MASSEREENE TRIAL. ANCORA CONTESTAZIONI SULLE PROVE DEL DNA

Massereene DNA evidence questioned (Belfast Telegraph)
DNA linking a man to the killing of two soldiers may have been transferred unwittingly, a court has heard.
An expert connected a sample from the inside of a mobile phone found in a car used in the attack to one of the accused.
Colin Duffy and Brian Shivers, whose DNA was recovered from the Nokia, deny the murder of Sappers Mark Quinsey and Patrick Azimkar, who were shot outside their Army base in Antrim.
Defence barrister Patrick O’Connor QC said: “There has to be a real risk that some tiny quantities of DNA may have been transferred completely unwittingly from the exterior of this mobile phone and then appeared on the swabs which were taken from the back of the Sim card or the cavity inside the mobile phone.
“Unless the gloves were changed every time between the handling of the body of the phone and the external parts of the phone and battery and the SIM. Or there has to be a risk that that could happen.”
Aideen Coleman, a forensic scientist, said it was “possible”.
She added: “It is not an area where I would be an expert in DNA.”
Her job was to extract the material before it was sent for analysis to a lab in England.
Sappers Quinsey, 23, and Azimkar, 21, were shot dead by the Real IRA as they collected pizzas with comrades outside Massereene Army base in Antrim town in March 2009.
Duffy, 44, from Forest Glade in Lurgan, Co Armagh, and Shivers, 46, from Sperrin Mews, in Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, deny two charges of murder and the attempted murder of six others – three soldiers, two pizza delivery drivers and a security guard.

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