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The RCMP's National Forensic Laboratory removed an entire lot of test tubes from use after a tube with a hole in it was discovered during the processing of DNA samples in the Ibrahim Ali murder case, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard this week.
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Cornelia Naylor
Jul 27, 2023
'The RCMP's National Forensic Laboratory removed an entire lot of test tubes from use after a tube with a hole in it was discovered during the processing of DNA samples in the Ibrahim Ali murder case, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard this week.'
''Three DNA analysts who processed police exhibits at the RCMP lab in the case testified at the trial this week.
No direct links have yet been made between the exhibits and Ali or the girl.''
"In a batch of samples Ip worked on two days after the girl’s body was found in July 2017, one negative control, which should not have turned up any DNA, did, after being contaminated by a sample from another unrelated case.
Ip said the lab’s acting technical operations leader at the time confirmed the contamination but told her there was “no other contamination detected” and the results could be released to the reporting scientist.
Earlier in the week, Li had testified to a pin-sized hole being found in the bottom of one test tube she worked with in July 2021.
She said part of a sample of skin cell DNA leaked out, but the sample had already been analyzed and had been put into a new tube so it could be returned to police when that new tube was found to be defective.''
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