Students develop 'virtual murder scene'

The virtual "fly through" of a murder scene has been produced by final year games and animation students, who worked to a brief set by forensic psychology academics.

Dr Iain Garner, senior academic in forensic psychology, said: "Mistaken eyewitness accounts are the biggest cause of miscarriages of justice.

"Memory is a constructed phenomenon and it's very unreliable under duress. The virtual murder scene is being used to examine how people scan a room, especially a room where a murder has been committed."

The students have also developed a car crash simulator, which is used to test witnesses' memories of crashes.