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20 May 2013 Last updated at 11:49 ET

Police in England and Wales have taken DNA samples from children every 10 minutes, figures obtained using freedom of information requests suggest.

The Howard League for Penal Reform said officers taking 120,000 DNA swabs during 2010 and 2011 was "excessive".

Police said samples were taken from victims and witnesses and in paternity cases as well as from suspects.

But the Howard League argued that "overwhelmingly" the children were suspects, not victims.

The Howard League, which submitted freedom of information requests to every police service in England and Wales, said officers took DNA swabs from almost 54,000 children in 2011, including swabs from at least 368 10-year-olds and 1,030 11-year-olds.

It should be an extraordinary intervention for police to take the DNA from a child

On average, officers therefore took samples from 27 primary school-aged children each week. Overall, the samples were mainly taken from boys, who accounted for about 70% of the swabs.

Howard League chief executive Frances Crook said: "When public money is tight and police forces are shrinking, it is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources being wasted on taking DNA samples from thousands of innocent children while serious offences go undetected.

"Children who get into trouble with the police are usually just up to mischief."

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Evan Ebel (credit: Department of Corrections)

DENVER (CBS4) CBS4 has learned that DNA lifted from a payphone mouthpiece and fingerprints on the phone are some of the key evidence that ties Evan Ebel to the murder of 27-year-old Nathan Leon, a father of three.

Denver police have long said they are confident that Ebel killed Leon March 17, but have never provided details of their investigation that connect Ebel to the murder. Now three law enforcement contacts familiar with the Leon killing have provided CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass with some of the clues linking Ebel to the shooting death of Leon.

The contacts say that Ebel initially called a Dominos Pizza restaurant near 40th and Colorado Boulevard to have a pizza delivered, but that he wanted the delivery to an intersection, not a specific address. Thats apparently against the pizza companys rules and they rejected Ebels initial delivery order.

Dominos has declined to discuss specifics of the Ebel case. Sources say there was then a second conversation between Ebel and the Dominos restaurant, and in that second conversation he provided a street address near 50th and Forest Street and Leon was dispatched to the address, which is located in a desolate industrial section of North Denver.

Nathan Collin Leon (credit: Facebook)

The law enforcement sources say that investigators later determined that Ebel called the pizza restaurant from a payphone located at or near a truck stop in North Denver. Investigators traced the payphone call that had been made to Dominos, determining it had originated from a specific payphone located at or near the truck stop in North Denver. The sources indicated the area had been under police surveillance due to criminal activity in the area, and they also obtained surveillance videotape showing Ebel on the phone, placing the pizza order.

Nathan Collin Leon (credit: Facebook)

Investigators were able to return to that specific phone and extract Ebels DNA and fingerprints from the phone. Since Ebel had been a Colorado prison inmate, they apparently already had samples of his DNA on file for comparison purposes, leading to the match.

Two of the law enforcement sources also say that police obtained videotape from numerous locations between Denver and Golden that shows Ebels vehicle traveling from Denver to Golden, which is where Leon was killed and his body was dumped. He had been shot twice. Law enforcement sources say Leon was alive during the drive from Denver to Golden and that Ebel murdered him after they arrived in Golden.

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Under-10s are below the age of criminal responsibility, but police say the figures include those who are victims of crime or from whom the DNA is taken to rule them out as suspects.

The Home Office claim that the practice is crucial in the fight against crime.

However, Frances Crook, the chief executive of the Howard League, said that it showed children were being treated as hardened criminals.

She said: When public money is tight and police forces are shrinking, it is disappointing to see valuable crime-fighting resources being wasted on taking DNA samples from thousands of innocent children while serious offences go undetected.

Children who get into trouble with the police are usually just up to mischief. Treating so many like hardened criminals by taking their DNA seems excessive.

We welcome the Government's decision to stop storing innocent people's DNA indefinitely, but it remains unclear how this will affect the number of children having their DNA taken needlessly.

During 2011, 53,974 DNA samples were taken from children by forces in England and Wales, including 368 ten-year-olds and 1,030 11-year-olds.

The total is down on 2010, when nearly 70,000 samples from under 18s were taken by police.

This year new rules will come into effect which mean that any child convicted of a serious crime such as a sexual or violent attack, burglary or terrorism will have their DNA profile held indefinitely, as will under 18s who are convicted of two minor crimes.

However, child suspects arrested over serious crimes but either not charged or cleared at trial will have their profiles deleted after five years, and police will be unable to hold profiles of those accused of minor offending who are not convicted.

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LONDON (Reuters) - Bankers are putting together just under 1 billion euros $1.28 billion (839.83 million pounds) in financing for a potential sale of Finnish mobile phone company DNA , banking sources familiar with the situation said on Monday.

Swiss bank UBS , financial adviser to DNA, sent out information memorandums to prospective buyers earlier this month on the deal, which could fetch around 1.

The first round of an auction process for DNA's sale is expected in June and Swedish buyout firms EQT and Nordic Capital are likely to submit bids as are at least two other private equity firms including BC Partners and Cinven, bankers said.

EQT, Nordic Capital, BC Partners and Cinven declined to comment. DNA was not immediately available to comment.

If the sale goes through this could provide some evidence of a revival in European M&A activity, which has been depressed this year because of the weak economic climate.

A number of deals have floundered due to buyers and sellers being too far apart on price. A sale of Swedish bedmaker Hilding Anders, for example, might not go ahead after bids were lower than the seller's expectations.

Loans for leveraged buyouts fell by 47 percent to $3.6 billion during the first quarter from the same period last year, Thomson Reuters LPC data shows.

DNA is controlled by companies that were previously local phone carriers in Finland. The largest shareholder is Finda Group, which owns close to 33 percent. The Finnish mobile market is fiercely competitive, with pressure on prices and sales. DNA's larger rival Elisa last month cut its 2013 outlook.

A listing for up to half of DNA shares on the Helsinki stock exchange, allowing owners to sell part of their holdings, is also an option.

UBS (Xetra: UB0BL6 - news) has put together a so-called staple debt financing package of just under 1 billion euros for any possible buyers of DNA, bankers said. This is equivalent to around 5 times DNA's 2012 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of 191 million euros.

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