Famous Forensic Linguistics cases

Supreme, Superior or Higher Courts: US Supreme

Court, South Carolina Supreme Court, Royal Courts of

Justice, London; Central Criminal Court, London (‘The

Old Bailey’); Glasgow High Court of Justiciary;

Edinurgh High Court of Justiciary; Superior Court of

Justice, Ontario. Crown Courts: Leeds, Luton,

Wrexham, Manchester, Lincoln, Derby, Taunton,

Aylesbury, Gloucester, Teesside, Lewes, Liverpool,

Winchester, Warrington, Peterborough, Bristol.

Magistrates or County Courts: Wrexham, Birkenhead,

Beverley, Coventry, Oldham, Cheltenham, Lincoln,

Birmingham, Durham, Cardiff. Coroners Courts:

Brecon, Luton. Sheriff Court: Glasgow, Kilmarnock, etc.

Courts where Dr. Olsson

has provided evidence

The Facebook Murder - Peter

Chapman

Teesside Crown Court, March 2010:

authorship of phone text messages of

victim whom he murdered.

Authorship of emails in international

paedophile ring conspiracy - James

Rennie and Neil Strachan, 2009.

Garry Weddell: authorship of alleged

suicide note of wife (committed

suicide before trial).

Tony Couchman: indicted for murder

of daughter, Victoria. Probable

author of text messages from

victim’s phone (committed suicide

before trial).

KB - a minor child who was subject of

an Anti-Social Behaviour Order. The

Order was ambiguous and the youth

was cleared of infringing it after

linguistic analysis by Dr Olsson.

Many others, including: Barrel Killer (murder of Julie Turner,

Yorkshire, 2005); Dorset suitcase murder (Samantha Faulder, Richard

Ormond - murder of Richard Emery, 2008); Rehan Asghar (murder of

Kashif Mahmood, 16 years old, 2007), plus linguistic analysis in more

than 150 other homicide investigations and many other types of

investigation from 1995 to the present.