Separating the guilty and the innocent
Chromatography is one of the key weapons in the forensic scientist’s arsenal, as Clare Sansom discovers
From the studying arson cases in the 1960s, forensic chromatography has come a long way. Gas- and high-peformance liquid chromatography are both widely used and have been involved in some high-profile legal cases in recent years – including the 7/7 London bombings and the Harold Shipman murders.