‘Male Y’ DNA profile tainted, Sodomy II trial told
(The Malaysian Insider) – A local scientist had flubbed a crucial DNA profiling test that the prosecution had used to link Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to a charge of sodomising his former aide, an Australian DNA expert told the High Court today.
The defence team’s fourth witness, Dr Brian McDonald, said government chemist Nor Aidora Saedon had made a major miscalculation in her test that had led to Anwar being wrongly marked as “Male Y” whose DNA profile was allegedly found in complainant Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s anus.
“What you have is evidence of a mixture of profiles. She reported them as a single profile,” Dr McDonald told the court.
He said she had messed up a fundamental guideline on how to perform the DNA profiling test, which gave her the wrong reading.
The opposition leader’s sodomy trial was given an indepth review of DNA analysis, including a deeply detailed explanation of how to mark and read the results.
“If these were tests done in school, she’d have failed them,” he told an amused court.
