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=== Axiom International and beyond === In 2010, Gallop helped found Axiom International, which provides forensic and related advice to law enforcement agencies worldwide. She is the firm's chief executive. She has since worked in Libya, Iraq, Somaliland, and Kosovo. To Gallop's dismay, the UK government closed the FSS in 2012 to save funds. According to Irish forensic scientist Niamh Nic Daéid, "some people in the business" blame Gallop for the demise of the FSS because she started a competing commercial alternative to it, but she thinks such conclusions are "a bit unfair". In Gallop's view, the FSS should have been "modernised and made properly commercial" rather than closed. In late 2021, Gallop met John Actie, one of five black and mixed-race men who had been wrongly accused of the murder of Lynette White. He had spent two years in prison when Gallop's findings proved his innocence. This was her first meeting with someone she helped exonerate and was filmed for a Channel 5 documentary. Gallop has reduced her involvement in frontline forensic work but has expressed an interest in taking on plenty of cold cases, including the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. In 2026 she was commissioned by Michael Stone's legal team to perform a forensic review of evidence in his case.
=== Other ventures === Gallop started writing to record her life's work and to highlight the lack of funding and recognition for forensic scientists. She detailed her early cases in a 2019 book titled When the Dogs Don’t Bark. A second book, How to Solve a Crime, came out in early 2022. She is careful about what she puts in her books and said that the inclusion of certain revealing elements of forensic technique "would make our job a lot more difficult". Gallop is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde.
=== Awards and honours === Between 2001 and 2004, Gallop was president of the Forensic Science Society and in 2011 was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by Nottingham Trent University, in recognition of her contribution to national and international forensic science in the support of justice. Gallop has served on the Independent Police Commission, chaired by Lord Stevens. Gallop was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire as part of the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours.
=== Popular culture === Angela Gallop is portrayed by actor Anastasia Hille in the 2021 TV miniseries titled The Pembrokeshire Murders. Gallop praised Hille's talent but lamented the lack of "lightness" and "passion" in the character, observing that scientists are not constantly "very serious and very considered". She has also said that the cooperation with the police was not always so "very well mannered" and straightforward. Gallop was also played by Nancy Carroll in the 2021 TV miniseries Stephen, a drama following the fight for justice for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence. Gallop was a guest on Desert Island Discs on 20 October 2022. Gallop appeared on the 2023 Paramount+ show Murder of God's Banker.
=== Bibliography === Gallop, Angela (2019). When the Dogs Don't Bark: A Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth. Hachette UK. ISBN 978-1473678866. Gallop, Angela (2022). How to Solve a Crime: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Forensics. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1529331363. Gallop, Angela (13 February 2020). "If the UK cares about justice, it must fund forensic services properly". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
== Personal life == Gallop lives with her two Siamese cats in rural Oxfordshire. She retains an interest in sea slugs. She has been married twice and has a son. Angela Gallop and Russell Stockdale separated in 2003 but remained close. He died in late 2021.
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