Stung by what he perceived to be a silly line of questioning by the prosecution, Australian DNA expert Dr Brian McDonald snapped at Solicitor General II Yusof Zainal Abiden, who kept questioning him on how sodomy complainant Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s sperm cells had made their way into his rectum.“The swab never came from his ass,” McDonald told the court hearing the sodomy charges pressed by Prime Minister Najib Razak against Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
“The DNA evidence does not tell us that there is no semen from the complainant on that swab ... or the swab never went near his ass.”
McDonald said the available DNA evidence could not show how it could have happened, pointing out that the physical impossibility suggested that the swabs may not be genuine.
Dr McDonald explained he had no idea if the samples analyzed and reported by government scientists were genuinely taken from Saiful’s posterior. He said he could only tell what he knows based on what was recorded.-Malaysian chronicle
2.20pm: Court resumes.
McDonald shows Seah's testimony in which she said the Petaling Jaya lab is accredited by ISO17025.
"I interpret it that Seah said Malaysia lab is accredited with ISO17025. She has not corrected it, anyway."
2.24pm: Yusof says Seah testified that the PJ lab was accredited with ESCLAP in 2005.
Yusof: Where is it did she say it is certified by ISO17025? When she gave evidence, she testified as head of forensics?
McDonald: The question was put and she said '17025'. If it was only accredited by ISO9000, then she should have said ISO9000.
2.34pm: Yusof suggests McDonald is making an inference.
McDonald says he may have made assumptions.
2.36pm: Yusof says there is a report that there was a question whether the lab had been accredited internationally.McDonald says the ISO9000 is one certification and 17000 series is another.more to come
2.42pm: Yusof asks what it is that Seah did not do.
McDonald says she did not do the slides as required.
2.48pm: Yusof asks whether Seah had said there was no degradation.
McDonald says not all samples were pristine.
Yusof says all newspapers reported the samples as being pristine.
2.53pm: McDonald says Seah said there was no degradation.
2.56pm: Yusof points to Seah's answer that there was a slight degradation but not sufficient to destroy the DNA, which is readable.
McDonald says he disagrees.
3pm: McDonald says the degradation may not be that severe. McDonald says there is no evidence of degradation.
3.13pm: McDonald says for the second time that Yusof is misleading the court, as Seah was trying to evade the question in her testimony.
3.15pm: Yusof asks McDonald where the questions to Seah are that shows degradation.
McDonald points to a number of questions that purported to show degradation. But Yusof disagrees, as the question refer to Saiful's underwear.
"What you are trying to do is mislead," McDonald tells Yusof.
3.21pm: Yusof asks McDonald to show evidence of degradation, so McDonald shows the graph showing there is degradation.
3.28pm: McDonald alleges Seah has not shown her computation data, and the prosecution has also failed to show the data.
3.30pm: McDonald says there is no evidence of degradation in some of the samples in B7, high rectal swab.
3.40pm: McDonald says Seah was wrong, because after 48 hours in room temperature, none of the cells would be alive.
3.50pm: Yusof asks McDonald to look at B7, B8 and B9 swabs at the male fraction.
3.54pm: McDonald says you can exclude Male Y, but it appears in all samples.Court adjourns to 9am tomorrow.
source:malaysiakini
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