RegardingID Archive | Biometric program nabs suspected rapist

Monday, September 15, 2008

Australian, British and U.S. agencies worked together to help find a suspected rapist who fled Australia to Britain in 2006, according an Australian IT article. Thanks to fingerprints collected by the U.S. when the man was traveling through the country and the new biometric passport program in the UK, a match was found in an old rape case from Australia even though the man had been successfully living under an assumed name in Britain. The offender is in custody and waiting to appear in court.

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Biometric program nabs suspected rapist