Joan Albert Case Study

In 2003 a man known as Simon Hall was jailed after the brutal murder of Joan Albert in her home after an attempted burglary. Joan had suffered at least five stab wounds from a carving knife from her own kitchen, she was found dead in the hallway. He initially claimed he was innocent and although admitting to burglary, he claimed it was at a different place and therefore it was impossible for him to have killed Joan. Unfortunately for him however, forensic investigators had found fibres on her body, which after analysis, forensic scientists deemed them to be his and the court therefore jailed him. This case is remarkable because it is the first case in the UK that a person has been conflicted entirely based on the evidence from the fibres since