Bradley Murdoch, who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio, is being investigated in connection with several unsolved killings and disappearances of women in Western Australia, police said today.

The drug-runner who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio will serve at least 28 years in prison before being considered for parole, a court heard today.

THE girlfriend of Peter Falconio yesterday urged his killer to reveal what he has done with the British backpacker’s body.

Joanne Lees today urged her boyfriend’s killer to tell her and the Falconio family “what he has done with Pete”.

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 was filmed by a fuel station security camera within hours of the tourist disappearing in an Outback ambush, a forensic expert 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.

The girlfriend of a British backpacker killed in the Australian outback more than four years ago identified her attacker to police in the year after her attack, a court heard today.

The family of a missing British backpacker arrived in Australia today for the trial of a mechanic accused of murdering him on a lonely stretch of Outback highway in 2001.

The Australian trial of a mechanic charged with murdering a British backpacker on an outback highway in 2001 was postponed today, less than two weeks before it was due to start – to allow further investigations in the case, a judge said.

A mechanic was ordered today to stand trial for the alleged murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Australian Outback three years ago.

The man accused of the murder of Briton Peter Falconio in the Australian Outback tried to sell a gun to a motorist he befriended, a court has been told.

A SERVICE station worker has told a court he personally served missing British backpacker Peter Falconio a week after the traveller was allegedly murdered in the Australian Outback.

Prosecutors are to urge a trivia board game’s distributors not to sell it in northern Australia because one of the game’s questions breaks a court order banning publication of evidence in the Peter Falconio murder case.

An acquaintance of the man accused of murdering Peter Falconio in the Australian outback said today he had never seen his friend of 15 years with a gun.

The preliminary hearing of a mechanic accused of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio and terrorising his girlfriend Joanne Lees was adjourned today for two months.

The girlfriend of a British backpacker believed murdered in the Australian Outback underwent hypnotherapy to try to dredge up more evidence for police hunting the killer, a policewoman told a court today.

Bradley Murdoch altered his appearance and made changes to his Toyota Landcruiser after returning home from a drama-filled Australian Outback trip in mid-2001, his former girlfriend said today.

THE girlfriend of missing British backpacker Peter Falconio has left Australia after telling the hearing of the man accused of murdering her boyfriend that she had a sexual relationship with a man in Sydney while she was living with Mr Falconio.

“Rod, we’ve got some sheila out here all bloody tied up – want to come down and give us a hand?”

The girlfriend of Peter Falconio believed murdered three years ago on an Australian Outback highway admitted today she had a second lover while she was living with the missing man.

DEFENCE lawyers in the Australian Outback hearing into the death of British tourist Peter Falconio yesterday attacked the credibility of his girlfriend Joanne Lees.

Defence lawyers in the Australian Outback hearing into the death of Briton Peter Falconio today attacked the credibility of Joanne Lees claiming she was having another, perhaps secret, relationship when her boyfriend disappeared three years ago.

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.

Accused uutback killer Bradley John Murdoch complained today he was wasting his days in court cells while his committal hearing is bogged down in legal argument.

A court hearing against a man accused of murdering a British backpacker in the Australian Outback was adjourned today until next week as defence lawyers argued to have crucial evidence withheld from the public.

Legal argument today prevented British backpacker Joanne Lees from continuing her evidence in a committal hearing for the man accused of her boyfriend’s murder on a lonely Australian Outback road.

Outback ambush survivor Joanne Lees choked back tears today as she relived the night a gunman apparently shot her boyfriend and abducted her on a lonely desert highway in the Northern Territory of Australia.

A mechanic was in an Australian court today charged with the murder nearly three years ago of a British man who disappeared from a lonely Outback highway leaving only a pool of his blood on the road.

THE girlfriend of a British backpacker authorities believe was murdered three years ago in the Outback said she wants the man accused of the crime to receive a fair hearing.

The girlfriend of a British backpacker authorities believe was murdered three years ago in the Outback said she wants the man accused of the crime to receive a fair hearing.

The brother of a missing British backpacker will be among about 40 witnesses to give evidence at a pre-trial hearing later this month for an Australian drifter accused of murdering him, a prosecutor said in Darwin today.

An Australian truck driver charged with murdering a British backpacker on a lonely Outback highway will appear in court next May for a hearing to decide if he should stand trial for the mysterious killing, a court ruled today.

A mechanic was charged today with murdering British tourist Peter Falconio on a lonely Australian Outback highway more than two years ago.

A mechanic suspected of murdering British tourist Peter Falconio was sent to northern Australia today, where he is expected to be formally charged with murder.