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Biological AnalysisHit 1:
In November 2011, a woman was walking home after a night out through a park and two men approached her. One of the men had sex with her without her consent. Semen was found following her medical examination. At the time of the investigation four men were nominated suspects but all were excluded by DNA. No matches were obtained on the National DNA Database. However in June 2022, when the Unknown profile was shared through the Prüm Council agreement, a match was obtained with UK and communicated to Garda Interpol.
Hit 2:
A cluster of crimes were solved using the investigative tools of the DNA Database. This involved five cases that occurred in Spring 2021 – one burglary and 4 criminal damage cases. Four of the incidents occurred on the one night, and the fifth had happened two weeks previously in the same area of Dublin. These cases had been linked through DNA as stain to stain matches but in the Summer of 2022 a DNA reference sample was submitted for a suspected offender for inclusion on the National DNA Database, and it matched all five cases.