"– and give victims the justice they deserve"

Hmm, Slice and Dice by the Government - just what people deserve. They shouldn't have been so negligent as to be involved in a crime in the first place.

i, for one, welcome our new death house overlords... :-)

I wouldn't have though £780,000 would get you a one-bedroom flat in Westminster.

Does seem a bit of a bargain in terms of govt. spending - 102 slots for under a mill. Or is it missing a couple of zeroes?

Mine's the blood spattered one with the scalpel in the pocket.

Ah-hahahaha. That is all I have to say.

Peculiar number!

Sure there's a very good (plausible) reason for this?

Isn't there?

So that's who did it!

"we shan't just be stacked like floppy firewood " - that made me laugh this morning

That actually seems pretty cheap for something gov.uk has initiated?

Whether it's any use? I don't know - I can only assume so.

I still have the feeling our cops are still WAY behind the yanks in all this CSI stuff.

Either this was one of the very few value for money projects the government have come up with or there are a couple of 0's missing.

That'd be the House of Lords, wouldn't it?

I bet they got this second-hand from CSI.

Good Lord! How many murders-per-day do you people have over there?

You didn't mention how many pathologists will be lurking there. 50? 20? 10? Or is this really just a big freezer unit to hold victims until one of the 2 employees can get around to them?

The skull and crossbones because... well, bones, obviously.

It could be used to store a large number of New Labour's backbench zombie army within easy lurching distance of Parliament for when they're needed to vote through a particularly gruesome piece of lorranorder legislation.

I recall a story of an eminent forensic who used to say to rookie cops during their first attendance at a post-mortem examination that anyone found horizontal would be treated to a free autopsy...

"by maximising forensic technological advances to find and punish criminals – and give victims the justice they deserve," Smith proclaimed"

What's missing from that sentence?

Yep. One tiresome obstruction.

We have to try them and convict them before we can punish them. Mind you, with Benito Blair's legacy still in power, I wouldn't be remotely surprised to see the independent judiciary's days numbered...

On the TV show CSI, they stack the bodies 3-high in the fridges.

Some bureaucrat probably specified 100 as a nice round number. But that doesn't divide by 3. 102 (or 99) does. So I guess the designer rounded it up.

Disclaimer: All my knowledge of mortuaries was gained from watching CSI, NCIS, and Tru Calling.

We have a Home Secretary who plainly doesn't know what "forensic" means: pertaining to a court or the courts. Why's that not a surprise?

CSI isn't actually real. I don't what we're like in real life.

Anyway who cares about justice in the US...all the cops have guns, you don't need forensics!

The skull? Need I say?

Soylent Green is PEOPLE!

If this is the Mortuary in Lisson Grove, I remember it being written up when it was built and what impressed me was the Septic Shower suite for cleaning infested Gentlemen of The Road - all that stainless steel - so Hi-Tech !!

The fridges probably stack 3 high. Probably a toss up between 102 and 99.

102 probably isn't that huge depending on how much of London they are planning to cover.

Still they can always use a refrigerated container in the car park as hospitals occasionally do at time of crisis. Apparently Sun have a few air conditioned crates going a begging with nice metal racks already installed.

Mine's the lab coat.

Instructions: List all possible contributing factors EXCEPT the taser shot. Don't mention the taser shot. For god's sake, don't mention the taser shot. In-grown toe nails are a possible contributing factor, but not the taser shot.

Hardly - it only holds 102, although hecta-mortuary sounds just weird and kilo-mortuary, although only 1 order of magnitude out, sounds almost right if pronounced Killer...

However if you just mean large mortuary, why not say so?

Mine is the one with PEDANT written across the back

If we get another 5 built - then that would accommodate virtually ALL the inhabitants of the Palace of Westminster...........

Just a thought.........

(but rather a nice one)

Mine's the one with arrows on - or probably soon will be...

Presumably Shelf 101 is reserved for those unfortunate individuals that Big Brother merely wishes to forget about. (with shelf 102 providing overflow capacity - bureaucrats are ever-pragmatic)

I want you all to know that if I'm machine-gunned by panicky Yank invaders while manning any barricades, I want to be stacked in Trafalgar Square, not hidden from the eyes of the world.

Helicopter, because we'll never see tanks in Trafalgar Square (though only because they'd fall through the streets into the Underground).

>We have to try them and convict them before we can punish them

Presumtion of innocence ? That is sooooo 90s...

No, you see under the watchful eye Citizen Gordon, you will be issued with an ASBO at birth, together with your identity card. That way, when you breach it, you know where you live. Oh, and just so we know where you are when you're not at home - bend over, we need to fit you with this rectally implanted GPS tracker. Don't worry, if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

I was going to be a pathologist...

But they say it's a dieing trade...

I always wanted to be a lexicographer but my thesaurus got in the way. That is a DYING trade.