Mr Peter Swann
FAE FFS MCSFS
Fingerprint Consultant
Mr Peter Swann has been engaged in all aspects of fingerprint and crime scene work for five decades. His knowledge and experience result from his working in and leadership of a large fingerprint department where he was responsible for all crime scene examinations, latent fingerprint development and identifications as well as from his advisory and research role at the Home Office, a post he held for three years.
Mr Swann is an authority on fingerprint legislation, standards of evidence and development techniques. He also maintains a reference library of fingerprint works and technical publications. He has prepared and given expert evidence in many hundreds of cases, both at home and overseas, having been instructed by the judiciary in Australia, Eire, Europe, Middle East, Far East and the USA to examine and report on cases in their courts.
He has been involved in many high-profile cases including the murder of Police Constable Keith Blakelock (London) 1985, the Marchioness/Bowbelle Disaster Inquiry (London) 1989, The Perth Mint Case, Western Australia 1998, McNamee Appeal (London) 1999 and Peter Kenneth Smith Appeal, (London) 2011. More recently he was a Core Participant in the Fingerprint Inquiry Scotland (1998 onwards). He has given expert evidence in all types of proceedings and has been instructed on several occasions by the Criminal Cases Review Commission.
Mr Swann now provides a full independent fingerprint service to the legal profession, industry and other agencies. All fees are in accordance with those laid down by the Legal Services Commission and from the date of examination, reports are usually prepared within the week.
He is an Accredited Expert and Fellow of the Academy of Experts, a Fellow of the Fingerprint Society, a Member of the International Association for Identification and a Member of its European Division, a Member of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences and is listed in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses.
Mr Swann can take instructions on behalf of either claimant or defendant or as a Single Joint Expert.
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