The retrial in the murder case of Tair Rada, centered on Roman Zadorov, continued today (Tuesday) in the Nazareth District Court.
Dr. Maya Freund, who was the director of the forensic biology labs, went up to the witness stand and said, "A lot of tests sampled in the arena have been thrown over the years."
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10:30:
Witness Freund: "In this case, in terms of DNA, there were about 600 exhibits, while in a standard case there are 30-25 exhibits. I try to explain what has been described as a kind of malfunction. When there was no breakthrough, there was no DNA evidence that could bind one of the suspects. We decided to do something unusual, took the rest shirt, tank top and model, and of course found blood of the rest. "P in Jerusalem to identify Y profile.
"There was no chance of seeing female blood, but if there was male blood, by the method of quantification that was in the forgery, it was possible to identify a Y profile, male, and then it was possible to send to the US for a more comprehensive examination, but no such was identified. Individual of maybe half profile Y. We sent it to USA and no reply was received. Two years later, when the case was finished, I received from Jerusalem a pile of test tubes that I had opened and identified 60 samples with an extract of the shirt that arrived unrefrigerated, some were dry and some had a quantity of micrograms or two. "Because it was not shown to me, I decided to throw them away."
10:15 a.m .:
Witness Freund went up to the podium and said: When the defense came to the retrial, they were looking for DNA under their nails. Producing it by rinsing. We could not produce anything there except the DNA of the deceased.
"We also sent them to Jerusalem to try to produce Y DNA without success. When the defense searched, the samples of the material under the nails were not found. It could be my fault, but it could be that some of the samples from those 60 test tubes were also the samples under the nails."
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