West Yorks police have been stashing forensic samples with the Ben & Jerry's...

[edam]

deary deary me

If as they claim the samples weren't needed, why were they hanging on to them in the first place?

sounds like plain old fashioned incompetence.

Vanilla incompetence, rather than Cherry Garcia?

Seriously, if this is the way the cops handle forensic samples, it rather calls into question all those stats they quote in court cases about 'a one in 10m chance that the defendant wasn't at the scene' or whatever.