When were fingerprints first used as police evidence in the u.k?
First Conviction UK: On June 27 1902 someone broke into a house in Denmark Hill, London and stole some billiard balls. The police noticed some fingerprints on a newly painted windowsill and the Fingerprint Bureau was called in. The left thumb left the best print and it was photographed, then taken to the bureau and compared to prints on file. A match was found and it belonged to a 41 year old laborer named Harry Jackson. On September 13 1902 Harry Jackson was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison and became the world’s first person to be convicted based on fingerprint evidence First conviction worldwide: Argentina, 1892 – Vucetich & Galton – Juan Vucetich made the first criminal fingerprint identification in 1892. He was able to identify Francis Rojas, a woman who murdered her two sons and cut her own throat in an attempt to place blame on another. Her bloody print was left on a door post, proving her identity as the murderer.
