Australian Police took DNA swabs from the father and brother of a missing English tourist today in a bid to identify blood found at the outback site where he is believed to have been shot by a gunman.

Today’s reconstruction of the Australian attack in which one tourist vanished and his partner was abducted, lasted three hours.

Police in Australia are following hundreds of leads in the search for a man who attacked a British couple travelling around the continent.

British tourist Joanne Lees, who managed to escape from a gunman suspected of murdering her boyfriend on a remote Australian desert highway says she fears the attacker will strike again.

The girlfriend of a British tourist feared to have been shot dead during an ambush in the Australian outback today said she felt lucky to be alive.