DNA Databank for Missing Persons Proposed

An Ontario MP has revived calls for a national DNA databank for missing persons and will present a petition to Parliament on Thursday. Wayne Marston, the NDP member for Hamilton East–Stoney Creek, said he took up the cause after learning that potential clues in a missing-persons case in his riding could not be tested for DNA because no body had been found. The case involved Billy Mason, a 27-year-old Hamilton man who vanished on Feb. 22, 2006. Police suspect foul play.