The stepfather of British tourist Joanne Lees, who escaped from a gunman who is believed to have killed her boyfriend, arrived in Australia today as the massive police manhunt continued for the suspected murderer and his victim.

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.

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.