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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 forensic scientist at a state-run lab formally raised concerns about the testing of DNA samples from major crimes twice but was dismissed by management, an inquiry has heard. Reporting scientist ...

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 ...

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 ...