SEGARAN RAMALU NAIDOO
The laboratory came back to me after quite some work on this and said that they had been able to isolate some DNA from some teeth, one tooth I think and one bone, but unfortunately the DNA was so degraded that it wouldn't be able to replicate.
	You must replicate in order to subject it to testing.  It was too degraded DNA.  But what they advised me with that negative report, they advised me that they would like to send the specimen to what they would consider ...(indistinct) in the European countries, Prof Brinkman and Munster, Germany, and it would not cost anything.  I waited several months more for a result.
	They did write back to say that in spite of exhaustive tests carried out and in spite of mitochondria DNA being sought, they were unable to get a positive result.  The laboratory tests are telling us then that they were unable to isolate DNA, to make it available for testing.