PRADEEP K TIMALSINA/Sydney, Australia
Blood taken from a leech has proved decisive in solving an eight year old aggravated robbery case in northern Tasmania.
In what police describe as a world first, DNA taken from a leech has been used to catch and convict a man who robbed a 71-year-old woman at her home in 2001.
Peter Alec Cannon, 54, from Lilydale has pleaded guilty in the Launceston Supreme Court to aggravated armed robbery.
Forensics collected the leech from the crime scene.
The blood sample was filed away after it did not match anyone at the scene or the robbery vicitm.
But last year when Cannon was charged with drug offences, his DNA was matched with the blood sample taken eight years earlier from the leech.
Cannon has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on Friday
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