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Profiles
Andrew Bernard WADE BSc MSc MAE FFSSoc
Bachelor of Science (BSc 2:2 Hons) in Applied Chemistry and a Master of Science (MSc) in Crystallography. Andrew was a Registered Forensic Practitioner (RFP) and Speciality Assessor with The Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (CRFP) before its demise in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Forensic Science Society.
He has been employed as a forensic scientist since 1979 both in the public and private service. Andrew joined the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory (now the Forensic Science Service, London) in the chemistry section where he reported on numerous cases as a court going officer. In 1989 he transferred internally to the specialist Fire Investigation Unit. He resigned from the FSS in 1996 and took a post with West Yorkshire Police as a Forensic Science Manager. He is now engaged as an independent forensic scientist, with First Forensic Limited, where he has accepted commissions from police forces, lawyers, corporate and private clients.
Andrew has specialised in fire and explosion investigation during this time and has visited in excess of one thousand fire scenes and other incidents as required. These have included several high profile and sensitive cases such as the 1992 fire at Windsor Castle and the examination of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in terrorist and other criminal cases.
His other areas of expertise include the examination and comparison of many types of materials including glass, paint, footwear marks, tyre marks, locks and toolmarks.
Andrew has presented expert evidence on over 200 occasions at courts of all levels; Crown, Magistrates, Youth, Coroners, County and Court Martial’s.
He has trained other forensic scientists, scenes of crime officers, police and fire brigade personnel in various aspects of forensic science. He also lectures in forensic science at Manchester and Staffordshire Universities, where he is an Honorary Fellow.
He is a member of the Academy of Experts (MAE), The International Association of Arson Investigators (IAAI), the British Association for Human Identification (BAHID) and the Forensic Science Society. Andrew is also listed with Sweet & Maxwell (formerly Law Society) and the National Police Improvement Agency as an accredited expert.
Karen Paula WADE BSc CChem CSci MRSC MFSSoc
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Pharmacology (Dual Hons) from the University of Sheffield. Karen is a Chartered Chemist, a Chartered Scientist and a professional Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Forensic Science Society.
Karen has been employed as a forensic scientist since 1992; being previously employed as a Higher Scientific Officer with the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory; at the Forensic Science Service, Wetherby, as a forensic scientist and team leader with Forensic Alliance Limited, Risley (now LGC Forensics) and she is now a director with First Forensic Limited, accepting commissions from police forces, lawyers, corporate and private clients. .
She has expertise in a range of forensic evidence types including fire and explosion investigation, liquid fire accelerants, footwear marks (including the chemical enhancement of footwear marks and footwear marks on bodies), glass, security dyes, drugs and other forensic chemistry evidence. Karen has many years experience in forensic analytical techniques such as Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, and Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography and the interpretation of analytical data. She has given expert evidence on a number of occasions.
She has been involved in the training of police, scenes of crime and laboratory personnel in various aspects of forensic work. She is also a lecturer in Forensic Investigation at Staffordshire University, involved in lecturing, practical support and Courtroom skills training on the BSc and MSc Forensic and Crime Science courses.
Dr John David TWIBELL BSc, PhD, CChem, MRSC
Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Chartered Chemist and a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an Affiliate of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers) and a member of the Forensic Science Society.
John has over 34 years experience as a Forensic Scientist, in both research and case working capacities, most of this with the Forensic Science Service (FSS). Over the period 1974 –2000, he was engaged in the scientific examination, testing and comparison of a wide variety of items covering a range of evidence types, and has visited numerous scenes of crime and other incidents to recover evidence and to interpret the findings. His main specialism was in the investigation of electrical matters such as electrical causes of fire, electrocution and murder or attempted murder by electrocution, etc.
After leaving the Forensic Science Service in November 2000 he entered private practise as a Forensic Consultant and also became a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Sciences at Anglia Polytechnic University (now renamed Anglia Ruskin University), Cambridge.
He has written numerous scientific publications in his specialist subject areas and has given many lectures at forensic science meetings in the UK and abroad. He wrote the Electricity and Fire chapter for a new UK book “Fire Investigation” (Edited by N NicDaeid, published in 2004 by Taylor and Francis/CFC).
David SCAYSBROOK BSC (Hons) CBiol MSB
David has a bachelor's degree in applied biology from the University of Salford and is a member of the Society of Biology. He was also a registered forensic practitioner with CRFP until it closed in 2009, and has been a practising forensic scientist for over 36 years.
