Sharp observation.
Sometimes, a series of small pieces of evidence, none, in its own right, sufficient to convict, can, cumulatively, add up to a damning case for conviction.
Peter Voisey was convicted of abducting a little girl from the bath of her ground-floor flat while the whole family was in.
There was a very weak DNA link to Voisey, but not, on its own, enough to convict. Police took a footprint of a shoe from the wet floor of the bathroom that exactly matched the footprint of a pair of shoes Voisey owned. DNA triangulation of Voisey's phone placed him in the area of the abduction at the time it occurred.
Finally the evidence of the little girl abducted who (thank goodness!) survived her ordeal was never revealed, but was crucial to Voisey's conviction. For example, she might have been able to describe details of the interior of the vehicle he whisked her away in, that matched the description of Voisey's car.
IN the Chronicle’s series on the region’s most notorious crimes, Lisa Hutchinson steps back to December 2005 to take a look at the horrific bath snatch case which shocked the nation.
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