No fingerprints found on baseball bat used to beat Corbett, trial hears

No fingerprints were found on the 28in Louisville Slugger baseball bat used to hit Irish businessman Jason Corbett multiple times in the head in the early hours of August 2, 2015, a forensic analyst with the North Carolina State Crime Lab testified yesterday.

Adrianne Reeve, who works as an analyst with the State Crime Lab, said she did not find any latent fingerprints on the baseball bat.

Another analyst, Melanie Carson, said in court that one sample of hair taken from the bat was microscopically consistent with hair that had been collected from Mr Corbett’s head. No conclusions could be made about a second sample of hair.