Falconio killer loses bid to appeal against life sentence

A man convicted of killing a British backpacker and trying to kidnap his girlfriend lost his final bid to overturn his life sentence today when Australia’s highest court refused to hear his case.

Bradley John Murdoch was convicted last year of murdering Briton Peter Falconio on a remote stretch of Outback highway on July 14, 2001, and attempting to kidnap Falconio’s girlfriend, Joanne Lees.