Bloodstains on the Cobbles of Soho
(SA/2025)
If you look closely at the above photo you'll see a few tiny drops of bright red blood.
One wonders what a forensic scientist would make of these tell-tale marks were they subject to a blood pattern analysis.
Would they be able to tell, for example, if there had been a murder, a suicide, or merely an accident?
Probably.
Would they be able to extract DNA evidence from the dried stains and thus tell us something bio-factual of the person who had shed their blood on a cobblestoned street in Soho?
Perhaps.
But what they couldn't speak of is my horror at seeing you fall on a street where, many years ago, we were once young and in love ...
