A rape case has collapsed after LGC, a private forensic provider in England and Wales admitted that the DNA evidence had become ‘too contaminated’ to be used in evidence. Discovery of the contamination had led to calls for perhaps hundreds of convictions based upon forensic evidence to be reviewed. Read more here…

Forensics blunder ‘may endanger convictions’

UPDATE: This is headline news in the UK – read more on the fallout here….

Forensics firm investigated over DNA blunder in rape case

and here….

Probe after forensics contamination leads to trial collapse

and a video from Channel 4 news here…

 Serious conviction reviewed after forensics blunder.