Sheremet scandal. Scotland Yard refutes the fantasies of the heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KNIISE. Document

24.09.2020 Views: 7 Author: Леонід Маслов

On September 22, we received a response from the UK’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), better known as Scotland Yard, regarding the use of forensic gait analysis as evidence. The MPS states that gait can only be ancillary or circumstantial, not primary evidence.

British police use forensic gait analysis solely as supportive evidence and as a useful tool of exclusion… Forensic gait analysis should not be used as the only type of evidence in a criminal trial.

This is only anecdotal evidence and should be treated with great caution. There is no set methodology. The expertise is subjective, based on extensive research and experience.

This response was provided to us by the Scotland Yard Freedom of Information Department in letter No. 01/FOI/20/015819 dated September 22, 2020, in response to an information request from Kruhovy’s lawyer, Andriy Antonenko’s defense attorney.

In addition, this letter, signed by Officer Deborah Solomon, provides an updated version of the UK Code of Judicial Practice regarding the conduct of forensic gait analysis expert examinations. It states (paragraph 18.7) that all casework should be reviewed by another forensic examiner who is competent and experienced in forensic gait analysis.

Let us remind you that Andriy Antonenko and Yulia Kuzmenko are being charged solely on the basis of their identification by walkthrough.

The British Court Manual states that the walk is a scientifically unproven method, and Professor Ivon Birch, who conducted the analysis in the case, is the only one to have measured the error rate using the “black box” method. This error rate was 29% (page 11 of the manual).

Recall that Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, in an interview with the Fakty publication, claimed that gait cannot be faked, it is a kind of analogue of fingerprints.

Similar fabrications were expressed by Mr. Ruvin, an explosives expert, former Soviet officer, and police and customs officer, director of the KNDISE, on the live broadcast of Savik Shuster’s Freedom of Speech program on December 13, 2019.