Mr Powell has moved onto the examination of the T-shirt Ciara was wearing at the time of her death.

Mr Powell said 11 blue polyester fibres were recovered from a petri dish with scrapings from the garment by ChemCentre scientists in 2012.

The petri dish was originally made by the FBI in 1999.

Mr Powell is now going through each of the 11 fibres, one-by-one.

He said the first fibre was compared to fibres from a pair of Telstra trousers and a fibre found in Mr Edwards' former work car in 2019 and found to match.