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In his latest book, Wordcrime: Solving Crime through Forensic Linguistics, Olsson documents a couple of dozen of the hundreds of cases he's worked on over the years: analysing, for example, the text messages sent among a gang of teenagers who beat a middle-aged cyclist to death in an underpass in Luton; scrutinising witness statements accusing a former mayor of a town in Rwanda of complicity in the genocide; or more banally comparing The Da Vinci Code to the novels of Lew Perdue, one of several people to have accused Dan Brown of plagiarism.
Olsson acknowledges Jan Svartvik as `the "father" of the discipline' for the part he played in the posthumous pardoning of Timothy Evans, John Christie's neighbour at 10 Rillington Place. Evans was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his wife and child, which Christie was almost certainly guilty of. More than a decade later Svartvik showed that Evans's `confession' was largely written in `what is known as "policeman's register"'.
But Olsson is otherwise fairly protective of his turf, and ruthlessly scathing of the part-timers. He doesn't so much as mention Don Foster, for example, and devotes one of his chapters to exposing the incompetence of `Professor Willerby (not his real name)', an expert witness for the prosecution of a man falsely accused of anonymous libel. No prizes for guessing whose evidence led to the case being thrown out of court.
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