Summary: Act V, scene v. Brutus sits with his few remaining men. He asks them to hold his sword so that he may run against it and kill himself. The Ghost of Caesar has appeared to him on the battlefield, he says, and he believes that the time has come for him to die.
In response to the judgment the Labour Government passed legislation to reduce the period that innocentsâ DNA could be retained to six years for adults and three years, in most cases, for children. These reforms were never brought into force. Reform under the Protection of Freedoms Act.
Flakes of skin, drops of blood, hair, and saliva all contain DNA that can be used to identify us. In fact, the study of forensics, commonly used by police departments and prosecutors around the world, frequently relies upon these small bits of shed DNA to link criminals to the crimes they commit.