To: Electronic Telegraph <et.letters@telegraph.co.uk>
Re: The need for a comprehensive DNA databank
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 
   
 
Dear Sir/Madam,

Your most recent report on the "partners in rape" case highlights the need for the establishment of a DNA databank for all citizens ('Wicked' sex killer may have many more victims, 2 February 2001).

I appreciate that it will not be politically possible, or even desirable, to force everyone to provide a sample of their DNA, but what I suggest the government do, is to establish a "voluntary" DNA database for those who, like myself, wish to do all they possibly can to solve and - more importantly - prevent such horrific crimes from occurring. 

If a comprehensive DNA databank had been in existence, David Mulcahy and John Duffy would both have been caught and sent to prison after their first rape, and with the certainty of being caught, they would not have dared commit another. As it is, they were free to produce a long, horrific trail of incomprehensible suffering, murder and devastated lives.