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Keeping DNA 'breaches rights'

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The DNA samples or fingerprints of people suspected, but not convicted, of crimes should not be kept, says the European Court of Human Rights.

It said police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland were breaching people's human rights by keeping samples.

Jon Brain reports.

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