Drug-runner Bradley Murdoch was today found guilty of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio on a remote stretch of desert highway in the Australian Outback more than four years ago.

A police detective denied in court today a defence lawyer’s suggestion that he had planted evidence to incriminate a man charged with murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Outback.

Two staff from an Outback petrol station today told a court they believe they saw British backpacker Peter Falconio days after police said he was murdered by a lone gunman 930 miles away.

A man accused of shooting to death British backpacker Peter Falconio on a lonely Outback highway tried to sell a woman a gun a month before the alleged murder, the woman told a court today.

The man accused of killing British backpacker Peter Falconio on an Outback highway took amphetamines for days to stay awake and carried a gun as he ran marijuana across Australia, a court was told today.

THE man accused of killing British backpacker Peter Falconio laughed in the dock as a detective denied contaminating evidence.

The handcuffs allegedly used to tie up the girlfriend of a British backpacker during an attack in the Australian Outback were put in the same room as property belonging to the accused, a court heard today.

AN Aboriginal woman yesterday said she saw a “big white vehicle” pull on to a remote desert highway on the night a British backpacker disappeared more than four years ago.

Two teenage farm hands were convicted today of murdering two Thai-born prostitutes by throwing them bound and weighted into a crocodile-infested river in northern Australia.

A British woman who was allegedly assaulted after her boyfriend was gunned down in Australia’s Outback nervously described her suspected attacker today while the man charged with the crimes sat across from her in court.

The committal hearing into the disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio in the Australian outback may have to be held in secret, a senior prosecutor warned today.