Re: First DNA profile false "match" in Germany

paul nutteing declarait :

> First DNA profile false "match" in Germany

> Unlike Raymond Easton or Peter Hamkin in the UK this
> person in Germany had a unimpeachable alibi
> concerning his wherabouts.
> Anyone know of a German legal/law usenet group?

> source
> http://213.159.10.102/germany.asp?pad0,205,&item_id1550
> Quote
> DNA mystery in murder probe
> 27 May 2003

> GOETTINGEN - German justice officials investigating a murder six years
ago
> are faced with a baffling problem after a DNA sample appeared to confirm
> the killer.

> The sample prosecutors found in connection with the murder fitted the DNA
> profile of a 40-year-old man. But their sole suspect had the perfect
alibi -
>  he was in jail at the time.

> "This is a very mysterious affair," admitted Hanover public prosecutor
> Thomas Klinge.

> The September 1997 murder of a 61-year-old woman, whose body was left on
a
> playground in Hanover after she had been beaten about the head with a
> stone, had baffled police for several years.

> But last year specialists achieved a breakthrough when they discovered
> small traces of DNA material on the victim's bicycle.

> A check of the BKA federal police department's DNA databank confirmed it
> matched the profile of a suspect with a previous record of violence and
> sexual offences.

> However, the man has been held at a high-security unit at Goettingen's
> closed mental health hospital since the middle of 1997.

> Officials at the unit have confirmed that it is absolutely secure.
Director
> Gunter Heinz said he was "100 per cent certain" the suspect could not
have
> left and returned.

> Klinge said there could be no doubt about the accuracy of the DNA sample
> which had been tested by several institutes. Neither was there any reason
> to believe the evidence had somehow appeared on the bicycle after the
> crime.

> But he added: "The alibi appears to be absolutely reliable, and we have
no
> knowledge the man has an identical twin brother."

> DPA

> End Quote

> These dangerous DNA profile databases should
> be destroyed before more lives are messed up

> DNA profiling and its implications
> http://www.nutteing.50megs.com/dnapr.htm
> or nutteing3 in a search engine

> regards
> Paul Nutteing,England
> e mail nutteing2@quickfindit.....com (just one dot)
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Is anyone aware of the original story concerning
the Goettingen prisoner in any German newspaper?

DNA profiling and its implications
http://www.nutteing.50megs.com/dnapr.htm
or nutteing3 in a search engine

regards
Paul Nutteing
e mail nutteing2@quickfindit.....com (just one dot)
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