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	DNA Tests Clear Angelika Lover & Father Gerry By Gordon Mciiwraith Glasgow Daily Record [Scotland] April 25, 2007 http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_headline=dna-tests-clear-angelika-lover--- father-gerry&method=full&objectid=18958776&siteid=66633-name_page.html No DNA evidence was found to link Angelika Kluk's married lover or priest Gerry Nugent to her death, a court heard yesterday. Jurors were told that DNA samples were taken from murder accused Peter Tobin and nine others. Those swabbed included Father Nugent, the priest at St Patrick's Church in Anderston, Glasgow, where Angelika was staying and where her body was found. Father Nugent, 63, has claimed he had sex with Angelika. The Polish student's boyfriend Martin McAskill, 40, and his wife Annie were also swabbed and no matches found. DNA matching a man named as David Morriar was found on a blood-soaked fleece in a bin bag dumped beside Angelika's body. And there were DNA traces from a mystery person found on a pair of blood-soaked jeans said to have been regularly worn by Tobin. It was claimed at the High Court in Edinburgh this week that microscopic traces of Angelika's blood were found on Tobin's watch. Police forensic scientist Carol Weston also said prints matching Tobin's DNA were recovered from insulating tape that had been used to gag Angelika, 23. But yesterday, the court heard that the blood could have been on the watch for up to two weeks before the student died. And Mrs Weston admitted she had made a mistake when she was swabbing the tape. The court were given the names of the people who gave DNA samples. A man identified only as Kieran McLernan voluntarily provided a DNA sample when his home in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, was searched by police. A man called Matthew Spark-Egan was also swabbed. The jury have already heard that a tramp known as Sparky was believed to be sleeping rough at St Patrick's. The others swabbed were a man named as David Atkinson and Dennis and Catherine Curran, who ran the charity Loaves and Fishes which regularly met at St Patrick's and provided food and clothes to the homeless. A tarpaulin sheet found in the void under the church near the confession box where Angelika's body was found was smeared with her blood. Mrs Weston said that was consistent with her being wrapped in the sheet and slid into the void. The expert had previously said that the chances of a fingerprint found on the tape used to gag Angelika not being Tobin's were one in a billion. But Donald Findlay QC, defending, pointed out that Mrs Weston had not taken a swab from the tape background, in the area of the ridges allegedly left by Tobin's finger. The scientist admitted that had been a mistake. Tobin, 60, who worked as a handyman at St Patrick's, denies raping and murdering Angelika in the church last September. He claims she agreed to have sex with him. The trial continues today.
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