OCCURRENCE OF MARKS EVIDENCE Marks evidence is commonly encountered in civil cases involving product liability, authentication,tampering, counterfeit products and traffic accident insurance claims, and criminal investigations of vandalism, housebreaking, robbery, suicides, homicides and drug trafficking. The evidence types encountered are extremely diverse and include the following: Mass-manufactured products such as plastic bags, moulded or […]
Newspaper sheets as evidence at crime scenes
Lim T.B*, Michael Tay Ming Kiong International Association of Forensic Sciences, 16th Triennial Meeting August 2002, Montpellier, France. (oral presentation) This presentation will describe the evidential values of newspaper sheets found at crime scenes. The newspaper printing process will be discussed and linked to the features appeared on newspaper sheets. Newspaper sheets can be used […]
Broadsheet newspapers as evidence at crime scenes
Lim T.B*, Michael Tay Ming Kiong American Academy of Forensic Sciences 55th Annual Meeting Feb 2003, Chicago, USA. (poster presentation) The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the factory-cut edges of tabloid and broadsheet newspaper sheets and to ascertain the possibility of connecting separated intact newspaper sheets to the original copy of […]
Comparison of manufacturing marks on moulded plastic medicine bottles
Chow Y.S*, Lim Chin Chin, Michael Tay Ming Kiong International Association of Forensic Sciences 17th Triennial Meeting, 21-26 August 2005, Hong Kong. (oral presentation) Background: This case study highlights the usefulness of physical comparison to differentiate between mass-produced plastic bottles made using different moulds. A plastic bottle supplier suspected that the factory he contracted to […]
Forensic Analysis and Comparison of Plastic Drinking Straws
Chow Y.S*, Koh C.W, Oh S.P., Lim S.M., Yew S.Y., Lim Chin Chin 6th European Academy of Forensic Science Conference, 20-24 Aug 2012, The Hague, Netherlands (Poster Presentation) [abstract] In Singapore, the common packaging materials used in drug trafficking are plastic bags, adhesive tapes and plastic drinking straws. The characteristics of plastic bags and adhesive […]