Man found guilty of Falconio murder

Drug-runner Bradley Murdoch was today found guilty of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio on a remote stretch of desert highway in the Australian Outback more than four years ago.

Murdoch, of Broome, Western Australia, was also found guilty of depriving Mr Falconio’s girlfriend Joanne Lees of her liberty and of assaulting her on the Stuart Highway, near Barrow Creek, about 200 miles north of Alice Springs, on July 14, 2001.