Jonathan Spencer Consultants Ltd
INDEPENDENT FORENSIC SCIENTISTS

Jonathan Spencer BSc — qualifications and experience

Jonathan Spencer served with the Royal Air Force Police from 1975 to 1985, mainly on armed anti-terrorist and security duties including optical and electronic surveillance. He then attended Teesside Polytechnic. He was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science (Honours) in 1989, after which he undertook postgraduate research for three years at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Mr Spencer was employed by an independent forensic science laboratory as a senior reporting forensic scientist from 1995 to 2003. During this period, he was instructed in more than 500 cases that predominantly involved firearms and video evidence. These cases originated from England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Oman, the Philippines, and the United States. He is a Member of the Forensic Science Society and the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts.

Firearms experience

Mr Spencer has held a life-long interest in firearms and has made a study of their design, mechanism and performance for more than 30 years. To this end, he owns a technical reference library relating to firearms that extends to more than 1,000 titles. His experience covers a wide range of firearm types and includes pistols, rifles, shotguns, machine-guns and rifle-launched grenades. Firearms casework encompass a wide range of issues ranging from simple identification and classification of firearms and ammunition to the analysis and reconstruction of some very complex shooting incidents. Some exemplar cases are listed below.

Video & photographic experience

Mr Spencer has been instructed in more than 100 cases involving the examination and analysis of video and other imagery for the purpose of identifying the people, objects or events recorded thereon. He has examined many tens of thousands of questioned video and photographic images and spent in excess of 900 hours examining imagery material and writing technical reports on that material.

Court experience

Jonathan Spencer has testified to the following Courts:

England and Wales

• Magistrates’ Court
• Crown Court
• High Court
• Court of Appeal

Northern Ireland

• Magistrates’ Court
• Crown Court

Scotland

• Sheriff’s Court

Republic of Ireland

• Special Criminal Court

The Court of Appeal found Jonathan Spencer to be “a most careful and impressive witness” (R v Paul Cleeland [2002] EWCA Crim 293, 13 Feb 02).

Click here to see a short list of exemplar cases, some case studies will be added soon.

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