From the early 1980s police would take material from crime scenes and place samples in their giant freezer at Macleod, even though at that time they were next to useless.
Man to stand trial on 1987 rape allegations
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The original police file about an investigation into claims two girls were raped 33 years ago no longer exists and two former officers who interviewed the teenagers have no memories of the case, a court has heard.
Police allege Theodoros Tsalkos raped two sex workers, then aged 15 and 16, in Elwood and Balaclava after picking them up in St Kilda in a red Holden Torana on May 7, 1987.
The friends began being sex workers four days earlier. One of the complainants has since died.