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B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder


Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal.

Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal. He said one of the samples obtained at the Newroz celebration came from a man named Shamdan Ali, and that RCMP lab testing showed he shared many genetic characteristics with the DNA of "Male 1," whose semen was found in the body. Ali's lawyers filed a notice of appeal on Dec. 11, which claimed the court "erred in its consideration of the defence abuse-of-process application in respect to the police collection of, and investigation into, the appellant's DNA."

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