
DNA from crime scenes: Saliva, hair, blood to be used to identify murderers, rapists, others in Lagos
In a recent judgment, a Lagos High Court threw out a criminal case involving the rape of a three-year-old girl on the grounds that the girl was not violated because there was no strong evidence to link the man that was charged with the said crime. In the end, the accused person was discharged and acquitted, but the victim and her family were left to continue to contend with the consequences of the crime.