The Court in Luxembourg City spoke its verdict on Thursday morning: the police officer accused of perverting the course of justice has received a three year suspended prison sentence and a €1,000 fine.
The man was accused of tampering with DNA profiles between August 2013 and March 2014. Upon requests from foreign police forces, the man had stamped a genetic profile as "negative DNA" after comparison with a genetic profile from the Luxembourgish database - this despite the fact that the result had been positive.
This had apparently happened 8 times in the context of the Prüm Convention and 23 times in requests from countries outside the convention.