David joined the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory (MPFSL, now the London laboratory of the Forensic Science Service) in 1974 as a biologist, examining body fluids and undertaking blood grouping. He was selected for a full time university scholarship and graduated in 1981, at the same time training in the examination and reporting of textile fibres. In 1986 he transferred internally to the Fire Investigation Unit, the first biologist to do so, where he was involved in helping to formulate the successful Metropolitan Police / London Fire Brigade liaison form. This form was later adopted by many police and fire services nationwide. When the MPFSL merged with the Forensic Science Service in 1996 he became a Specialist Adviser (serious crime) then moved back into biology work, retraining in DNA profiling techniques. After a period as a team leader he transferred to the FSS Chepstow Laboratory and continued his work in management, body fluids, DNA & fibres and became the laboratory's lead scientist for fire investigation. In 2010 he became an independent consultant.
David has attended many crime scenes as a fire investigator and to interpret biological evidence such as blood stain patterns. The work has involved murders, assaults, rapes and deliberate & accidental fires, those involving fatalities and many gas/vapour explosions. This and his work in the laboratory have led to numerous court attendances (for prosecution and defence) in the UK & abroad and has attracted a number of commendations.
David has undertaken critical laboratory reviews in Canada and the USA, and trained police officers, scenes of crime officers and others in various aspects of forensic science. David has also taken part in mentoring and coaching other scientists including new recruits in reporting and court presentation skills. He has also lectured at Cardiff University's centre for lifelong learning.
Philip GILHOOLEY FFS
Philip has been employed in the analysis, comparison, evaluation and identification of persons by means of the friction ridge detail on their fingers, thumbs, palms and soles of their feet for over forty four years and is a registered expert in this field.
He has successfully completed National training programmes leading to Advanced Fingerprint level and during his Police employment he was included on the Government and Police National Register of Fingerprint Experts (Registration number 326). Philip was registered with the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (Registration Number 0089) and was a lead Assessor for the Council and a member of the National Sector Investigation Panel before the demise of CRFP in 2009.
He was employed in the Fingerprint Bureau of Merseyside Police for 43 years, attaining expert status in 1970 after successfully completing the advanced Fingerprint Course at New Scotland Yard.
In 2004 he was promoted to Chief Fingerprint Officer, Head of the Fingerprint Bureau, responsible for the management of over 40 members of Fingerprint, administration and Chemical Laboratory Staff. He was also the Bureau Training Officer, registered with the National Training Centre for Scientific Support. He is qualified in training and Development with CIPD (Institute for Personnel and Development)
Over the years he has attended numerous crime scenes including many high profile murder and terrorist cases. He has presented expert evidence on numerous occasions to courts at all levels in this Country and once in Canada.
Since 2007 he has been engaged as a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science at Liverpool John Moores University.
Philip BOYCE BSc MSc
Philip Boyce is a leading expert in Firearms, Gunshot Residue (GSR) and Tool Marks. He has examined countless items, scenes and related items; providing expertise at medical examinations, post mortems and exhumations. He has provided thousands of expert statements for both the prosecution and defence and given expert witness testimony for many courts, both in the UK and internationally, including: Juvenile, Magistrates, Crown Courts, High Courts, Courts of Appeal and Military Court Martials.
Philip has been employed as a Forensic Scientist since 1984, gaining his aptitude and fundamental knowledge of firearms whilst serving in the Territorial Army from 1977. He left at the rank of Sergeant Technician/Weapons Instructor upon completion of his MSc in Forensic Science at Strathclyde University, immediately joining FSNI (Forensic Science Northern Ireland) where he remained until 2002. Philip’s 18 years of service during the Northern Ireland troubles have given him an unrivalled level of Firearms/Ballistics/Gunshot Residue/Tool Marks and scene expertise within the UK.
Headhunted by Forensic Alliance (now LGC Forensics Ltd) in 2002 to manage the design and build of their firearms department, Philip left LGC after ultimately completing the build within The Royal Armouries, Leeds, when he was again headhunted in 2006 by Key Forensic Services Ltd (KFS).
After setting up the Firearms facility for KFS, Philip set up his own company, Forensic Scientific, working as an independent consultant for both the prosecution and defence.
Philip is a member of the European Network of Forensic Science Institutes (ENSFI), the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners (AFTE) and is a National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA) expert advisor. In the past he was part of the NFFID (National Forensic Firearms Intelligence Database) Service Providers Group and contributed to the NABIS (National Ballistics Intelligence Service) program as a Senior Associate; NABIS is now live across the UK. Philip has received training in the use of the IBIS system both in cartridges and 3D bullet acquisition (with the Metropolitan Police) and is able to use this training for complex casework. He was a Registered Forensic Practitioner and a Specialist assessor for Firearms, Ballistics and Comparison Macroscopy up to March 2009 when the register closed. Philip continues to be involved in Firearms initiatives.
Dr. Philip HARRISON BTech(Hons) PhD
Dr Harrison has over thirty five years case work experience - predominantly in physical evidence (glass, paint, footwear and miscellaneous materials), metallurgy/traffic work, organic and inorganic analysis and fire/explosive investigations. He was employed for most of this time by the Home Office Forensic Science Service and engaged by a private consultancy.
