Bloodstains on the Cobbles of Soho

 

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 determine 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 ...   

 

 

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