Hello all,
I found this amazing, after eight years, the blood taken from a leech convicts a man of an eight year old robbery:
Leech convicts Australian robber - By Nick Bryant
BBC News, Sydney
Australian Police in Tasmania have used a blood sample from a leech to identify a criminal, in what is believed to be a world forensic first.
Eight years ago, a group of thieves robbed a 71-year-old woman in her home.
Police found a leech at the crime scene and took a sample of the blood it had consumed for DNA profiling.
In 2008 Peter Alec Canon was charged over a drug offence and his DNA was found to match the sample. Canon has now admitted aggravated armed robbery.
This is believed to be the first time that the lowly leech has been used in the forensic fight against crime.
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Published: 2009/10/20 03:41:46 GMT © BBC MMIX
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Chris
Lowly Leech Fights Crime
Lowly Leech Fights Crime
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Re: Lowly Leech Fights Crime
Thanks Chris
Its the headlline local news down here.
- Don't get me started on 'Tasmanians'!!
Ben
Its the headlline local news down here.
- Don't get me started on 'Tasmanians'!!
Ben
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..