A few months back I blogged about Australia’s only death in Iraq, Private Jake Kovco's strange bullet in the head in his Baghdad barracks. The Australian military have made a made hash of this from the very beginning, with their recent ‘final’ report labeling the incident as accidental. Though they still cannot explain how, even though there were two other soldiers with him, in a small barracks room.
The NSW homicide investigators are not comfortable with the military report, and have slammed many aspects of the investigation, including handling if the incident scene.
What the cops have come up with is a second set of, as yet unidentified, DNA traces on the weapon. Ahhh forensics.
Detective Inspector Wayne Hayes said he wanted to return to Baghdad to carry out DNA tests on several soldiers, in particular two of Private Kovco's colleagues with him on April
Bloody amazing, just one death and becomes a mystery wrapped in an enigma, it becomes a season series of [knowledge lapse here] whatever that current favourite cop/forensic show is.
You do have to hand it to the Australian military. Apart from the normal level of ‘stress’ attrition among the troops, there have been few casualties in any current theatre of conflict.
But have them deal with any issue outside narrow military conflict and they are bumbling idiots. I guess that is a matter of good news and bad news.
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