Saiful's spem in his own anus shows "the swab never came from his ass"

Stung by what he perceived to be a silly line of questioning by the prosecution, Australian DNA expert Dr Brian McDonald snapped at Solicitor General II Yusof Zainal Abiden, who kept questioning him on how sodomy complainant Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s sperm cells had made their way into his rectum.

“The swab never came from his ass,” McDonald told the court hearing the sodomy charges pressed by Prime Minister Najib Razak against Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

“The DNA evidence does not tell us that there is no semen from the complainant on that swab ... or the swab never went near his ass.”

McDonald said the available DNA evidence could not show how it could have happened, pointing out that the physical impossibility suggested that the swabs may not be genuine.

Dr McDonald explained he had no idea if the samples analyzed and reported by government scientists were genuinely taken from Saiful’s posterior. He said he could only tell what he knows based on what was recorded.

Keeping an eye on for Najib and Rosmah

Dr McDonald is Anwar’s DNA expert witness and the prosecution was trying to debunk his earlier argument that there must be continuous tests carried out to find out the identities of the mixture of DNA profiles that had been recorded as swabbed from the complainant’s rear end.

The 64-year old Anwar was charged with sodomising his former aide in June 2008, shortly after he announced plans to return to active politics. He has accused Najib and wife Rosmah of cooking up the charges in a bid to derail his political career.

The first couple have refused to testify at the trial but Anwar's lawyers have subpoenaed them and all eyes are on what they will say in the witness box.

So far, sources told Malaysia Chronicle neither Najib nor Rosmah have applied to set aside the subpoena which they have to if they want to escape a public grilling. PKR leaders were mixed in the views on whether the first couple would comply with the summons.

"I don't think they will dare come anywhere near the courts," Tian Chua, the MP for Batu, told Malaysia Chronicle.

"I think they will. It will look extremely bad for them if they don't," PKR vice president N Surendran told Malaysia Chronicle.

- Malaysia Chronicle