Killer ideas for forensic students

Police quickly foiled an attempted murder in Bournemouth when they collared the attacker as he tried to strangle a teenage girl.

Luckily this scene was only a ‘mock-up’ by forensic students from Oakmead College of Technology to get a better understanding of the criminal mind and crime scene investigations.

The sixth formers were re-creating and filming several grizzly scenarios based on recent high profile murders, at the Streetwise Interactive Centre in West Howe.

Fourteen BTEC Level 3 forensic science students teamed up with media students and staff to play the parts of victims, police officers, crime scene investigators and murderers.

“We came up with the idea of doing this when one of the students mentioned Jack the Ripper, and we started talking about how the ‘crossbow cannibal’ Stephen Griffiths was being likened to him,” said Sandy Gascoyne, a science teacher at Oakmead.

“The aim is to get students thinking about what might actually happen in a murder, to understand the laborious and time consuming work of crime scene investigators, and to realise just how much crime scenes are dramatised on TV.”

The students will now work as a team editing their footage, including adding scenes from their mock-up CSI laboratory.