Outback murder hearing delayed by legal submissions

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.

Lees yesterday recounted in Darwin Magistrates Court the terrifying night of July 14, 2001 when she last saw her boyfriend of six years, Peter Falconio, of Huddersfield.