Where DNA matching an accused is found on multiple items of clothing discarded by offenders at a crime scene, and the items constitute a complete outfit with DNA located on areas consistent with direct contact by a wearer (inside neck, inside shoes, inside palm of gloves, inside waistband), the cumulative effect of those matches is powerful circumstantial evidence of guilt. Alternative hypotheses of clothes sharing, contamination, or secondary transfer must have an evidentiary foundation and cannot rest on mere conjecture or bare possibility. The case distinguishes Fitzgerald v The Queen, where there was specific evidence of occasions on which secondary transfer could have occurred.
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