Prosecutors need to prove lack of contamination at Suzanne Poll murder scene, defence lawyer tells court

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No witnesses saw anyone who looked like the accused killer at the scene of an Adelaide cold case murder, and prosecutors need to prove the evidence hasn't been contaminated over the past 30 years, his lawyer has told the court.

Ms Poll was killed while on shift at a Salisbury stationery shopMatthew Donald Tilley, 48, is on trial accused of murdering Suzanne Poll in the Salisbury stationery shop where the 36-year-old worked in 1993.

Prosecutor Carmen Matteo told the jury that blood samples taken from the scene were decades-later matched to Mr Tilley and he was arrested in September last year. Ms Abbey said the jury was required to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Tilley's blood was at the scene "because he is the killer". "You can't exclude, I suggest, the risk that there has been a contamination which has affected those results," she told the jury.

 

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