Damning review exposes ongoing issues at Forensic Services Queensland, including failure to properly test sample from violent unresolved crime

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Queensland’s state forensic services laboratory has repeated an error which led to “one of the greatest failures of a justice system in the world”, affecting evidence in thousands of criminal cases including rapes and murders.

The latest testing failure was revealed in a review into Forensic Services Queensland released on Monday, which also found that hundreds of rape victims were waiting “over 12 months” for the lab to test rape kits, a process that should be completed “ideally within five days”.

Source: Guardian - World News