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Medical Forum / General / General / January 2004Why not brain scan criminals like Ian Huntley ?
No sane human being can murder 10 year olds by design . It must be a brain problem and maybe we should MRI , PET and SPECT scan every male at 21 to spot potential murderers excerpt Davidson's theory is based on certain images. He compared the brain activity of 500 violent criminals to non-violent people. Richard Davidson, Ph.D.: "In individuals who are prone to impulsive aggression and impulsive violence, there is a very pronounced decrease in activation in regions of the prefrontal cortex." Studies of several serial killers have show differences both in size and activity in their brains. Now scientists are going one step further. They're trying to obtain "fingerprints" of the brain showing specific responses to criminal activity. This technology was developed by neuroscientist Larry Farwell to be able to identify criminal behavior with far more accuracy than a lie detector test. Larry Farwell, Ph.D., Neuroscientist: "Brain fingerprinting is a scientific technology that discovers the truth." Words or images associated with an incident such as a crime are shown to the suspect. Larry Farwell, Ph.D.: "If he recognizes it, we get that response. We can tell, 'Ah-ha, this guy is the perpetrator.'" It works by measuring a murmur in the brain, a response associated with recognition. Larry Farwelll, Ph.D.: "It doesn't matter if the person is lying. It doesn't matter if they're anxious or nervous, brain fingerprinting simply measures, is information stored in the brain?" This knowledge may lead to future solutions. Richard Davidson, Ph.D.: "Now that we know a little bit more about what these brain abnormalities are, more specific interventions can be targeted." An Iowa judge allowed brain-fingerprinting evidence in a murder convict's appeal for a new trial. However, the judge ultimately Huntley guilty of Soham murders Huntley murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman Ian Huntley has been found guilty of the murders of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and given two life sentences. As the verdicts came in, it emerged Huntley, 29, had been accused of having sex with underage girls and of rape several times in the past. Amid criticism of the vetting procedure that allowed Huntley to get a job as a school caretaker, Home Secretary David Blunkett ordered an inquiry. Maxine Carr, 26, was given three-and-a-half years for conspiring to pervert the course of justice but cleared of two counts of assisting an offender. She could be free and electronically tagged within 30 days, because she has already spent 16 months in jail. Huntley was taken to Belmarsh Prison in south-east London after sentencing. Jessica's father, Leslie Chapman, described Huntley as a "timebomb just ready to go off", adding, "unfortunately our girls were in the wrong place at the wrong time". 'Few worse crimes' Sentencing Huntley, Mr Justice Moses said he had displayed "merciless cynicism" after killing the 10-year-old best friends. The next time I'd like to see him was how we last saw our daughters and that was in a coffin Leslie Chapman Soham inquiry team praised Judge's tribute to girls' parents The judge said: "You murdered them both. You are the one person who knows how you murdered them, you are the one person who knows why." He said: "There are few worse crimes than your murder of those two young girls". Huntley was told he added to the families' grief by pretending to help search for the "much loved" 10-year-olds and by offering words of sympathy to Holly's father. 'Wrong place' Later at a press conference, Mr Chapman said of Huntley: "The next time I'd like to see him was how we last saw our daughters and that was in a coffin." He said he hoped Huntley would one day have "the guts" to publicly explain what happened on the night the girls died. Kevin Wells, father of Holly, said he hoped the Home Office inquiry would ensure "no other families have to endure what we have over the past 16 months". PREVIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IAN HUNTLEY One of indecent assault Four of underage sex Three of rape - one resulted in a charge Huntley slipped past police checks Full list of allegations Prime Minister Tony Blair praised both sets of parents for their "tremendous dignity". Det Chief Supt Chris Stevenson, who led the search for the girls, said Huntley was a "calculating and callous child killer". He said only Huntley knew why he had killed Holly and Jessica, adding: "Perhaps one day he might demonstrate a sliver of humanity and explain why he did what he did on that terrible day last August." The chief constable of Humberside Police admitted that the force made several mistakes before clearing Ian Huntley to work with children in Soham. It is now known that North East Lincolnshire Social Services had received four complaints of underage sexual relations against Huntley in the late 1990s. They said none of the victims wanted to make a formal complaint, so there was nothing they could do against him. On Wednesday, the council's chief executive Jim Leivers said he welcomed the verdicts and that the council's thoughts were with the parents and families of the murdered girls. Girls' families react to verdict 'Astounding dignity' of families Humberside Police said he was reported to them eight times by alleged victims, and he was also arrested once for failure to appear at court. There were also three allegations of rape against Huntley. One investigation resulted in a charge, in May 1998, but the case never came to court as the CPS was not hopeful of a conviction and dropped the case. Police operation Holly and Jessica vanished from Soham on 4 August 2002. Their bodies were found in a ditch on 17 August, after one of the biggest police operations the UK has ever seen. As the jury returned two 11 to 1 majority verdicts on Huntley, the Wells family hugged each other and sobbed. A hushed "yes" resounded around the courtroom but Huntley showed no emotion. The jury also returned a majority 11 to 1 verdict on Carr's lesser charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice. Sexual motivation Huntley had admitted Holly and Jessica had died at his home and he dumped their bodies, but claimed it was an accident. Profile: Maxine Carr In court, Huntley said Holly died after falling into his bath, and he killed Jessica by putting his hand over her mouth to stop her screaming. But the prosecution laid out an alternative version of events - that Huntley lured Holly and Jessica into his house, possibly with a sexual motivation, and murdered them when his plan went wrong. It said he then coldly went about destroying the evidence and trying to hide his involvement to police, press and local residents. Rugby player Carr admitted to the court that she had lied to police to provide an alibi for her boyfriend on the weekend the girls disappeared. She had claimed to be with him in Soham, but in fact had been in Grimsby with a 17-year-old rugby player with whom she was having an affair. In October 1991, Richard Lucio de Hoyos, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity