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	Latest: Angelika Priest DNA Tested, Court Told The Herald [Scotland] April 24, 2007 http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1351233.0.0.php A priest who admitted having sex with Angelika Kluk gave a DNA sample to detectives investigating her murder, a murder trial has heard. But the High Court in Edinburgh heard that no DNA evidence was found to link Father Gerry Nugent, 63, with the body of a Polish student found under his church. The Angelika Kluk murder trial has been hearing for a second day from forensic scientist Carol Weston, 33. Mrs Weston was called in after the discovery of the Polish student's bound, gagged and blood-stained body under the floor of St Patrick's Church in Anderston, Glasgow. She has told the High Court in Edinburgh of DNA tests linking accused Peter Tobin, 60, and Angelika, 23. Mrs Weston also told the court of a number of other people who gave DNA samples "for elimination purposes." They included Father Nugent, Angelika's married lover Martin Macaskill, and his wife, Anne. Advocate depute Dorothy Bain, prosecuting, asked Mrs Weston if there was any evidence to link them, in terms of DNA profiles, to any of the items shown earlier to the court. Mrs Weston said there was not. Mr Tobin denies murder, attempting to defeat the ends of justice, attempting to pervert the course of justice and breach of the peace. He also denies rape, claiming he had sex with Angelika with her consent. Angelika, 23, had been staying at the chapel house attached to St Patrick's Church in Anderston, Glasgow, and working as a cleaner to help finance her language studies in Gdansk. Mr Tobin was helping out there as an odd job man. He is accused of attacking Angelika between September 24 and September 29 in St Patrick's Church, or elsewhere, gagging her with cloth and tape, binding her hands with cable ties, raping her, smashing her skull with a piece of wood or something similar, stabbing her 16 times in the chest and inflicting other knife injuries. It is alleged that he then hid the body under the floor of the church. A further charge alleges that he told Glasgow police his name was Patrick McLaughlin, gave a false date of birth and address, and that he travelled to London and gave staff at the National Neurology and Neurosurgery Hospital in Queen's Square, London, another false name. Mr Tobin also denies a breach of the peace between July and September last year by threatening Russian student Rebecca Dordi at St Patrick's Church. The trial continues.
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