GUILTY UK - Louise Smith, 16, Havant, Hampshire, 8 May 2020 *Arrest*

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I don't think it's at all suspicious that CJ did all the talking to police when Louise was reported missing, the glaringly obvious being that Louise was CJ's relative not Shane's.

Regarding the Agoraphobia - the person who posted about this could benefit from doing some research and reading on the subject,
I'd be happy to recommend some helpful articles, websites and books.

And I agree with the Websleuther querying Shane's capacity - illiterate does not equate to low intelligence so it would be interesting and perhaps imperative to know if he had other issues.
 
11:09DAVID POWELL
Crime scene manager giving evidence
Prosecutor James Newton-Price QC has called Emma Hennessey, a Hampshire Constabulary Crime Scene Manager, to the witness box.

11:13DAVID POWELL
Crime scene manager 'at scene for nearly eleven hours'
She says she was called to the scene of the body in Havant Thicket on May 21, 2020 at 2.10pm and worked in the area until 1am the following morning.

Live updates as Louise Smith murder trial reaches day 7
 
11:16DAVID POWELL
Took samples from a stick for any DNA
EH understood that a stick had been 'forcibly inserted' at the scene so there was a 'good chance' it had DNA on it.

She tells the prosecutor that she used four adhesive tapes to take samples of any DNA from around its circumference.

Live updates as Louise Smith murder trial reaches day 7
 
6 minutes ago
Crime scene manager gives evidence
Emma Hennessey, crime scene manager at Hampshire police, is giving evidence.

She she was deployed with other colleagues at around 2.30pm on May 21 to 1am the next day to Havant Thicket, where Louise’s body had been found.

Ms Hennessey is telling jurors how she took tapings of a stick to check for DNA transfer from whoever handled it.

Her evidence has now concluded.

Louise Smith murder trial: Live updates as Shane Mays case enters seventh day
 
11:22DAVID POWELL
Scientist in witness box talking about DNA
A forensic scientist is in the witness box explaining all about DNA.

He says that DNA is a 'complex chemical found in almost every cell in the human body'.

He says scientists can provide profiles and scenarios to state the likelihood of a person being involved in an incident.

11:25DAVID POWELL
Expert answering questions
This expert, who is forensic scientist Edward Dowlman, is answering questions from prosecutor James Newton-Price QC.

Live updates as Louise Smith murder trial reaches day 7
 
8 minutes ago
Forensic scientist
Edward Dowlman, an experienced forensic scientist, is telling jurors about DNA profiles, and how blood is a ‘good’ source of DNA and scientists could get a ‘clear and unambiguous’ profile from it.

This is opposed to a mixed profile, perhaps caused when several people have touched an item, he says. Statistical analysis is then needed. If a regular user of an item touches it more often then they could be a ‘major’ contributor as opposed to a ‘minor’ contributor.

Scientist says the statistical analysis can, for example, give a view that prosecution case is ‘a billion times more likely’ than the defence case, depending on the profile.

He is telling jurors about DNA transfer, and how it’s possible to have ‘brief contact’ with an item and not transfer any DNA.

Louise Smith murder trial: Live updates as Shane Mays case enters seventh day
 
11:32DAVID POWELL
Expert holds white trainer and gives findings
The prosecutor has asked Mr Dowlman to give his views about blood stains on a white trainer, which he is holding in the witness box.

11:38DAVID POWELL
'Blood stain a billion times more likely to come from Louise Smith' - prosecution witness
Mr Dowlman says that this left shoe has one blood stain, near where someone puts it on, with DNA which is 'a billion times more likely to relate to Louise Smith rather than another individual.'

Live updates as Louise Smith murder trial reaches day 7
 
1 minute ago
Blood on Shane Mays’ trainer is ‘billion times more likely’ to be Louise Smith’s
Mr Dowlman has put on gloves before being handed Mays’ left white Adidas trainer.

Prosecutor Mr Newton-Price says in a photo there is blood staining on the opening of the trainer.

Mr Dowlman said there are two confirmed blood stains, and another more into the opening of the shoe.

‘Both these blood stains were cut out and we cut them out to ensure that we recovered as much of the blood as possible,’ he said.

He said the stains were dropped on the trainers.

Mr Dowlman said it is a ‘billion times more likely that the blood staining originated from Louise Smith rather than another unrelated individual’.

There is a ‘minor profile’ of Mays’ DNA, consistent with it being his shoe, the court is told.

Another blood stain has the profiles of Louise, Mays and Louise’s aunt Chazlynn Mays. They could have been contributors to the profile or they could be there ‘by chance,' he said.

Other ‘very small’ blood stains were found. These could not be compared as there was ‘insufficient’ blood.

Mays’ right trainer has ‘three blood stains’ but were not sampled, he adds.


Louise Smith murder trial: Live updates as Shane Mays case enters seventh day
 
5 minutes ago
There was a mixed profile of DNA on a stick in Havant Thicket, Mr Dowlman said.

Statistical analysis shows it’s one billion times more likely to be Louise’s rather than three unknown people, he adds.

And it’s 38m times more likely to be from Shane Mays and Louise Smith rather than from Louise and two unknown people, the forensic scientist adds.

It is 150 times more likely that CJ (Chazlynn Mays) is a contributor than not. Jurors were previously told there is ‘no evidence’ to place CJ outside of Ringwood House on May 8, the day of Louise’s death.

Louise Smith murder trial: Live updates as Shane Mays case enters seventh day
 
11:56DAVID POWELL
Shane Mays' DNA was found on stick from scene - prosecution witness
DNA was found on an exhibit called Stick One, said Mr Dowlman.

It had DNA which was '38 billion times more likely to come from Louise Smith, Shane Mays and an unknown rather than Louise Smith and two unknowns.'

12:06DAVID POWELL
Some sticks from scene had 'partial or no DNA' - prosecution witness
Mr Dowlman, the forensic scientist, says samples from other sticks from the scene only provided partial DNA or no DNA samples and were therefore not robust enough to use to make comparisons.

These were sticks which have been numbered as 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 12.

Live updates as Louise Smith murder trial reaches day 7
 
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