http://media.www.theguardianonline.com/media/storage/paper373/news/2007/10/1
0/News/Professors.Expertise.Sought.In.European.Case-3021795.shtml

Professor's expertise sought in European case
Biology professor Dan Krane to offer DNA expertise in missing person case of
Madeleine McCann
David Montei
Issue date: 10/10/07 Section: News


Wright State University biology professor Dr. Dan Krane's name has recently
come to the public's attention for his involvement in the widely publicized
missing person case of Madeleine McCann, a four year-old British girl who
was abducted in Portugal in May.

According to Krane, he has been in contact with the McCann party as a
resource of expertise through the lawyers of Sean Hoey, a man convicted in
the U.K. to 58 consecutive life terms for his role in an NRA bombing in
which authorities used low copy DNA test results as evidence against the
defendant.

Krane served as a DNA expert for the defense in the Hoey case, the largest
case in the history of the U.K. in terms of media coverage, money spent on a
trial, amount of evidence taken, and the length of sentence upon conviction.

The parents of Madeleine McCann were named prime suspects by Portuguese
officials after a trace amount of the girl's DNA was discovered in the trunk
of a rental car that the parents had rented weeks after the child's
disappearance using tests performed by the Forensic Science Service (FSS); a
government owned DNA test company that works for profit, said Krane.

However, according to Krane, the DNA evidence is questionable at best as the
FSS uses what is known as low copy number DNA tests, a method that no lab
within the United States uses because of its invaluable nature in case
evidence.

"Where conventional can exclude a number of people automatically as possible
contributors to the DNA sample, low copy samples can't exclude anyone," said
Krane.

Further, the transferability of DNA means that the DNA found in the parent's
rental car could have been transplanted there by the parent's luggage or
from a number of other sources, not necessarily the child's body as has been
speculated.

"Low copy DNA testing may have a place in generating investigative leads,
but the difficulties in attaching any weight to their results should prevent
it from taking on the same role and significance as conventional DNA
testing," said Krane.

"I think that it is amazing that we have someone like (Krane) at Wright
State. I would never have guessed that we had professors that have been used
as DNA experts in such high-profile cases worldwide," said junior Mindy
Davis, an English major.

Dr. Krane will arrive in Belfast, N. Ireland on Wednesday to perform a DNA
workshop at Queens University for the Criminal Bar Association. Krane will
also meet with BBC News Night, the British equivalent to 60 Minutes, where
he will be interviewed about his role in the Hoey case.

Members of the Dutch media have also requested an interview to discuss DNA
and he will meet with the Supreme Court of the Netherlands to discuss a
statement he had submitted for a case.

Krane also expects that the McCann case will be the subject in many
conversations during his travels as it continues to be at the forefront of
many news stories throughout the world.


ps
What they aren't telling you about DNA profiles
and what Special Branch don't want you to know.
http://www.nutteing.chat.ru/dnapr.htm
or nutteingd in a search engine.

Valid email nutteing@fastmail.....fm (remove 4 of the 5 dots)
Ignore any other apparent em address used to post this message -
it is defunct due to spam.

On Oct 10, 6:05 pm, "Paul Nutteing (valid email address in post
script )"  wrote:

Put this together with the current crop of low DNA cold cases
currently before the public and going to trial and begin to wonder
whats going on in the UK indeed, not one to push the Castree case but,
it seems to me that Plod is going to convict aguy on low DNA results,
then contrasts that case against of one of there own when Dick Holland
fabricated a whole confession and got off because (his) memory was
said to fail over time and he would not be able to remember.

hell the fucking confession was there in black and white.....but plod
got off

Fabricating DNA and confessions and other physical evidence is of
course routine for UK plod in West yorkshire.