Police forensic expert testifies in Afrasheem murder trial
11 Jul 2013, 2:25 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
A police forensic expert has testified in court that he found the DNA of three individuals on jeans worn by Hussain Humam, the main suspect in the murder of MP Dr Afrasheem Ali.
Local media reported today at the hearing that the forensic expert told the judge that one of these DNA samples matched a the DNA sample of taken from Dr Afrasheem.
He told the court that the second DNA sample obtained matched that of Humam himself. He did not say whether the third sample was identified.
The expert told the judge that the chance of the DNA sample not being Dr Afrasheem was one in 9.8 billion and the chance of Humam’s DNA sample being wrong was one in 1.4 billion.
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