{"id":366108,"date":"2026-07-14T11:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=366108"},"modified":"2026-07-14T11:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:57:13","slug":"australian-police-release-recent-images-of-british-backpacker-peter-falconio-in-bid-to-find-his-stays-news-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/australian-police-release-recent-images-of-british-backpacker-peter-falconio-in-bid-to-find-his-stays-news-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian police release recent images of British backpacker Peter Falconio in bid to ‘find his stays’ | News World"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Falconio had been trravelling along with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees (Picture: Alamy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Police in Australia have marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio by releasing recent images from their investigation, within the hope it \u2018could lead on police to Peter\u2019s stays\u2019.<\/p>\n

Bradley John Murdoch was convicted in 2005 of murdering Mr Falconio, 28, and assaulting his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, at gunpoint on a distant stretch of road in Australia\u2019s Northern Territory on July 14, 2001.<\/p>\n

Mr Falconio and Ms Lees, each from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, were travelling across the country in a camper van once they were ambushed by Murdoch on the isolated Stuart Highway.<\/p>\n

Murdoch was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for a minimum of 28 years.<\/p>\n

He died in prison last yr after being diagnosed with terminal throat cancer in 2019, but never revealed the situation of Mr Falconio\u2019s stays.<\/p>\n

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Latest photos have been shared in hopes of finding Falconio (Picture: PR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The couple had been travelling in an old van together (Picture: PR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To mark 25 years since Mr Falconio\u2019s murder, Northern Territory Police have released previously unseen images from the case.<\/p>\n

Northern Territory Police Force commissioner Martin Dole APM said the force would exhaust every possibility to search out Mr Falconio\u2019s stays and produce closure to his family members.<\/p>\n

\u2018This was a traumatic and horrific event for Ms Lees, and for Peter\u2019s family who’ve now gone such an extended time without the answers they deserve,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018While a murderer has been held accountable for his crimes, this investigation can never be considered closed until Peter\u2019s stays are found and his family can lay him to rest.<\/p>\n

\u2018It’s deeply regrettable that Murdoch died without, so far as we all know, ever disclosing the situation of Peter\u2019s stays. His cowardly silence has denied his family, friends and family members the closure they deserve.\u2019<\/p>\n

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He continued: \u2018Twenty-five years is a major milestone, and the Northern Territory Police Force stays committed to bringing this investigation to its fullest conclusion and can proceed to pursue every avenue available.<\/p>\n

\u2018The discharge of latest footage could lead on police to Peter\u2019s stays. There should still be someone who knows something, whether that be information they’ve never previously shared with the police or something Murdoch said to them.<\/p>\n

\u2018We proceed to induce anyone with information referring to the situation of Peter Falconio\u2019s stays to return forward. No piece of data is simply too small; what could seem insignificant could prove critical in helping investigators finally resolve this case.\u2019<\/p>\n

A reward of as much as 500,000 Australian dollars (\u00a3260,000) has been offered for any information that leads on to the invention of Mr Falconio\u2019s stays.<\/p>\n

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Falconio had been trravelling along with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees (Picture: Alamy) Police in Australia have marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio by releasing recent images from their investigation, within the hope it \u2018could lead on police to Peter\u2019s stays\u2019. Bradley John Murdoch was convicted in 2005 of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20691],"tags":[1573,25110,2443,2869,53840,716,3702,395,9424,9116,1905,10715,813],"class_list":["post-366108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-australian","tag-backpacker","tag-bid","tag-british","tag-falconio","tag-find","tag-images","tag-news","tag-peter","tag-police","tag-release","tag-remains","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t