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IPOH: No semen traces were found on the clothing, mop and mattress sent for analysis to the Chemistry Department, the High Court heard during the rape trial of Tronoh assemblyman Paul Yong.
View Comments Constance Swander began her career as a serologist back when blood samples had to be tested by hand and results took days instead of hours. After a half-century in laboratories around the state and advances in forensic science playing an ever-widening role in crime solving, she's preparing to hang up her lab coat on Tuesday. It has been, she said, a real-life game of Clue, with flesh-and-blood suspects instead of Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet. She's analyzed evidence from crime scenes and has testified more than 300 times as an expert witness on cases ranging from mu...
MSP Newsroom Grayling Laboratory Director to Retire after 35 Years with the State Police May 3, 2021 Grayling Laboratory Director Connie Swander kicked off her career with the Michigan State Police (MSP) having already spent 18 years as a medical technologist in the private sector. More than three decades later, most of her original MSP colleagues hung up their white coats years ago. Half of the staff she now manages weren't born when she began working at the laboratory. "I love this job. I've worked with and for some great people," said Swander. "That's the hardest thing about retiring and p...
Karachi April 7, 2021 A father of three was shot dead when he came to the rescue of a mugging victim in Sector 9/E of Orangi Town on Tuesday. Police said armed men riding on a motorcycle were looting 60-year-old Waheed and beat him up when he resisted. When the citizen raised a hue and cry for help, a 38-year-old labourer, Rashid, came out of his nearby factory. Seeing this, the suspects opened fire at him, injuring him critically. They also injured Waheed by hitting him with a pistol. A large number of residents gathered on the spot and transported the casualties to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital,...
Financial constraints and the Covid-19 pandemic are the reasons for the police's National Forensic Science Laboratories shortages leading to a backlog.