Police win DNA battle in Falconio investigation

Australian police today won the right to analyse DNA samples taken from a man they want to question in the disappearance and suspected slaying of British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Australian outback last year.

Australian police took the samples after Bradley John Murdoch, aged 44, was arrested in early September in connection with another crime – the abduction and rape of a woman and her daughter in South Australia.