Murdoch guilty of Falconio murder
The drug runner and mechanic Bradley Murdoch was today jailed for life for the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio four years ago.
The jury at the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin took eight hours to unanimously convict Murdoch. He was also found guilty of abducting and assaulting Mr Falconio‘s girlfriend, Joanne Lees.
The judge, chief justice Brian Martin, told Murdoch: “You have been found guilty by a jury of the crime of murder.
Murdoch, 47, from Broome, Western Australia, flagged down the couple’s camper van on a remote stretch of highway north of Barrow Creek, around 200 miles from Alice Springs, on July 14 2001, claiming smoke was coming from the back of their vehicle.
He shot Mr Falconio dead before threatening Ms Lees, 32, with a gun and tying her up. She managed to escape from Murdoch’s truck and hid for five hours in the bush before flagging down a passing lorry and was rescued.
Source: Guardian Unlimited.
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