Man tells court he served ‘murdered’ backpacker

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.

Robert Brown and his partner Melissa Kendall told Darwin Magistrates Court they served Mr Falconio at the service station where they worked in the New South Wales outback, a week after the tourist was allegedly killed on the Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory.

They had seen photographs of Mr Falconio in newspapers after he disappeared, and looked at the pictures again immediately before and after they said they saw him in their shop in Bourke, the court heard.