Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Blood from leech ties man to 2001 crime


SYDNEY - An Australian man faces jail for armed robbery after police used blood from a leech to make a DNA match from a 2001 crime scene. Peter Alec Cannon, 54, pleaded guilty to aggravated armed robbery in the Supreme Court in Launceston on the island state of Tasmania. Crown prosecutor John Ransom told the court that a policeman had picked up a leech from near a safe at the scene of the crime from which forensic scientists extracted blood and a DNA sample....More

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