Does having a twin mean you can commit the perfect crime? Twins share DNA which creates a headache for police who can narrow an offence down to two suspects, but have no idea which one committed the crime.
Identical twins share genes, most identifying marks and are always the same sex as they come from the same fertilized egg in the womb.
And often twins who get in trouble blame their sibling to try and make it harder for the police to convict them.
Some may throw their brother or sister under the bus to protect themselves, others as a team effort and some make up that they even have a twin.
MailOnline reveals some of the most famous cases where evils twins tried to escape justice by blaming their same-look sibling:
Javell Hall – tried to blame identical twin for stabbing
Javell Hall was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey, despite trying to blame his brother
In 2021, rapper Javell Hall tried to blame his identical twin for stabbing a new father in north London.
Rail worker Asante Campbell, 24, was stabbed to death by a group of men on an estate in Hendon on February 29, 2019.
Incriminating DNA evidence matching the profile of Javell Hall, then-18, was found on the sheath of a knife.
The attack took place through Mr Campbell’s car window as waited to meet a colleague.
When asked about the knife, Hall said: ‘I never touched that knife. If it’s not mine it must be his [twin brother’s].’
Hall was convicted of murder given a life sentence, with a minimum prison term of 19 years.
Dean Kaboleh – tried to blame his twin for vile sex act
Dean Kaboleh tried to claim his ‘big-eared brother’ was the man who masturbated in front of a child
In July 2023, a man tried to blame his twin brother for masturbating in front of a teenage boy whilst on a train at Birmingham New Street Station.
Dean Kaboleh, then 20, of Landsdowne Road in Handsworth, told police when interviewed that the disgusting sexual act was performed by his brother who he said has ‘bigger ears’.
The incident took place at around 10pm on Monday, May 1, last year.
Kaboleh approached the 17-year-old victim and tried to have a conversation with him. He then dropped his trousers and masturbated in front of the boy.
Adam Reynolds – blamed criminal twin for his robbery
Notorious offender Adam Reynolds tried to blame his equally notorious brother for a robbery
In 2022, Adam Reynolds was caught on a Ring doorbell camera sneaking into a home in Stoke-on-Trent.
When police confronted him with the evidence, he claimed it was his twin behind the burglary, the Stoke Sentinel reported.
Anton already had 62 convictions for 148 previous offences including three burglaries.
But his twin brother Corrie also had a lengthy criminal record.
The court heard that the porch was unlocked and Reynolds only took items of minimal value and did not go any further.
Reynolds was sentenced to 14 months behind bars, his offence having been aggravated by previous convictions.
Robert Mason – made up a twin to try and escape justice
Robert Mason blamed his crime on his non-existent twin brother
If you don’t have a twin brother to blame, make one up.
Robert Mason sexually touched a schoolboy and blamed it on his gay twin brother, who did not exist.
Mason, then-41, sat behind a 14-year-old on a bus from Newcastle-under-Lyme to Meir.
He then started poking his neck and stroking him under the shirt.
He was later confronted by the victim’s brother and Mason claimed it was his twin brother, The Metro reported.
A court heard Mason told the victim: ‘I am sick of him doing it. He is always doing it.’
Ben Quilter – blamed twin for appalling bus crime
Ben Quilter had to own up to blaming his brother Sam for smoking a crack-pipe on a bus
In 2012, a man admitted blaming his twin brother for crimes he had committed.
Ben Quilter of Banstead was accused of showing his genitals to a schoolgirl on a Sutton bus in 2011.
He was arrested and when questioned by police, he said it was his twin brother Sam Quilter who was on the bus and not him, Your Local Guardian reported.
Sam Quilter told police he was at his partner’s house a the time of the alleged incident.
Ben Quilter said: ‘I have got a twin brother who is always getting nicked. He always blames it on me and vice versa.’
Ben Quilter then admitted he was smoking his crack-pipe and hiding the drugs in his trousers, but he denied exposing himself.
CCTV footage showed Mr Quilter was smoking drugs on the bus.
Gavin and Rhys Higgins – found not guilty after victim could not say which one attacked him
Twins Gavin and Rhys (blue tie) Higgins arriving at Cardiff Crown Court back in 2009
In one instance in Wales, even the defendant was confused by a set of twins.
Darryl Churchill accused a pair of identical twins of punching him in a rugby club, but he did not know which one had hit him.
One of the twins were alleged to have assaulted Mr Churchill, then 40, at a rugby club party in Blaengarw, Bridgend, BBC News reported.
Mr Churchill told the court it was one of the twins but he ‘did not know which one’.
He said one of the twins attacked him over a pool match involving one of the twins which Mr Churchill was refereeing.
The court heard he was punched and kicked and needed an operation to straighten his nose.
A jury unanimously found the twins not guilty of assaulting Mr Churchill after deliberating for less than an hour.
The Fox Brothers – pair of criminals both blamed each other
Albert and Ebenezer Fox were English poachers and identical twins known as the Twin Foxes
Using your twin to try to escape justice has been going on for centuries.
Born in 1857, twin brothers Albert Ebenezer Fox and Ebenezer Albert Fox became prolific poachers.
According to an article in Time Magazine, the brothers used their matching appearances to their advantage, often demanding compensation for convicting the wrong brother.
One would provide an alibi for the other or claim the wrong brother had been arrested.
The pair amassed around 200 convictions between them and created entertainment in courtrooms across the country as they would try and convince each judge that they were not the correct person for each crime.
