The National Forensics Library
The National Forensics Library is the world’s leading online forensic text
resource for researchers and students of linguistics and related disciplines.
Here you can download over 700 forensic texts, a small but significant
sampling of the data we hold. Only public domain material has been released,
much of it anonymised (but otherwise unaltered). No operational or other
confidential material has been or will be released.
The National Forensics Library
A collection of 60 anonymised UK police statements
Outside of government no institution has the same
depth and range of forensic linguistics texts which
are found in the National Forensics Library.
Dr John Olsson, Director, National Forensics Library
A collection of 80 Australian police statements
A collection of 140 death row statements
R v Couchman: Phone texts in the Couchman
case. More details here.
John McX: Malicious communications to a 17 year
old youth. The texts are available here.
James Earl Reed, executed in June 2008.
An image file of the confession of John
Reginald Christie.
R v Hodgson: Phone texts in connection with the
death of Jenny Nichol. Go here and look for folder
‘NFL Files’. Within the folder you will find a sub-
folder called ‘R v Hodgson’.
Public domain documents showing use of police
language. Go here and look for ‘NFL Files’. Within the
folder you will find these sub-folders:
*John McX Police Report
*Miscellaneous transcribed and image police statements
*Police Officer Witness Statements in Shipman Inquiry
*Shipman Inquiry Witness Statements
*Versace death report
A collection of suicide notes.
If your university or institution wishes to facilitate
your own students’ and researchers’ access to
these documents and would like to link to the
National Forensics Library please link to our main
page http://www.thetext.co.uk
