Crime
Irredeemably Flawed: The IPP prisoner scandal, and the death of Matthew Price
Matthew had been free from prison for almost 10 years, when the hopelessness of his situation led him to take his own life – another victim of the IPP prisoner scandal
The writing’s been on the wall for decades, but still the graphology persists
During coverage of the trial of Lucy Letby, we didn't need to hear from graphologists - the pseudoscience of deriving psychological insights from someone's handwriting
Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo isn’t dead… but the credibility of Twitter ads might well be
Twitter accepted payment to promote tweets falsely claiming celebrity deaths, linking to scam sites impersonating national newspapers to push cryptocurrency scams
Fictional impressions: the shaky foundations of many common forensic science techniques
TV crime shows have made us all very aware of forensic analysis of hair, DNA samples and fingerprints - but do we overstate its usefulness?
The online circus around Nicola Bulley’s death shows what harm armchair detectives can do
The disappearance of Nicola Bulley saw armchair detectives, primed by a love of true crime and an over-abundance of confidence, flood the internet with uninformed and harmful speculation
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