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Handprint or footprint?

At the Zadorov trial, we discussed the unidentified bloodstain found at the scene of the murder of Tair Rada

The mobile police lab officer who was at the scene of the murder of the girl claimed that the blood mark, one of three unidentified stains found at the scene, appeared to him at all as a handprint - contrary to the defense's claim that it may be the shoe of an unidentified killer.

Defense counsel attacked the witness: "Something happened to him in the refresher with the prosecution"

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• Tair Rada

• Roman Zdorov

Eli Ashkenazi

Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 15:20 Updated: 15:25

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In the video: the boss of Zdorov, Zdorov and Ilana Rada in the retrial (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)

In the retrial of Roman Zadorov, for the murder of the girl Tair Rada at a school in Katzrin in 2006, a mobile police laboratory officer who arrived at the murder scene testified today (Tuesday) that one of the unidentified blood marks found at the scene looked more like a handprint than a footprint.

This is in contrast to the defense's thesis that the unidentified blood mark may be the trace of another killer's shoe.

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Zdorov in the Nazareth District Court, a month ago (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)

The mobile police laboratory officer who came to testify, Corporal Shmuel Piamenta, was one of the professionals who investigated at the murder scene, the night after the body was discovered in the toilet cubicle at the Katzrin school. services nearby - the third cell. the spot was claimed that the shoe print Unspecified called the officer "bloodstain", and said that in his opinion the stain even seem handprint.

this is considerable evidence, from the murder scene were three blood stains set up today footprints are not shoes Of the defendant, Roman Zdorov, and do not belong to any of the people who were at the scene of the murder after the body was found.Therefore, the defense claims that it was following shoes on the exit route of a non-Zdorov killer.

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"This blood stain, it's not for nothing that we called it a blood stain. We also thought it was a handprint," Piamenta said.

If this is indeed a handprint, then it can be reconciled with the defendant's recovery of his way out of the cell.

Defense counsel, Adv. Yarom Halevi, expressed bewilderment that in the past the witness did not state this detail, and slammed him in the cross-examination that "something happened to him in the refresher with the prosecutor's office.

"Talk to you and remind you of the pictures that 'it could be a hand'." He added that it was difficult for the witness.

"I'm sorry you're blaming me and the prosecution, there was no such thing," Piamenta replied.

"My gloves were contaminated with blood too"

In his testimony, Piamenta also addressed another major issue: the likelihood of blood dripping from the body a few hours after the murder.

This is a significant issue because if indeed the blood continued to leak, then blood flow could not be ruled out then leaked on a heel that was discovered on the toilet.

The defense claims that blood can only leak from the body near the murder and therefore the drop of blood that leaked, which does not belong to Zadorov, proves that the trace was formed very close to the murder and therefore it allegedly belongs to an undetected killer.

The witness noted that the puddle of blood at the murder scene "was not in complete coagulation. Smooth [was] liquid. When we went in and out, even with the ankles, we made a transfer of the blood stain," he said.

This suggests that one of the rescuers, who has not been located to date, is the one who left blood marks unknown to whom they belong.

Piamenta recalled that when he passed the body "her clothes were soaked in blood, some was clotted but there were certain places, hair and coat that the clothes were still wet. My gloves were also contaminated with blood".

Tair Rada (Photo: Ginny)

Tair Rada was murdered inside a toilet cubicle at Nofei Golan School in Katzrin on December 6, 2006. Almost three years later, the Nazareth District Court convicted Roman Zdorov, a foreign citizen and resident of Katzrin, of murdering the girl.

The verdict set aside a dense fabric of evidence that led to his conviction.

Since then, however, the affair has continued to occupy the media and public opinion, and despite the firm verdict - the justice system has discussed it several more times and left the conviction intact.

Zdorov, who worked in flooring at Rada's school, was arrested several days after the murder, confessed to the murder and even remarried.

He then retracted his confession, and as the trial progressed the defense was able to raise doubts among the public that Zadorov was indeed the killer.

Last summer, Supreme Court Justice Hanan Meltzer ruled that a retrial should be held for him, which did open in October.

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