Angela Gallop has been a practising forensic scientist for nearly 50 years. Originally a senior scientist with the Home Office Forensic Science Service, in 1986 she established the independent consultancy, Forensic Access, primarily to advise lawyers representing people accused of crime involving forensic evidence for a better balance between prosecution and defence at court. 

Then in 1997 Angela co-founded Forensic Alliance – the first alternative source of comprehensive forensic services for police and other investigators. In 2005 she facilitated the acquisition of Forensic Alliance by LGC (The Laboratory of The Government Chemist) to connect forensic science with the wider scientific community. For the next 5 years, she ran LGC Forensics - now part of Eurofins and the largest supplier of forensic science services in the UK and largest independent supplier in Europe.

In addition to setting up and running forensic science laboratories, Angela has specialised in the investigation of complex cases. She established cold case teams first in Forensic Alliance and then in LGC Forensics, personally overseeing the majority of the more complex cases herself. Over the years these have included such notable cases as Damilola Taylor, Rachel Nickell, and the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, and Stephen Lawrence murders. 

In more recent times, Angela co-founded Axiom International Ltd - a provider of security and justice services (including forensics) mainly on behalf of the UK Government to fragile and conflict affected countries overseas. She has also been associated with the UK’s first academic Centre for Forensic Science at Strathclyde University for some years – first as Strategic Director and now as Visiting Professor. She was awarded a CBE for services to forensic science in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours.



Currently Angela divides her time between continuing to oversee the forensic investigation of complex cases, and writing books on forensic science. Her autobiography When the Dogs Don’t Bark was published in 2019, and How to Solve a Crime came out earlier this year. She has also recently been appointed Co-chair of the new Westminster Commission on Forensic Science.