FORENSIC SCIENTISTS in Mauritius were unable to find any DNA profile relating to any other person on Michaela McAreavey’s body or the clothes she was wearing when she was killed, the trial heard.
Akiza Mooradun from the Mauritian forensic science services told the court she carried out tests on swabs taken from Ms McAreavey’s neck and two other locations.
She said the results produced only a genetic match that was likely to be hers.
Ravi Rutnah, junior defence counsel for one of the defendants, Avinash Treebhoowoon, was critical of the forensic report, claiming it was not detailed enough.
“This is not proper scientific analysis,” he said.
Ms Mooradun responded: “From my point of view this report is complete.”
Samples from a number of items recovered from the crime scene and swabs from Ms McAreavey were sent to Cellmark Forensic Services in the UK for specialist tests to see whether DNA traces had been deposited by touch.
Earlier this week, Cellmark scientist Susan Woodroffe told the court no matches with the two defendants were identified.
She found a number of unidentified DNA components in the swabs, but these were too weak, complex or incomplete to provide a meaningful profile. She suggested DNA could have washed off the body when it was placed in a partly filled bath.
While Ms Woodroffe found no matches from the two accused men on the samples she tested, she did identify a potential match with Dassen Narayanen, a third hotel employee, on a key card for the room.