A scene and court going reporting officer for virtually all of the above years working closely with the Police and Judicial system. He has been involved in many different types of major investigations, including murders, suicides, fatal fires, armed robberies, rapes etc. and investigated a major fire in Grenada on behalf of the British Embassy.
He has written a number of technical papers on Forensic Science, particularly on the interpretation of glass evidence.
He has lectured for a number of years on fire investigation to scenes of crime officers at the Police National Training Centre (Centrex), Harperley Hall and was also the Lead Fire Investigator for the two week Fire Investigation Course run jointly between Centrex and the Fire Service College at Moreton in Marsh. Organised and ran two Assessment Courses for new fire investigators in the Forensic Science Service.
Phil has also been involved lecturing at the University of Teesside; setting up and running the Forensic Chemistry Module of the MSc Course in Forensic Science. Fire, footwear and glass related criminal casework together with casework and Quality Assurance checking for a Police force in footwear related cases.
Claire FAWKES BSc MSc
Claire has been a forensic scientist since 2000, initially as a Scientific Officer (Court Attending Forensic Scientist) at the Strathclyde Police Forensic Support Department (Glasgow), then at Forensic Alliance (now LGC Forensics). She became a Registered Forensic Practitioner in 2004
As well as reporting a vast range of drugs cases she has participated in proficiency /competency testing and collaborative exercises and has a sound appreciation of quality assurance and accreditation, including an appreciation of the importance of internal and external quality trials to test procedures to the highest levels.
She has extensive experience in the maintenance and calibration of analytical equipment. She has also been involved in the training and mentoring of junior staff. She was involved in setting up the Drugs section at the Forensic Alliance Risley site. She was also involved in training police officers in the use of drugs testing kits.
Alison REBOUL BSc MSc
Alison has specialised in the forensic examination of documents for over twenty years. She has a BSc in Zoology and an MSc in Food Science. She joined the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science laboratory in 1986 and became a document examiner. In 1990, she moved to the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), then to the Forensic Science Service in 1993, where she worked until 2011. She was admitted to the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners in January 2002.
During this time she has conducted numerous document examinations, reporting on her results and giving expert evidence in court. She has attained a high level of proficiency in the use of ESDA and VSC in order to determine the nature of indented impressions and alterations present on documents. She has extensive experience in the recording, comparison and assessment of the significance of features within handwritten documents and has expressed opinion regarding authorship of questioned documents. She has carried out a wide range of other document related examinations including the comparison of inks, examination of forged documents and the sequencing and dating of entries. She has experience in the examination of items to determine the nature and origin of both traditionally printed documents and those produced by modern office machinery.
She has worked on several high profile and complex cases including counter terrorist cases, has produced training packages and delivered forensic awareness courses.
Yvonne TURNER BSc CBiol MSB Assoc CIPD
Yvonne holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Biochemistry from Brunel University. She is a member of the Institute of Biology and a member of the Forensic Science Society and was a Link Person in the London Laboratory and the Chepstow Laboratory.
In 1986 Yvonne joined the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory (now the Forensic Science Service, London) in the biology section where she examined items for body fluids, specialised in textile fibre analysis and also, at an early stage of her career, delivered training to police officers. She later developed into training police officers, scenes of crime officers and other visitors to the laboratory in various aspects of forensic science. Presentations to the Forensic Science Society and school workshops featured as a break to bench work. She then spent a number of years in the DNA unit and as a Textile Fibres Specialist in the Analytical Department. This period included presentation of evidence at court on both DNA and textile fibres and the publication of scientific papers. A formal training position followed many years as an examiner at the bench and at crime scenes. In 2001 she transferred internally to the Chepstow Laboratory as a Customer Training Consultant to provide bespoke training courses for police forces in the South West and Wales region.
Yvonne has delivered training courses to a wide range of audiences including police, scenes of crime officers, scientists, forensic medical examiners and support staff. In her role as Technical Training Advisor she recently lectured on courses such as New Entrants, Professionalism & Customer Awareness and Court Presentation Skills for forensic scientists. As a Customer Trainer she delivered training to Specialist Trained Officers in the correct use of the medical examination kit and use of the early evidence kit. More recently training has been delivered to Forensic Nurse Practitioners who are, in some forces, replacing the use of Forensic Medical Examiners. She was instrumental in the implementation and training to all police forces in England and Wales regarding the introduction of the New Medical Examination Kit Training Package in collaboration with the ACPO/APS/FSS Working Party. She co-ordinated the launch programme and delivered associated training to specialist officers and forensic medical examiners across England and Wales.
Yvonne is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and was recently (2010) awarded her Advanced Diploma in Learning and Development at Cambridge University. She gained her Certificate in Training Practice in 2000. Yvonne is currently studying psychometric testing (Myers Briggs Type Indicator and 16PF) with OPP.