Burglar caught 10 years after crime as DNA left on German sausage

German police have identified a hapless burglar who left traces of his DNA on a sausage found at the crime scene.

Police were called to investigate a break-in at a property in the town of Gevelsberg, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012.

The culprit vanished many years ago but cops were able to seize a sausage which was suspected to have been partly eaten and discarded by the crook.

A DNA sample was taken from a chunk of the sausage, but there was no match in the database until almost a decade later.

A 30-year-old Albanian man was identified as the sausage eater and burglar.

He had been arrested for his involvement in a separate violent crime.

His DNA sample that was entered into the international database and police say they are confident the match allowed them to link him to the historic theft in March 2012.

Earlier on Thursday, we reported how a Just Eat delivery driver left customers building cat-in-hand as he stole the pet from a Paris apartment block.

The Just Eat customer, Caroline Simon-Provo, claims the driver took the animal to deal with a mouse infestation at a restaurant.

Security footage of the incident shows a man leaving the building with a delivery bag and a cat in his arms on Tuesday evening.

It is believed the cat belonged to her building’s caretaker, who noticed the cat was missing shortly after the delivery took place.

"We called the police straight away the next morning after seeing the video," Ms Simon-Provo told The Independent.

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