Post Mortem Forensic Art

Forensic art techniques are used to produce an appropriate, ‘sanitised’ image of a deceased individual for use in publicity appeals, enabling police to gain information from the public.

In cases where police are dealing with an unidentified body or a badly injured, unconscious person, forensic artwork can significantly aid identification. This is crucial to enable family members to be informed, and in cases of suspicious deaths, essential to the investigation of tracing a possible killer.