The inquiry into Queensland's state-run forensics lab has heard police DNA collection procedures could have affected the viability of samples in Shandee Blackburn's 2013 murder investigation. A ...

A fresh inquiry will be launched into Queensland's forensic DNA lab to investigate concerns about an automated DNA extraction method, Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has announced. The new inquiry ...

In a stunning admission to the inquiry into the catastrophic failings of Queensland’s state-run forensic laboratory, police say they were never told about a flawed process for testing crime scene ...

Commissioner Walter Sofronoff, who is overseeing a public inquiry into the lab, estimated about 400 DNA samples from sexual assault cases “went through to the keeper” between 2008 and 2016. “So there ...

The managing scientist at a Queensland DNA lab at the centre of an inquiry has been accused of deliberately misleading police. Managing scientist Cathie Allen faced a second gruelling day of ...

A state-run laboratory initially refused to test a number of possible samples from Queensland murder and sexual assault cases that later returned ‘full profiles’, a senior police officer has told a ...

Headed by recently retired Court of Appeal president Walter Sofronoff, the inquiry is examining whether there have been ­errors or failings in the collection, testing and analysis of forensic DNA ...

A scientist at a scandal-plagued lab has given evidence at an inquiry into DNA testing in Queensland as to why the process was changed. Allan McNevin told a commission of inquiry into the testing of ...

Security officials censored a submission to the Covid Inquiry which highlighted the failure of intelligence agents to gather evidence which points to the virus having originated in a laboratory in ...

Inspector David Neville’s team at the Queensland Police Service received a result from the Queensland Health forensic lab that said 33 DNA samples had returned with a result of “insufficient for ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from QLD News. Followed categories will be added to My News. A second commission of inquiry into the catastrophic bungles at the state-run lab this week heard how ...