Bradley John Murdoch
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Bradley John Murdoch
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| Born |
19 February 1958 Northampton, Western Australia, Australia |
| Occupation |
Mechanic Truck driver |
| Criminal penalty |
Life imprisonment 28 years non-parole period |
| Conviction(s) |
Murder Deprivation of liberty Aggravated unlawful assault |
Bradley John Murdoch (born 19 February 1958) is an Australian criminal serving life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of English backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia. He will be 74 when eligible for parole in 2032. Murdoch is being held in Darwin Correctional Centre in Darwin, Northern Territory. He has lodged two appeals against his conviction; both were unsuccessful. The High Court of Australia refused special leave to appeal on 21 June 2007. He is forbidden to talk to the press.
Murdoch had previously lived in Broome, Western Australia and worked as a truck driver and mechanic. He also admitted in court to smuggling large amounts of cannabis.
Shortly after his acquittal for unrelated rape and abduction charges, Murdoch was arrested in 2003 and charged with the murder of Peter Falconio on a remote part of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek on 14 July 2001.
The case of the Queen vs Bradley John Murdoch was heard before the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory in Darwin. The judge was Brian Ross Martin QC, Chief Justice of the Northern Territory.
The trial began on 17 October 2005. Murdoch pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering Falconio and assaulting and attempting to kidnap his girlfriend Joanne Lees.
A sample of his DNA was found on Joanne Lees' T-shirt and was shown to be "150 quadrillion times more likely [to] belong to Murdoch" than anyone else.
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