[h=1]SHANE TODD CASE: SG AUTHORITIES DESTROYED CRUCIAL DNA EVIDENCE[/h]
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26 Jul 2014 - 10:37pm
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The death of American engineer, Shane Todd, was surrounded by mystery and controversy after his body was discovered hanging from his bathroom door in his Singapore apartment in June 2012.
The death was treated as a suicide by Singapore authorities and this was the conclusion after an extended inquiry into the matter.
However, the Todd family continues to insist that their son was murdered and the whole suicide story was a cover up.
Now, it would appear that the Todds' last hopes of proving it was a murder have been destroyed as two key pieces of evidence have been destroyed by Singapore authorities.
The Singapore Police report revealed that the rope that was used to hang Shane Todd's neck and the towel wrapped around his body had DNA of two unidentified people but no further investigations were done into these two DNA samples.
The Todds, through their lawyers here, had repeatedly asked the authorities for these two pieces of evidence which were seized.
However, despite the items belonging to the Todd family, the Singapore authorities, had claimed that it was "standard procedure" to take and destroy items used in a suicide.
The Todds recently received confirmation from the Singapore authorities that the two items have already been destroyed.
The Todds had suspected that their son's death was actually a murder as Dr Todd was working on a project under the Singapore Institute of Microelectronics, involving Chinese company Huawei. It was reported that he was working on a gallium nitride based semiconductors amplifier, which was declare to be a threat to US national security.
However, both companies involved deny that there was such a project and co-workers also testified during the inquiry that that project never completed the negotiation phase.
In any case, it would appear that the Singapore Police's lack of investigation into the DNA samples and then the Singapore authorities' subsequent destruction of the two pieces of evidence means that the Todds have little chance of ever proving their son's death was actually murder.
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The death of American engineer, Shane Todd, was surrounded by mystery and controversy after his body was discovered hanging from his bathroom door in his Singapore apartment in June 2012.
The death was treated as a suicide by Singapore authorities and this was the conclusion after an extended inquiry into the matter.
However, the Todd family continues to insist that their son was murdered and the whole suicide story was a cover up.
Now, it would appear that the Todds' last hopes of proving it was a murder have been destroyed as two key pieces of evidence have been destroyed by Singapore authorities.
The Singapore Police report revealed that the rope that was used to hang Shane Todd's neck and the towel wrapped around his body had DNA of two unidentified people but no further investigations were done into these two DNA samples.
The Todds, through their lawyers here, had repeatedly asked the authorities for these two pieces of evidence which were seized.
However, despite the items belonging to the Todd family, the Singapore authorities, had claimed that it was "standard procedure" to take and destroy items used in a suicide.
The Todds recently received confirmation from the Singapore authorities that the two items have already been destroyed.
The Todds had suspected that their son's death was actually a murder as Dr Todd was working on a project under the Singapore Institute of Microelectronics, involving Chinese company Huawei. It was reported that he was working on a gallium nitride based semiconductors amplifier, which was declare to be a threat to US national security.
However, both companies involved deny that there was such a project and co-workers also testified during the inquiry that that project never completed the negotiation phase.
In any case, it would appear that the Singapore Police's lack of investigation into the DNA samples and then the Singapore authorities' subsequent destruction of the two pieces of evidence means that the Todds have little chance of ever proving their son's death was actually murder.
