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.

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.

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.

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

The remains found in an Australian dam and thought to be that of British backpacker Peter Falconoid are not human, it has been confirmed.

Police divers in Australia were today searching a dam where human remains were found, amid speculation they may belong to missing British backpacker Peter Falconio.

The partial remains of an unidentified man have been found in a dam in the Australian Outback, sparking speculation that they may belong to missing British backpacker Peter Falconio.

The man accused of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio is due to go on trial for rape in Adelaide tomorrow.

Police in Australia were today seeking an arrest warrant for a suspected rapist named as the prime suspect in the hunt for the murderer of British tourist Peter Falconio.

A man arrested in Australia and charged with raping two women is also being investigated over the disappearance and suspected murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio.

Australian police are reportedly looking at new evidence which claims Peter Falconio may have faked his own death.

Australian police today charged a man with attempted murder after a knife attack on a British tourist and his American girlfriend on the same desert highway where British backpacker Peter Falconio was believed to have been shot by a mystery gunman last July.

Australian police charging a man with the outback murder of a chef have ruled out any connection with the disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio.

Australian police say a man wanted for questioning over the killing of a chef may be linked to the disappearance of Peter Falconio.

Australian police sent a detective to Ireland to follow up a lead on a gunman suspected of shooting British tourist Peter Falconio in the outback.

The girlfriend of a missing British tourist said today that a man captured on a security camera at an outback service station had probably shot her boyfriend.

Police investigating the disappearance of British tourist Peter Falconio say the body of a man found next to an Outback highway is not his.

Australian police have shown British backpacker Joanne Lees video footage of man who fits the description of her Outback abductor.

Police investigating the disappearance of Peter Falconio in Australia say they do not think a body found in scrub is that of the missing backpacker.

Two British women have contacted police to say they believe they may have met the man suspected of abducting British tourist Peter Falconio in Australia.

Police in Australia are questioning a man over the disappearance of a British tourist feared shot dead during an ambush in the Outback.

The English tourist who escaped a gunman in a central Australian ambush nine days ago stepped into the sunshine in Alice Springs today to go shopping.

The girlfriend of a British tourist missing in the Australian Outback has quashed rumours she was sexually assaulted by the man who attacked them.

Australian police searching for Briton Peter Falconio and his suspected killer say blood found at the scene almost certainly belongs to the victim.

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.

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.