for the kidnapping and killing a 9-year-old girl. A PET scan indicated that he might have suffered blunt-force trauma injuries to the right frontal lobe of his brain possibly resulting in loss of inhibition. In January 1992, Gregory Scott Smith, pleaded guilty to the kidnap, rape, and murder of an 8-year-old boy. A brain scan indicated slower than normal processing in the frontal and temporal lobes of Smith^?s brain. In January 1998, Alan Brett Holland, a convicted killer of a 65-year-old woman was shown to have an asymmetrical brain. His defense attorney tried to argue that exposure to pesticides as a child impaired his judgment Diet of fish 'can prevent' teen violence New study reveals that the root cause of crime may be biological, not social Gaby Hinsliff, chief political correspondent Sunday September 14, 2003 The Observer Feeding children a diet rich in fish could prevent violent and anti-social behaviour in their teens, according to research to be announced this week which suggests the root causes of crime may be biological rather than social. The study raises major questions over the extent to which criminals exercise free will, as well as fuelling fresh debate over whether simple childhood interventions might be more use in preventing crime than blaming parents or organising draconian crackdowns on crime. Professor Adrian Raine, a leading psychologist at the University of California, will outline a growing body of evidence showing that violent offenders have physical defects in a part of the brain linked to decision-making and self-control - which may make them more likely to lash out. Raine's latest research, to be unveiled this week in Sheffield, looked at whether brain deficits could be avoided by action in the early years when the tissue is still developing. A group of three-year-olds from Mauritius were given an intensive programme of enriched diet, exercise and cognitive stimulation, which included being read to and involved in conversation. By the age of 11 they demonstrated increased brain activity on brain scan read-outs, and by 23 they were 64 per cent less likely than a control group of children not on the programme to have criminal records. 'This is not the silver bullet to solving crime and violence, but I think it's certainly one of the ingredients,' said Raine, a former prison psychologist. > No sane human being can murder 10 year olds by design . > It must be a brain problem and maybe we should MRI , PET and SPECT > scan every male at 21 to spot potential murderers Sadly, the impulse to sexually abuse and then murder just about anyone has proved to be much more common than might have been supposed in the light of media disclosures about such activity. Typically, it is carried out by obsessive individuals or troops in occupied countries but only one common factor appears to dominate, the opportunity to commit the offence but escape detection. This is hardly the case for Ian Huntley, who in any case made no attempt to escape the law. He merely denied responsability for the murders and, in spite of supposedly overwhelming forensic evidence against him, not a single bit of which was directly related to the victims' bodies, the Crown Prosecution Service took 15 months to bring him to trial. Committing the murders locally would also represent a way of *not* escaping detection and fails to fit the m.o. of most murderers. It also has no connection with Huntley's previous behaviour, he was never even charged with causing anyone's death on a previous occasion. There are, however, plenty of candidates who would fit the common profile perfectly; US servicemen in transit from one country to another, stopping briefly at a base, committing whatever perverted crime they have in mind upon member(s) of the local population and then moving on before they can be apprehended or, often enough, before the crime has even been discovered. If the girl's bodies had not been discovered in the vicinity of USAF Lakenheath this consideration might not need to be taken too seriously. However, in view of the proximity of the bodies to the base, it must be regarded as a gross dereliction of duty by the Cambridgeshire police that they did not begin their investigation in USAF Lakenheath itself. In their line of work they could hardly be unaware of what 'US army bases always do - breed hard drugs dealing and a wide variety of brothels including paedophiliac 'fun-rooms'.' (source, Dervla Murphy's 'Embers of Chaos'). Like the case of Dr. David Kelly's 'suicide' this one has 'politically motivated cover-up' written all over it. Steve Shires. > excerpt > Davidson's theory is based on certain images. He compared the brain [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > able to identify criminal behavior with far more accuracy than a lie > detector test..................... >. If the girl's bodies had not been discovered in the vicinity of USAF Lakenheath this consideration might not need to be taken too seriously. However, in view of the proximity of the bodies to the base, it must be regarded as a gross dereliction of duty by the Cambridgeshire police that they did not begin their investigation in USAF Lakenheath itself.< You are a moron . Lakenheath is fifty miles or so and there are tens of bases . Besides the girls bodies were not discovered till after they arrested Huntley . Huntly is a criminal and brain scans will show frontal lobe damage . > >. If the girl's bodies had not been > discovered in the vicinity of USAF Lakenheath this consideration might [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Lakenheath is fifty miles or so and there > are tens of bases . Jessica and Hollys' bodies were found next to the perimeter fence at USAF Lakenheath. Look the location up on a map. > Besides the girls bodies were not discovered till > after they arrested Huntley . You mean, that's how the news releases were arranged. > Huntly is a criminal and brain scans will show frontal lobe > damage . You are a moron . And you can't spell Huntley's name correctly two times in a row. Steve Shires. You mean, that's how the news releases were arranged.< Typical brainless conspiracist , believing things without a shred of evidence. Huntley has confessed to their killing by the way. > You mean, that's how the news releases were arranged.< > > Typical brainless conspiracist , believing things without a > shred of evidence. Huntley has confessed to their killing by the way. If someone pumped disorientating drugs into you for 15 months you'd say the same as him in the dock, or anything you were told to say to get away from the torture they put him through. Come to think of it, 15 hours could be enough. And he never did confess to murder, though his brief Coward must have told him he was doing the equivalent to confessing to it with strong possibility that the judge would take dim view of his apparent evasion should he be found guilty. Plus the media had already found him guilty, about a year before his trial. There is obviously too much in this case that doesn't add up. Unless you can't add in the first place, that is. Steve Shires. |
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