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Massereene Trial: il DNA “potrebbe essere di Shivers”

DNA on Massereene car ‘could be from Shivers’

Massereene Barracks - Vauxhall Cavalier
DNA profiles uncovered on two burnt matches and a mobile phone found inside the car used by the men who murdered two soldiers could have come from Brian Shivers a judge heard yesterday.

Belfast Crown Court judge Mr Justice Deeny also heard evidence that a DNA profile uncovered on a single match found beside the partially burnt out Vauxhall Cavalier had component parts consistent with Shivers’ profile but that a forensic scientist could not confirm whether it was his or not.

Shivers, from Sperrin Mews, in Magherafelt denies the murders of Sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, from Birmingham, and 21-year-old Londoner, Patrick Azimkar who were gunned down in a deadly ambush outside Massereene Barracks on March 7, 2009.

Shivers also denies the attempted murder of two other soldiers who were seriously wounded along with two civilian drivers delivering pizzas to the base and possessing a firearm.

The gunmen made their escape in a Vauxhall Cavalier which was found partially burnt out and the court has heard how two burnt matches and a mobile phone were found inside the car and crime scene investigators also found a partially burnt match outside the car.

Giving evidence at the Diplock, no-jury trial yesterday, a senior forensic scientist said he had conducted tests on all of the items to ascertain if there was any DNA profiles on them.

Taking the two matches uncovered inside the Vauxhall Cavalier, he told the senior prosecutor that he found a DNA profile which matched Shivers’ and that the likelihood of it having come from a person unrelated to him was “less than one in one billion”.

A DNA profile from swabs taken from the phone, the scientist told the court, matched Shivers’ DNA.

The trial continues.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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