<table class="georgia11 whiteBg" width="620" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr> <td class="padlrt10">Oct 9, 2009
</td></tr> <tr> <td class="padlrt10"> 350 cases solved with DNA
</td></tr> <tr> <td class="padlrt10">Database started six years ago now has 100,000 samples</td></tr> <tr> <td class="padlrt10">
By Carolyn Quek </td></tr> <tr> <td class="marginbottom8 padlrt10">
FOR two years, Shashi Kumar Pubalasingam thought he had got away with raping a 69-year-old grandmother.
But he was eventually caught out by his own DNA sample in 2006, which he gave voluntarily to the police.
A task force was on the lookout for him after two other women were sexually assaulted in March that year.
The DNA of the perpetrator who attacked the two women matched that of the rapist of the grandmother, but the police did not know who the person was.
They looked through the records of 1,000 possible suspects and invited them to give samples.
Shashi, who was then 23 but had committed sexual offences as a juvenile, was one of them. He responded to the invitation to give his DNA, and they found a match.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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</td></tr> <tr> <td class="padlrt10"> 350 cases solved with DNA
</td></tr> <tr> <td class="padlrt10">Database started six years ago now has 100,000 samples</td></tr> <tr> <td class="padlrt10">
By Carolyn Quek </td></tr> <tr> <td class="marginbottom8 padlrt10">
FOR two years, Shashi Kumar Pubalasingam thought he had got away with raping a 69-year-old grandmother.
But he was eventually caught out by his own DNA sample in 2006, which he gave voluntarily to the police.
A task force was on the lookout for him after two other women were sexually assaulted in March that year.
The DNA of the perpetrator who attacked the two women matched that of the rapist of the grandmother, but the police did not know who the person was.
They looked through the records of 1,000 possible suspects and invited them to give samples.
Shashi, who was then 23 but had committed sexual offences as a juvenile, was one of them. He responded to the invitation to give his DNA, and they found a match.
Read the full story in Friday's edition of The Straits Times.
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