Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Physics (1972) University of Manchester
PhD Physics (1975) University of Manchester
Registered Forensic Practitioner (2001)

Career Details
Recruited to the Home Office Forensic Science Service as a Document Examiner (Higher Scientific Officer) in 1975, Tony resigned in 1992 (Principal Scientific Officer and deputy head of Questioned Documents Department) to establish Document Evidence Ltd together with six other colleagues.

During the course of his career he has examined thousands of cases involving tens of thousands of documents. All aspects of Forensic Document Examination including handwriting, signatures, typescript, photocopies, counterfeiting, alterations, paper and ink are routinely part of his job.

He has given evidence in court on over a hundred occasions. The vast majority of these have been in the Crown and Magistrates' courts in criminal proceedings although he has given evidence at the Royal Courts of Justice in various appeals. He gave evidence at the trial of Eddie Gilfoyle and at the appeal of 'The Bridgewater Three' as well as in a number of other murder trials, major fraud trials and so on.

He has been involved in many forensic projects relating to document examination and has been the author or co-author of over twenty scientific papers most of which have been published in forensic research journals. These include:-

• The distribution of damage defects among characters of printwheel typing elements (1990) Forensic Science International 47: 249-259.
• Speed of Writing (1991) Journal of the Forensic Science Society 31(1): 21-29.
• CUSUM: a credible method for the determination of authorship? (1997) Science & Justice 37(2): 129-138.

Current Position
Director of Document Evidence Ltd.

Other Details

Member of the Forensic Science Society

Member of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners (CRFP)

Member of the Royal Microscopical Society