COPS: OLIVEIRA’S HAIR MATCHES BLOOD ON SUSPECT’S FIREARM

MBABANE – Police are making headway in solving the mystery surrounding the alleged kidnapping of Matsapha businessman Almor Oliveira.

The police have established that Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) tests from Oliveira’s hair roots collected from his home match the results of blood stains found on Qing Ming He’s licensed firearm.
Also, DNA results from  tissue paper found at the scene of the alleged kidnapping at Matsapha Industrial Site match Oliveira’s hair follicles.

It is just over two months since the businessman was allegedly kidnapped at his business premises on April 16.
Ming He and his girlfriend, Dao Thanta Hue, have been arrested and charged with the kidnapping of Oliveira and were recently charged with murder.
The DNA tests were conducted by Senior Forensic Analyst and Reporting Officer Regina Cicilia Janse Van Rensburg, who is attached to the Biology Section of the Forensic Science Laboratory in Pretoria, South Africa. The results form part of the evidence against the suspects.

According to the forensic report, the tests were conducted on the blood from around and inside the barrel of the firearm and inside its top cover.
Van Rensburg stated in the forensic report that the most conservative occurrence for the DNA result from the blood stains of Ming’s firearm was 1 (one) in 10 million trillion people.
During their bail hearing at the Mbabane Magistrates Court, which was dismissed by Principal Magistrate Fikile Nhlabatsi, Senior Crown Counsel Macebo Nxumalo told the court that blood samples would determine whether Ming and Hue were linked to the kidnapping of Oliveira.

The businessman’s whereabouts remain unknown.
In a bid to ascertain whether the duo was linked to the kidnapping, Nxumalo applied for an order to take the blood sample from Ming He, who is Chinese and Hue, a Vietnamese national.
Upon receipt of the test results, he successfully applied for leave to file new evidence during the suspects’ appeal of the principal magistrate’s decision to deny them bail. They advanced nine grounds of appeal.

Instructed

Leo Gama represented Hue while Advocate Mduduzi Mabila, who was instructed by Noncedo Ndlangamandla of Mabila Attorneys, appeared on Ming’s behalf.

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