Lawyer sacked from £150,000 job after DNA is wrongly put on national database
The Daily Mail reports:
A high-flying city lawyer was fired from her £150,000-a-year job after a ‘routine security check’ revealed her DNA was held on the national database – over a ‘false allegation’ made against her.
Lorraine Elliott said that she felt ‘gobsmacked and depressed’ after bosses spotted her file during ‘background clearance’ checks as she was just about to start work on a new project.
The mother-of-three today described her reputation as having been ‘tainted’ after she was dismissed from her post following the discovery of her DNA profile – despite never having been charged with an offence.
And what did that new job involve?
Ms Elliott was just about to take up working on the government’s own national identity card scheme which required the routine checks to be made before she was ‘cleared’ for the role.
November 13th, 2009 at 15:12
Oh, the delicious irony!
I wonder if she’ll now have second thoughts about working on the project that forms the lynch-pin of the Database State?
November 13th, 2009 at 15:49
An excellent reason not to keep DNA data from people who haven’t been convicted … currently even volunteer data (provided for exclusion, for example) is kept on the database for ever!
November 13th, 2009 at 18:12
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November 14th, 2009 at 02:18
That’s odd. The link to the original Mail piece is blank and says…
Sorry…The page you have requested does not exist or is no longer available.
Hmmm.
November 14th, 2009 at 12:12
How nice it is to see the biter bit – or should that be ‘bitten’? Either way, it brought a smile to me.
Sic semper tyrannis!
November 14th, 2009 at 14:03
Strangely the story has been removed from the Daily Mail site,
November 16th, 2009 at 08:36
The Mail’s piece has indeed been pulled, and the Daily Telegraph carries a slightly different story which points the finger at the Ms Elliott’s arrest record on the PNC rather than her record on the DNA database:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/6563877/City-lawyer-fired-after-police-kept-record-of-her-innocent-arrest.html
November 18th, 2009 at 00:05
As a lawyer apposed to the surveillance state I have feared for a long time that the mere presence of persons DNA will lead people to be suspicious of the subject. Even DNA of children taken voluntarily & with a parents consent at an early age will be affected
The assumption will be ‘no smoke without fire’ & guilty until proven innocent
November 18th, 2009 at 00:22
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