DNA - Domestic, Not Abroad

Yes, of course the retention of entirely innocent people's DNA is scandalous. (Such testing is now known to have a one in a hundred error rate, anyway; so no one can be convicted beyond reasonable doubt by reference to it alone, as previously assumed.)

But, as with the ruling against conviction on anonymous evidence alone, we do not need a foreign court or a foreign charter to tell us so.

We know this - or, at least, we should know this - from our own Common Law.

To which we must return.

As we must return to proper preventative policing on foot, and to proper sentencing, so that no one any longer feels the need for this sort of thing.