John Manlove BA MSc DIC PhD RFP FFSSoc
John's background is in forensic biology and as a pioneer of forensic ecology. He reports on all aspects of DNA profiling, Forensic Biology, Blood Pattern Analysis and Forensic Entomology. He is involved in the training of crime scene personnel and has been lead scientist in major cases that have covered over a dozen evidence types. John has worked overseas a number of major enquiries in addition to casework commitments in the UK.
Kathy Manlove BSc MSc MFSSoc
Kathy has worked for the Forensic Science Service and Forensic Alliance in DNA and body fluids, and marks and traces disciplines, primarily on Serious Crime and Anti-terrorist cases. She continues to provide expert opinion and attend crime scenes using expertise in contact trace evidence, mark comparison, chemical enhancement of marks and footwear tracking.
Sue Black OBE DSc
Professor Sue Black is the Director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification. She has over 25 years of experience in the national and international field of forensic anthropology and human identification, and has given evidence in criminal and Coroner's courts in the United Kingdom, Europe, and USA. In her professional capacity as a forensic anthropologist and in matters pertaining to human identity, she has assisted the British Government, various European and Foreign Governments, national and international police forces, military investigators, the United Nations and the FBI. She was a speciality assessor for forensic anthropology and a registered practitioner with the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. She is the President and a founder member of the British Association for Human Identification (BAHID) and a registered expert with the National Policing Improvements Agency. She was awarded an OBE in February of 2002 for services to Forensic Anthropology in Kosovo. She is the author of 8 academic text books, 12 chapters in other texts and over 60 peer reviewed communications all in the field of forensic anthropology and human identification.
Professor John Hunter BA, PhD, FSA, MIFA, FFSSoc
Apart from following an extensive scheme of archaeological research excavation and survey in Scotland, John Hunter began to develop forensic archaeology in 1988. He has written nine books, including the first textbook on the subject and has undertaken research and routinely lectured to police and forensic groups ever since. He helped found the Forensic Search Advisory Group, was a lead assessor for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (CRFP), and a member of CRFP's Incident Investigation panel. Operationally he works actively on police cases, including defence and cold case reviews, as well as war crime missions throughout the world, notably in the Falklands, the Balkans and Iraq.
He has recently been appointed a Royal Commissioner on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and has co-authored a new book on forensic archaeology. He was appointed Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Birmingham in 1996.
Barrie Simpson, BA (Hons) MSc MSc CertED MFSSoc
A forensic archaeologist with a further Masters Degree in forensic and biological anthropology. He has a wide experience of crime scenes, both within the UK and abroad, and further forensic experience in dealing with the aftermath of major natural disasters. He has given evidence in both the Crown Court and Coroner's Courts in the UK. As a forensic archaeologist he has assisted the British Government, the United Nations, UK police forces and the military; and also undertaken forensic missions with internationally recognised institutions such as the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) and Kenyon International Emergency Services.
An active member the Forensic Search Advisory Group (FSAG) which provides advice and assistance to UK Police forces in search, location and recovery of buried human remains and objects and Council member of the British Association for Human Identification (BAHID).
A registered Expert Advisor (EA) with the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA); a professional member of the Forensic Science Society (MFSSoc); and was one the first forensic archaeologists to be registered as forensic practitioner with the former Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (CRFP).
A qualified teacher and currently a Honorary Research Fellow in Forensic Archaeology in the Institute for Archaeology and Antiquity at the University of Birmingham, working with his close colleague and fellow Manlove Forensics colleague, Professor John Hunter. Together they have organised training courses in forensic archaeology for police and military investigators and provide training inputs to Manlove Forensics courses.
Anna Sandiford BSc PhD MFSSoc
Dr Sandiford has worked as an independent forensic science consultant since 1998. She works with Manlove Forensics as a Forensic Palynologist (pollen expert). Her research background is in geology, palynology and geochemistry and she continues her research in forensic palynology with a top forensic microfossil expert. She also has significant expertise in marks/impressions, glass, drugs, drug traces and alcohol-related casework. She is a company director based in New Zealand, which is one of the main countries leading forensic palynology.
