Berkeley tragedy: Probe into balcony collapse ‘already tainted’

A criminal investigation into the collapse of the balcony in Berkeley, California, that claimed the lives of six Irish students may already be compromised, according to an engineering expert.

Despite the repeated insistence of city authorities and the local police that no such probe would take place, the local District Attorney has forced the issue by taking charge of the criminal investigation.

However, an engineering expert from the University of California has revealed city authorities may have already ruined valuable evidence by first storing and then handing back decayed wood from the balcony to the owners of the building.