00:02It's a familiar story.
00:04Morning, morning.
00:05Failures at Forensic Science Queensland.
00:08It's not ideal.
00:10Simple typos in dates and file numbers
00:13in statements from scientists to police
00:15dating back to 2023, prompting a major audit.
00:20Protocols have been put in place and all cases are being reviewed.
00:24As a police officer prepared hundreds of briefs,
00:26it's not unusual to see transcription errors,
00:29but FSQ can't afford to have those sort of errors happen.
00:33We need to be better.
00:34The mistake was sensationally first discovered by a scientist
00:38as he was giving evidence in court.
00:40More than 900 statements need to be audited.
00:44Around a third have been checked
00:46with an approximate 15% error rate.
00:50600 are outstanding.
00:52Those checked haven't compromised any criminal trials.
00:56But there are questions over if the outstanding ones
01:00could impact cases including rape and murder.
01:04It would be impossible for me to say no, of course.
01:06The troubled lab has been the subject of two commissions of inquiry
01:10revealing failures in testing and cultural issues.
01:14Top forensic scientist Dr Kirsty Wright
01:17quietly left her role six months early in May
01:21after being appointed to implement hundreds of recommendations.
01:25Why she quit is unclear, as is progress on the reforms.
01:30Deb Frecklington promised that she was going to fix the DNA lab
01:35and yet her handpicked advisor has walked off the job halfway through.
01:40Dr Wright chose to end her contract.
01:43She remains in close contact with me.
01:46The review is expected to take up to a month.
01:48The review is expected to take up to a month.
01:48The review is expected to get a month.
01:49The review is expected to take up to a month.
01:50What's the review is expected to do?
01:50The review is expected to take up to a month.
01:50and it will be checked up to a month.
01:51You
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