DNA on a cigarette butt found outside Lloyd Rayney's home around the time of his wife's murder matched a person 'well known to police', murder trial told. <\/p>\n
Lloyd Rayney dodges witches hats to get to court for day 31 of his murder trial. PICTURE: Kerris Berrington Source: PerthNow <\/p>\n
Sen-Const Warren Wheatley. Source: PerthNow <\/p>\n
LAWYERS acting for barrister Lloyd Rayney today told the Supreme Court that DNA on a cigarette butt found by police outside the family home in Como matched that of a person \"well known to police\" as other witnesses told of \"blood curdling\" screams coming from Kings Park on the night Mr Rayney's wife Corryn disappeared. <\/p>\n
In a new twist in the long-running trial, defence lawyer David Edwardson, QC, told trial judge Justice Brian Martin that the person whose DNA was found on the cigarette butt had the same surname - Eades - as the driver of a car which was stopped by Kensington police in Manning at about 9.10pm on August 7, 2007, the night Mrs Rayney was last seen alive. <\/p>\n
\"Your honour will hear evidence shortly that a cigarette butt was retrieved and that the DNA on that cigarette matched a person well known to police by the name of Eades,\" he said. <\/p>\n
The cigarette butt was among items collected by police from the footpath and verge of the Rayney home on August 22, 2007. <\/p>\n
Mr Edwardson's comments came as a former police officer, Darrel McLeod, gave evidence at Mr Rayney's murder trial today.<\/p>\n
It has been alleged Mr Rayney killed his wife at the family home after she arrived home from a boot scooting class in Bentley. <\/p>\n
He has pleaded not guilty to the charge and also to an alternative charge of manslaughter. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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