 18, will be scrapped and schools "will not take children's fingerprints without even asking their parents' consent".
Officially, the police are entitled to ask anyone for their fingerprints but in the case of juveniles the parents have to be asked first.
At least 10 sets of fingerprints found at the bomb factories have never been identified.
Experts from the Forensic Science Service (FSS) are currently analysing swabs for DNA, fingerprints, hair or fibres from the two bodies.
Over Christmas a burglar in Warrington was caught after forensics found his fingerprints on a bottle.
Most days they travel out in convoys of brown armored trucks, posting letters at night in the villages to assure the local Afghans they are there to protect them, collecting fingerprints from would-be mine planters, resolving tribal disputes, meeting elders and trying to gain their trust so the villagers will pass on information when the fighting season begins in earnest.
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