Police keeping drink-driver's DNA breached his rights, judges rule

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Strasbourg decision in Fergus Gaughran’s case is problem for police data storage

UK police who indefinitely retained in their records the DNA profile of a man convicted of drink-driving breached his human rights, Strasbourg judges have ruled.

 

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