The destruction of the swabs is also likely to hamper a forensictechnique that has been successfully applied in the UK, known as familial searching, said Dr Maguire.
Less than a month after I mentioned a new fingerprinting technique using electrostatic charges, forensic scientist Dr. Xanthe Spindler of the University of Technology Sydney in Australia has announced a wildly different new fingerprinting technique.
The FSS was apparently applying the new LCN technique in a different way, meaning its scientists may have missed DNA evidence that other private forensic laboratories could have identified.