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Evidence mix-up claims

Evidence mix-up claims

1:40pm Thursday 21st April 2011

A forensic scientist has denied that Dyfed-Powys police had accidentally mixed up exhibits allegedly linking farm labourer John William Cooper to a double murder.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: DNA evidence 'contamination' claim

Shorts found at Cooper's home are said to contain DNA of the Dixons' daughter Julie.

5:16pm Wednesday 20th April 2011

A forensic scientist today denied that Dyfed-Powys Police had accidentally mixed up exhibits allegedly linking farm labourer John William Cooper to a double murder.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: 'Cooper had home-made burglary device'

3:02pm Tuesday 19th April 2011

Alleged killer John William Cooper made himself a "well engineered" burgling device, it was claimed today (Tuesday).

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: 'Screw from shotgun links Cooper to murders'

5:11pm Monday 18th April 2011

There was "an extremely strong possibility" that a tiny screw found at the home of farm labourer John William Cooper came from a gun used in a double murder, a jury heard today.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Son tells of Cooper's night walks with shotgun

6:06pm Thursday 14th April 2011

Farm labourer John William Cooper was in the habit of taking long evening walks with a shotgun hidden underneath his jacket, a jury heard today.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Court hears rape attack evidence from beyond the grave

12:27pm Wednesday 13th April 2011

A Milford Haven woman has told the John William Cooper trial from beyond the grave how she and her friends were attacked by an armed, hooded man.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Coast path victims' daughter went abroad rather than join parents in Pembrokeshire

Police released a new picture of coast path murder victim Peter Dixon.

9:43am Tuesday 12th April 2011

The daughter of coast path murder victims Peter and Gwenda Dixon has told how she had visited Pembrokeshire every summer with her parents before the fateful holiday in 1989.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Jury sees Bullseye footage of John Cooper

Trial jury see pictures of John Cooper on the set of Bullseye

4:31pm Thursday 7th April 2011

A farm labourer suspected of four murders appeared on ITV's Bullseye less than a month before he slaughtered his final two victims, a jury heard today.

Crime Scene: Jury visits sites of notorious murders

This key links Cooper to the Scoveston murders, the prosecution claims.

1:50pm Thursday 7th April 2011

THE jury in the trial of John William Cooper, the man accused of two notorious double murders, have visited his former home – said to be at the ‘epicentre’ of a string of serious crimes across Pembrokeshire.

DOUBLE MURDERS TRIAL: Jury to visit Pembrokeshire crime scenes

8:28am Tuesday 5th April 2011

The jury in the Pembrokeshire murders trial will be in the area for the next two days visiting scenes of the alleged crimes.

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