§ Mr. Ernie Rossasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the Metropolitan Police's development of tests to detect the presence of aminopeptidase in alleged rape and indecent assault cases; and if such tests have yet been used as evidence in any such cases.
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§ Mr. MayhewResearch was carried out at the Metropolitan Police laboratory to establish whether the presence of leucine aminopeptidase could be used as a presumptive test in cases of alleged rape and indecent assault but it has been abandoned in favour of a more promising test. The aminopeptidase test has not, I understand, been used in evidence presented to the courts in England and Wales.