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Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders
Patricia Wiltshire reveals how her forensic knowledge helped secure the conviction of Ian Huntley for the 2002 murders
Botanist Patricia Wiltshire has revealed how her knowledge of stinging nettles helped police solve the Soham murders in 2002 – a case which concluded in the conviction and a life sentence for school caretaker Ian Huntley. Wiltshire, who is a palynologist – a pollen expert – was speaking to Lauren Laverne on Sunday’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. In 2002, the bodies of schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman had been discovered in a ditch, and Wiltshire was brought in to establish the path taken by the murderer.
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