Former New South Wales police commissioner Mick Fuller has been appointed as the new director of Queensland’s beleaguered forensic testing lab.

Fuller, who served as commissioner from 2017 to 2022, will now lead reforms at Forensic Science Queensland, which is battling to rectify a series of failures and clear a significant testing backlog.

The lab was the centre of two commissions of inquiry, after former forensic biologist Dr Kirsty Wright blew the whistle on alleged testing failures in the 2013 murder investigation of Shandee Blackburn.

More than 100,000 were ordered to be retested across the lab, and two senior employees were stood down.

A damning report released last month revealed there were still 13,000 samples in the backlog that needed to be tested, with an average completio

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