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Blood from mosquito traps Finnish suspect

thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito. Last June a car was stolen in Lapua, 380km north of Helsinki. It was soon found near a railway station in Seinaejoki, about 25km from where it was stolen."A police patrol carried out an inspection of the car and they noticed a mosquito that had sucked blood. It was sent to the laboratory for testing, which showed the blood belonged to a man who was in the police registers," inspector Sakari Palomaeki said. The suspect, who has been interrogated, has insisted he did not steal the car, saying he had hitchhiked and was given a lift by a man driving the car.Palomaeki said a prosecutor would decide if the evidence was solid enough for charges to be pressed.Finnish police said it was rare for them to use insects to solve crimes, although they are interested in everything found at a crime scene."It is not usual to use mosquitoes. In training we were not told to keep an eye on mosquitoes at crime scenes," Palomaeki said, laughing."It is not easy to find a small mosquito in a car, this just shows how thorough the crime-scene investigation was," he added. – AFP


＊アドレス＊
　http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-12-22-blood-from-mosquito-traps-finnish-suspect

＊要約＊
フィンランドの警察が、蚊が吸った血からDNAを解析して、容疑者を特定することに成功した。ヘルシンキから北に380km行ったところにあるラプアで自動車が盗まれる事件が起こり、車自体は盗まれた場所から25km離れたセイナヨキ駅で発見された。見つかった車を調べていた警察は、中に蚊が閉じこめられていたことに気づき、吸った血を調べるために研究所に送った。そうして警察が絞り込んだ容疑者は、尋問に対して「自分はヒッチハイクをして車に乗っただけ」と答え、容疑を否認している。フィンランドの警察が犯罪解決のため虫を使ったのは初めてであり、「トレーニング時に現場に残された蚊から目を離すなとは言われなかった」と検察官のSakari Palomaekiさんは笑いながら語っている。

＊感想＊
確かに蚊は血を吸うので捜査には重要な役割を果たしそうですが、見つけるのが大変そうです。

＊単語＊
mosquito………蚊
sucked…………吸う
laboratory………実験室
interrogated……尋問する
prosecutor………検察官
investigation……捜査