Biography
Neil joined Abertay University as a lecturer in September 2016. His involvement with the forensic science course started back in 2002 with its inception. He ran external training courses and guest lectured to students on scenes of crime examination and firearm examination. Neil spent twenty-seven years with the Police Service (Tayside Police/Police Scotland/Metropolitan Police. Neil retired as a Scene of Crime (SOCO) team leader and was the last serving Police Officer in Scotland still specialising in forensic examination
Understandably, he has a wealth of experience and expertise, including Post Bomb Scene Manager, Crime Scene Manager, CBRN( Chemical, Biological, Radioactive and Nuclear) Manager/Examiner, Forensic Firearm & Toolmark Examiner, and a member of the UK, Disaster Victim Identification Cadre.
During his career, was seconded to the Metropolitan Police, Anti -Terrorist Branch (S013), now known as SO15 Counter Terrorism Command.
Neil has extensive practical knowledge and experience of crime scene examinations across the UK including; murder, sexual offences, fatal transportation, and industrial accidents, fires, explosions and counter-terrorism roles, Official Secrets Act prohibits countless others' identification. He has given evidence as an expert witness in the highest courts on numerous occasions.
Several of the high profile cases he worked on are; 9/11 & 7/7 investigations, and the Litvinenko (polonium poisoning). Neil’s last case before joining the staff at Abertay University was the biggest to date drug seizure in the UK or European Waters, involving £500,000,000 of cocaine.
What Neil brings to students attending Abertay University is a vast portfolio of crime scene investigations, experiences, and criminal court appearances over decades which are real and not scenarios in a textbook.
He brings the human side to forensics.
