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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Hundreds of drug-driving convictions could be thrown out after mass errors at testing lab

A general image of laboratory drug testing

(Picture: PA)

Hundreds of drug-driving convictions have been thrown into doubt after more than 1,700 lab tests conducted over 21 months had to be withdrawn.

Problems with tests carried out by Synlab Laboratory Services Limited were identified by the company in December 2020, sparking a mass review by police and the forensic science regulator into the scale of the problem.

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