Two senior staff of Queensland forensic lab stood down immediately in wake of DNA testing scandal
abc.net.au/news/dna-lab-employees-stood-down-queensland/101461080Two senior staff members at Queensland's state-run forensic crime laboratory have been stood down amid a damning interim report that found the lab had issued "untrue" or "misleading" statements to courts.
Asked why the department decided to take this action, Ms Palaszczuk replied: "You'd have to ask the director-general, but he has taken very swift action."Walter Sofronoff KC's interim findings, released by the government yesterday That was because additional testing of DNA samples could have led to partial or full DNA being detected in some cases.
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