Dog poo helps
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convict robber
GOLD COAST - A clump of dog poo on a shoe has tripped up an armed robber who didn't watch his step on his way to hold up a Gold Coast TAB. While 26-year-old Jacob Michael Smith hid his face during the armed robbery, he neglected to wipe a piece of dog poo off his shoe, which formed an unfortunate pattern that would lead to his arrest.
The poo shape was noticed on a photo taken by a security camera and was enhanced by a police scientific officer.
20 years' jail
for strangling
MELBOURNE - A man who strangled his former de facto wife with her own dressing gown cord after bludgeoning her with a rubber mallet was yesterday jailed for 20 years.
Victorian Supreme Court judge Justice John Coldrey ordered 38-year-old Denis Paul Gojanovic, convicted by a jury of murder, to serve a minimum non-parole term of 15 years.
The court heard that Gojanovic killed Angela Farnsworth, 31, in a "vicious and sustained attack" at her home in Belmont, Geelong.