A 66-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the Valentine's Day murder, an infamous Sydney cold case that had baffled police for more than a decade.
The arrest comes just weeks after New South Wales Police offered a $1 million reward in a bid to solve the brutal murder of German man Bernd Lehmann, in Sydney's inner-west.
The body of Mr Lehmann, 66, was found inside a home unit at Alt Street in Ashfield on the evening of February 14, 2008.
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NSW Police are scheduled to speak this morning with details about the arrest.
Mr Lehmann was bludgeoned to death and suffered severe and fatal head injuries.
Following a Coronial Inquest in 2012, the case was passed on to the Unsolved Homicide Unit in the NSW Police.
In 2018, a forensic review of DNA samples obtained during the initial crime scene was conducted by forensic experts.
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The samples were then sent to the Genetic Ancestry Laboratory, managed by the University of Canberra and University of Technology Sydney for DNA phenotyping.
The analysis revealed the DNA samples did not belong to Mr Lehmann, and likely belonged to a man with a multi-racial background including European, Middle Eastern and African.
The DNA phenotyping also indicated the individual most likely did not have blonde hair or blue eyes.
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