Louise Scheuer BSc PhD RFP
Professor Louise Scheuer is a human anatomist with special interest in the morphology and development of the juvenile skeleton. She is the present President of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists She has worked in the field of Forensic Anthropology for over thirty years and has given evidence on human identification in coroners and criminal courts in the UK. She was a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth team investigating war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 and assisted with identification in the London tube bombings in July 2005. She was Specialist and then Lead assessor in Forensic Anthropology, a member of the Registration and Assessment Working Group and the Board of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners. She is the author of three textbooks on the morphology and development of the juvenile skeleton and has written numerous chapters in edited books and scientific papers on forensic anthropology and human identification.
Derek Tremain BSc
Mr Tremain holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in science (1998). Between 1977 and 1999 he was employed by the Department of Forensic Medicine, Guy's Hospital Medical School firstly as a Senior Laboratory Scientific Officer and then promoted to Chief Scientific Officer. In 1999 he set up his own company which produces body mapping in 2D and 3D at the request of Judges, Barristers, CPS Case Workers, Murder, Investigation Teams within the Police Force nationwide and at the request of the Forensic Pathologist, weapon and wound overlay and animation of patterned injuries (in excess of 500 cases). From 2001 he has also worked as a Consultant with the National Injuries Database based at the NPIA at Wyboston Lakes. He is involved on a weekly basis in case analysis and discussion within specialist meeting, enhancement of the Database programme and advising on patterned injury and wounding. His technological expertise includes histology, diatomology, research into seminal staining, national injuries database, weapon and wound overlay and forensic graphic design.
Diatomology is one of his special areas of interest and expertise, he held the position of Chief Scientific Officer at Guy's Hospital Medical School, London for thirty-five years and, during that time, performed investigations for diatoms in several hundred cases. Many such samples came from the human organs of drowned individuals taken from the River Thames, and involved murders and suspicious deaths, in addition to suicides and accidental deaths. This facilitated a very thorough and extensive grounding in the numerous types of diatoms found in various circumstances and conditions, including freshwater (rivers, lakes), brackish water (tidal water - freshwater and seawater as found in estuaries and as far as London Bridge) and seawater samples. During his career, he also became a member of a specialist Diatomology Group of scientists, who regularly met to discuss the technical methods and standards used in the detection of diatoms in human organs, in order to advance the methodology and excellence of the discipline.
Dr W Meier-Augenstein, CChem, FRSC
Wolfram Meier-Augenstein is a Senior Lecturer in Stable Isotope Forensics at the Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification at the University of Dundee. He is also the Principal Isotope Scientist at the Scottish Crop Research Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a member of the British Mass Spectrometry Society. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of stable isotope technology at natural abundance level as well as at tracer lever for biomedical applications and has made contributions to instrument design as well as to several textbooks on the subject of stable isotope analytical techniques including their use in forensics. Dr Meier-Augenstein has assisted various police forces in murder enquiries with provision of forensic intelligence on human provenance based on Stable Isotope Profiles or ‘Signatures' to aid victim identification. Apart from the stable isotope analysis of human tissue he is also engaged in the stable isotope analysis of drugs and explosives. He is an executive member of the Forensic Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (FIRMS) steering group, an organisation with international membership involved in quality control and quality assurance of stable isotope data generated for and used in a forensic context. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the forensic science journal Science & Justice and of the scientific journal Bioanalysis.
Geoff Arnold RFP MAE PGCert MFSSoc
After active service with the British Army, Geoff joined the Metropolitan Police with whom he served for the next 26 years investigating all levels of crime from homicide and armed crime to street crime. He was attached to their Tactical Firearms Unit and worked within the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Group. During terrorist campaigns he worked with the explosion detection unit. In his time as a serving Police Officer Geoff also worked within the Police Forensic Laboratory as a forensic firearms expert.
After his retirement from the Metropolitan Police, Geoff remained within their service as a civilian. He was the Firearms Clearing House Manager within the forensic laboratory and worked on cases involving firearms and toolmarks. He was also an examiner using Integrated Ballistic Identification System (IBIS 3D) and comparison macroscopy to facilitate comparisons. Mr Arnold also evaluated, tested and incorporated IBIS into the National Ballistic Intelligence System (NABIS).
In 2007 Mr Arnold moved to Key Forensic Services Ltd working as a reporting manager in cases involving firearms and toolmarks where he undertook numerous examinations, giving evidence on numerous occasions.
Mr Arnold moved to Manlove Forensics in 2009 where he runs the Firearms and weapons facility. He is responsible for all firearms and weapons related casework that passes through the laboratory.
Geoff is extremely highly trained and qualified in all areas of firearms and weapons science including laboratory, scene and Post Mortem work, training and the provision of expert testimony.
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