The jury in the Marice McGregor murder trial has this morning heard evidence that blood was found in and on her car.
Feilding man Dean Richard Mulligan, 43, is on trial for the murder of Ms McGregor, whose body was recovered on May 13 last year from a ravine at what
is known as "Whiskey Corner" off State Highway 4, 50km north of Wanganui.
The jury heard from ESR scientist Steven Corinder, who said luminol tests showed a positive reaction for a number of small areas of blood on the outside of Ms McGregor's car, on its left rear side, the driver's door and two areas on the bonnet.
Tests for blood in and on Mulligan's van, a Mitsubishi Delica, were negative.
Tests for semen in both of the vehicles was negative, but tests carried out at Ms McGregor's Tawa St house showed probable reactions for semen on three areas of her couch, and in numerous areas of her bed.
The jury were shown a metal bar, taken from the back of Mulligan's Mitsubishi Delica van.
The 3kg, 39cm-long bar tapers into a four-sided, pyramidal point. Tests for blood on the bar returned negative, but Dr Corinder said this did not rule the bar out from playing a part in Ms McGregor's death, as it could have been washed.
ESR scientist Sally Coulson, who examined the bar in relation to a man-made hole found at the site where Ms McGregor's body was located, said although the hole was made by a pyramidal shaped object, it did not match the pyramidal point of the bar.
The trial continues this afternoon.
