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.
Studies have shown that donor DNA in blood transfusion recipients persists for a number of days, sometimes longer, but its presence is unlikely to alter genetic tests significantly. Red blood cells, the primary component in transfusions, have no nucleus and no DNA.