Evidence you can walk into
LiDAR, photogrammetry and the modernisation of justice
A crime scene is destroyed the moment it is examined.
Richard introduced 3D LiDAR scanning and virtual-reality evidence presentation to HM Courts & Tribunals Service, and built support for it across Policing and the Crown Prosecution Service.
This talk explains how a physical scene becomes a permanent, navigable, evidentially sound digital record, and what happens to a courtroom when a jury can walk through the scene rather than look at photographs of it.
It is also a case study in something harder than the technology: persuading three separate agencies to change a process that has not changed in a century.
Audience Key Takeaways
How spatial capture changes what counts as evidence, and what that demands of the chain of custody
Why the technical case was the easy part, and the cross-agency case was not
Where else irreversible physical events should be captured as data — and are not