The freshly minted boss of Queensland’s forensic service says there are likely creeps who should be in prison but are instead walking the streets because of the failure of the state-run laboratory.

That is the haunting realisation for former NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller who was unveiled on Friday as director of Forensic Science Queensland.

He has the enormous task of repairing the scandal-plagued lab, restoring faith in the justice system and working through a backlog filled with thousands of DNA samples from rape and murder investigations.

Former NSW Police commissioner Mick Fuller (left) has a new job in Queensland. Credit: Mick Tsikas

Fuller told this masthead it was difficult to determine how many criminal cases were in limbo because of the about 13,000 samples still wai

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