<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2681cba5-f075-4664-a314-97b511049571/918F14C8-2ADD-470C-9643-B3DC5D947155/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nzherald.co.nz</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><H1> Armed robber busted by blood-sucking leech </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nzherald.co.nz/img/85A7751B-7669-4CC9-B0F9-90E853964136" alt="A leech was the only forensic evidence found at a Tasmanian crime scene - but was still enough for a world-first conviction. Photo / Derek Flynn" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><H2 class="caption">A leech was the only forensic evidence found at a Tasmanian crime scene - but was still enough for a world-first conviction. Photo / Derek Flynn</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A title="Watch: Blood from leech leads Aussie police to robber" target="_blank" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/video.cfm?c_id=82&gal_objectid=10604528&gallery_id=107925" class="mediaMediumPre">Video</A> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/video.cfm?c_id=82&gal_objectid=10604528&gallery_id=107925">Blood from leech leads Aussie police to robber</A> <SPAN class="mediaInfoMedium">(1:20)</SPAN></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><P>Last year, Peter Cannon was arrested on unrelated charges, and a cross-check established that his blood sample matched that taken from the leech.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><P>In what is believed to be a world first, the evidence led to him pleading guilty this week to aggravated armed robbery.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><P>The leech was found next to a safe in the home of 71-year-old Fay Olson, who lives in a remote wooded area of Tasmania. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><P>She had been threatened with sticks by two hooded men who broke into her house, tied her to a chair and stole 550 Australian dollars.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><P>Police established that neither Ms Olson nor any of the officers who went to the house had been bitten. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10604528"><P>Cannon, 54, who will be sentenced on Friday, faces up to 21 years in jail. 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