Seah as good as another chemist, Nor Aidora Saedon, perceived flakfollowing McDonald's row yesterday which they did not perform or follow established standards as good as standards in examining DNA samples submitted to them by a police.McDonald (right) had additionally questioned their methods in arriving during their conclusions, as good as queried their failure to embody certain procedures - such as ensuring a DNA samples were clean as good as but contaminants.
Among a unanswered questions, he noted, were a miss of justification to indicate where a tangible DNA samples came from, as good as how samples retrieved from Anwar's prosecution - Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan - could be in "pristine condition" when it was submitted some-more than 100 hours after a alleged sodomy act.
The Australian consultant additionally cannot pronounced he could not boot a probability of Saiful's own sperm being present in his anus based upon a findings.
It additionally stays to be seen either Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak as good as his mother Rosmah Mansor will take a mount this week as anticipated.
LIVE REPORTS
8.58am: PKR's Sungai Petani MP Johari Abdul is in court.
Also in justice have been declare Dr Brian McDonald, lawyers Sankara Nair as good as CV Prabhakaran as good as a group of prosecutors led by solicitor-general II Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden.9.10am: Anwar arrives with PKR president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail as good as multiform supporters. He shakes hands with Johari as good as sits subsequent to him.
9.18am: Court starts with High Court decider Justice Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah presiding. McDonald takes a stand. Defence warn Ram Karpal informs a justice which he has one some-more question to ask McDonald about an Australian case.
McDonald's report dated April 24, 2011 is noted as evidence.
9.21am: Cross-examination being accomplished by solicitor-general II Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden.
Yusof goes upon with a 2007 Australian box where a appellate justice had deserted a appeal.
Yusof says he will show McDonald is not an consultant despite progressing saying he was tender with a Australian credentials.
9.27am: Yusof says a world of DNA has modernized so much. Yusof claims a little of a credentials performed by McDonald have been obsolete.
9.30am: Yusof (right) asks either in 2002 McDonald was compulsory to attend any hearing programmes.
McDonald replie! s there is no grave research acceptance in a examination.
9.31am: McDonald says he is a approved NATA evaluator of debate labs for a ISO 17025 certification.
9.36am: Yusof continues to conflict McDonald's credentials as contained in his curriculum vitae.
Yusof asserts which McDonald's gift performed in 1992 is archaic due to a developments in a margin since.
9.41am: McDonald says he has not attende! d any de bate DNA contrast course.
Yusof: Have we been lerned formally? To interpret, to analyse?
McDonald: we am lerned rigourously as a scientist.
Yusof: Do we sight people?
McDonald: Yes, in all areas including interpretation.
9.45am: Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar arrives.
Yusof ask how McDonald had acquired his expertise, to which a Australian replies he worked in a field, did contrast as good as did analyses.
Yusof: When was a final time we conducted DNA testing?
McDonald explains which in 2004, "I would have conducted a little of them. Those have been now accomplished by robots now. we am a comparison scientist when those things have been accomplished by junior people as good as robots."
9.52am: Yusof says which in ISO 17025, they would visit as good as get to know a scientists as good as either they have a required qualifications.
"The scientist, as partial of a accreditation, a scientist Seah Lay Hong (right) as good as Nor Aidora (below), contingency consistently be tested," says Yusof.
McDonald replies in a negative.
He says usually comparison scientists have been usually allowed to appreciate results.
"They have to have a required qualification."
10.03am: McDonald says he does not know either a lab accreditation is conducted each dual years.
10.05am: McDonald says he did not conduct a tests in his 2004 lab in Australia, as it was accomplished by robots."I usually appreciate a results."
10.07am: PKR Youth chief Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Ak! in walks in.
Yusof now refers to a Brunei box where McDonald was hired. Yusof says a justice had not accepted a foreign expert's (McDonald) evidence, nonetheless a decider was tender with a government chemist.
"I don't know we am not here in a recognition contest," McDonald quips.
10.14am: McDonald says he disagrees which a Brunei box did not accept his evidence.
10.15am: Yusof asserts which McDonald gave justification upon DNA in a Brunei case, as good as which a Australian was not means to persuade a Brunei court.
McDonald says he does not know about that.
10.21am: Yusof now refers to an Australian box where he pronounced a justice thought McDonald lacked neutrality.
McDonald says which was a judge's opinion, but was not established as fact.
10.27am: Yusof refers McDonald to another box where a retrial was systematic as good as a decider had reservations about McDonald's testimony.
"The justice has issues of his credibility in this case."
Justice Zabidin allows McDonald to insist further.
10.34am: McDonald explains which upon appeal, a judges a! ccepted his evidence.
10.41am: McDonald reads from a divide of a same box where it was pronounced which he was a truthful declare as good as a jury should accept a evidence.
10.46am: Yusof reads from another box which describes McDonald as not an consultant witness.
Former Bukit Bintang MP-turned opposition part of Dr Lee Chong Meng walks in court.
10.59am: Yusof continues attacking McDonald's credibility as good as imagination by showing cases where a justice deserted or questioned his evidence.
11.03am: Yusof reads out from an article which pronounced McDonald does not have a required believe as good as education in molecular genetics or general believe of DNA, as good as which he relied upon journals to gain kno! wledge.< /p>
11.08am: McDonald says these have been statistical matters. He admits which he does not have an imagination in sub-population.
11.11am: McDonald says a little of a views voiced by a judges was a court's opinion.
11.16am: Yusof indicates which a prosecution has accomplished questioning upon McDonald's qualifications.
He wants to go into a subsequent subject of semen.
Yusof asks for a half-hour break. Justice Zabidin allows.
1! 2.04pm:< /strong> Trial resumes with Yusof cross-examining McDonald. He goes upon to bring multiform cases. McDonald says he has testified in 150 cases, as good as he cannot recollect all details.
12.08pm: Yusof says McDonald was hired by a defence. He asks McDonald to give reduced answers to his questions.
Yusof: Is this your area of expertise?
McDonald: Yes.
Yusof: You contingency be fair?
McDonald: Yes.
Yusof: You contingency not have a prediction?
McDonald: we do not fully assimilate it.
12.12pm: Yusof asks McDonald either he is an consultant to establish counts about semen found upon samples taken after 56 hours as good as since to chemist 48 hours later.
McDonald replies he is an expert.
12.17pm: Yusof refers McDonald to a 1982 biography which refers to a prolonged time after which sperm was still found.
"This is a reference, a one which is reported. Even in genitalia, it (sperm) can final for 120 hours," Yusof states.
12.24pm: Yusof shows McDonald a Thai-language journal, but a Australian consultant refuses to answer questios upon a make a difference since he cannot assimilate what is written.
Yusof: On arrogance which this article is true...!
"No," McDonald replies emphatically.
C V Prabhakaran: we object. We cannot ask based upon assumptions.
12.30pm: McDonald says there is no bottom value.
Yusof says a biography says semen can lasts in a vagina for 19 days.
McDonald: we can't determine because we cannot assimilate a (language) bottom (it is created in Thai).
12.36pm: Yusof asserts which based upon a journal, it is not unusual which one can find semen upon swab after it was retrieved after 113 hours.
The decider asks for break. The proceeding will continue during 2.30pm.
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