DNA database

12.02.00am BST (GMT +0100) Wed 20th Aug 2008

Dear Mr Khalid Mahmood MP,

I am writing to you today to request that you lobby the government to change the law so that the DNA of innocent people (those who are either not charged or who are later acquitted) is removed from the national DNA database.

The UK has the largest DNA database in the world, and it holds samples of around one million people who are innocent, including over one hundred thousand innocent children.

The national DNA database is a valuable crime-fighting tool however this Labour government are using it in far too heavy-handed a manner. In Britain we believe that you are innocent until proven guilty. We must restore the balance to the database and remove the DNA of all those who are innocent.

I hope that you will lobby the government to change the law so that the DNA of innocent people (those who are either not charged or who are later acquitted) is removed from the national DNA database.

Yours sincerely,

Adam Nazir Ahmed Teladia