Enhanced DNA techniques help WA police charge man over alleged sexual assault in Jurien Bay hotel in 2014

Improved technology allows officers to lay charges in decade-old sexual assault case as well as an unrelated commercial burglary in 2012

Police in Western Australia have laid charges in two separate, decade-old cases thanks to enhanced DNA analysis techniques.

In separate statements issued on Tuesday, Western Australia police said they had laid charges in a sexual assault case dating back to 2014 and an unrelated commercial burglary in 2012. In both instances, they said they had used enhanced DNA forensic techniques as part of a review of the investigation.

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