Dr Jeffrey Glassberg filed the first patent which explored this opportunity in 1983, and British geneticist Sir Alec Jeffreys developed a profiling process the following year. Once established, authorities used profiling for the first time during an inquiry following murders between 1983 and 1986.15 Sept 2020
When was DNA first used in forensics UK?
DNA forensics was first reported in 1984 by Dr. Alec Jefferys at the University of Leicester when he realized that DNA contained sequences that continued to repeat next to each other. He also figured out that these sequences that were repeated were different for each individual.