Abstract
Foot impressions, although less frequently when compared with footwear impression, are still found at crime scenes, often in offences such as burglaries, robberies and homicides since offenders often tend to remove their footwear either to avoid noise or to gain better grip in climbing walls, etc, while entering or exiting. Furthermore, in many Asian countries there are people who still have the habit of walking barefoot. It has been indicated that the length of the foot can be useful in estimating the height of the individual. Scientific estimation of stature from the dimensions of the foot has considerable value in forensic investigation in developing descriptions of the suspect while profiling or while corroborating height estimates of the suspects obtained from witnesses. This pilot study, the first of its kind in Malaysia, deals with developing a regression equation for stature estimation from foot length obtained from the foot impressions as well as foot outline of 107 randomly selected and consenting Malay subjects using a simple linear regression statistical method.
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