Clause 40 - Criminal justice purposes
Human Tissue Bill
9:30 am
Mr Harry Cohen (Leyton and Wanstead, Labour)
Subsection (1) describes
''the prevention or detection of crime, or . . . the conduct of a prosecution''
as purposes of examinations and the removal of body parts. As Committee members might know, I spoke on Second Reading about a long-term concern of mine: the removal of brains of criminals and people generally. I am led to understand that the brain is removed in an extremely high percentage of cases when there is a pathologist post-mortem examination. I do not understand why.