Police ombudsman assures women on DNA samples

The Police Ombudsman in the North Nuala O'Loan is to oversee the disposal of DNA samples in a murder investigation.

DNA samples are been collected from women in the area around Carryduff in Co. Antrim.

Police are trying to locate the mother of a child who's body was found with multiple stab wounds in a black bin bag at the end of March.

O'Loan has assured worried women that all DNA samples that do not relate to the baby will be destroyed.

DNA will not be kept nor records of them entered onto any database.

Until now many women have been reluctant to come forward for samples because of fear of what might happen to them.