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From: "Martha" <>
Subject: FW: Great-grandmother's killer caught out by cigarette DNA
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:03:03 -0600

A Great Victory for the Good...!!!

FORENSIC DNA TESTING Catches A Killer

"GREAT-GRANDMOTHER'S KILLER CAUGHT OUT BY CIGARETTE DNA"

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12264007%2
55E30417,00.html



"A DISCARDED cigarette butt secretly picked up by police has forced a
man charged with the murder of a great-grandmother to change his plea to
guilty.

NSW Supreme Court judge Timothy Studdert yesterday ruled DNA collected
from the hand-rolled cigarette Clarence White smoked while in police
custody could be used in his trial for the murder of 81-year-old Phyllis
O'Brien. Immediately on hearing Justice Studdert's ruling, White, a
35-year-old father of 11, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty.

The DNA of Mrs O'Brien's likely killer had been collected by Katoomba
police from under her fingernails. "

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