Mr Stephens has worked solely as a forensic scientist
since 1989. During this period he has been involved in ongoing research
projects both in house and in conjunction with local universities. Mr
Stephens also supervises student projects, in to areas of document and
handwriting analysis, related to both BSc and MSc degrees in forensic
science. He has studied thousands of hand-written and machine generated
documents together with forged driving licences, passports, bank notes
and other forged documents. He has been invited as a guest speaker to
lecture on his work with documents on various occasions including to
the Forensic Science Society. He has also lectured on courses in Forensic
Document Analysis at Universities in the UK and the USA. He has also
given evidence and been accepted in both civil and criminal courts as
an expert witness. He has worked on the instructions of solicitors,
insurance companies, trade unions, chartered accountants, health authorities,
professional associations, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Probation
Service, Police Forces and other private companies and individuals in
the UK, Middle East, Africa and the USA.
He has been thanked by the Home Office Forensic Science
Service, Document section, for demonstrating a new Microscopical technique
for document analysis. This technique formed the basis of a lecture
that Mr Stephens was invited to give at the Royal Society, London.
Mr Stephens has worked on cases varying from the Michael
Sams murder case, to international fraud cases involving tens of millions
of pounds.