„Mein Sohn wurde nach einem tödlichen Unfall von der Polizei fälschlicherweise identifiziert – als der Fehler aufgedeckt wurde, war es zu spät“

The thing about the Rotherham crash is he wasn’t identified until he came around, despite the family of the deceased lad spending days at hospital with the one that survived and not identifying him as not their relative. Very sad case but I don’t feel there’s blame to be attributed there.

What I never understand about articles like this, usually criticizing the police over something, is why they interview about five people who all just say emotional, obvious things e.g. „this is very distressing for the families involved“, „identifying people from their driving licence alone isn’t enough“ etc etc. But they never seem to offer an alternative? They’ve talked to an expert in this article who offers absolutely no solution to the problem. What are the police actually meant to do here then? I guess just not identify the victim at all until they wake up – but the expert says waiting until the victim regains consciousness also isn’t good enough. So what are they meant to do??