Australian guilty of Briton's outback murder: jury
Posted on: Tuesday, 13 December 2005, 06:45 CST
DARWIN (Reuters) - An Australian jury found a truck driver guilty on Tuesday of murdering British tourist Peter Falconio and abducting his British girlfriend on a lonely stretch of outback highway in 2001.
Australian Bradley Murdoch flagged down Falconio and Joanne Lees, claming smoke was coming from the back of their van, as they drove along the Stuart Highway in Australia's Northern Territory in July 2001, the court was told during the trial.
The prosecution said that when Falconio went to the rear of the van, Murdoch shot him, but his body was never found. Lees told the court Murdoch then put a gun to her head and bound her wrists with homemade handcuffs, but she escaped into bushes.
Source: REUTERS
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