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	Joanne Lees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joanne Lees, 32, is a British woman, notable for being the girlfriend of Peter Falconio, 28, at the time of his disappearance on a remote stretch of highway near Barrow Creek in outback Northern Territory, Australia on July 14, 2001.
		Lees was the chief crown witness in the trial of Bradley John Murdoch conducted in Darwin.
		During the trial, Joanne Lees' credibility was attacked by the defence which claimed to find inconsistencies in her story and asserted she was intoxicated by marijuana at the time of the offence (she admitted to smoking a joint just a few minutes prior to the offence).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joanne_Lees (806 words)

	Peter Falconio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lees reported that while travelling at night along the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek (between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek) in the Northern Territory on July 14, 2001, the pair were stopped by a man waving for the couple to stop their car and indicating trouble with their car's exhaust.
		When Joanne Lees identified his photograph as being the man who abducted her, and DNA from Lees's body matched that from Murdoch, Murdoch was charged by police and extradited to the Northern Territory for trial.
		Joanne Lees admitted to having cable ties in the back of her Kombi, but has denied that she used the ties to bind herself.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Falconio (5847 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Lees admits she had second lover
		Earlier, Joanne Lees, 30, told a court in Darwin that she used a second e-mail account to correspond with the man.
		On Wednesday, Ms Lees was asked by the defence counsel whether, when she was in Alice Springs after the alleged attack, she had told a police officer she needed to delete messages from a "secret e-mail account".
		Ms Lees gave a detailed description to the court of the man, who she says flagged down the camper van she and Mr Falconio were travelling in on a deserted highway near Alice Springs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3752265.stm (628 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Drifter's DNA 'on cuffs used to bind Joanne'
		Black plastic manacles used to handcuff the British backpacker Joanne Lees in the Australian outback contained DNA material from the drifter accused of assaulting her and shooting dead her boyfriend, a court was told yesterday.
		Miss Lees began giving evidence on the first day of the trial of Bradley John Murdoch, a former lorry driver who is charged with trying to abduct her and murdering her boyfriend, Peter Falconio, on a remote road in July 2001.
		Mr Wild said Miss Lees was "determined to survive", though her hands were tied behind her back, a sack was over her head and she was covered by a canopy in the back of the vehicle with loose tape around her feet.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/18/wfalc18.xml (853 words)

	Tell us where the body is - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Joanne Lees made her emotional plea on the steps of the Northern Territory Supreme Court in Darwin after Murdoch, 47, was sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering Peter Falconio.
		Joanne's statement came after Murdoch had been found guilty of murdering Mr Falconio four years ago and abducting and assaulting her about 200 miles north of Alice Springs.
		Miss Lees also told the murder trial that her attacker was driving a white four-wheeled drive vehicle, similar to a Toyota Landcruiser, which had a dark-coloured canopy over its rear.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /news/5046782.html (930 words)

	The World Today Archive - Joanne Lees victim of cynicism
		JOHN HIGHFIELD: One of Australia's leading criminologists says rumour and gossip surrounding the British tourist, Joanne Lees, over the abduction of her boyfriend, Peter Falconio, in the Northern Territory, reflect a disturbing Australian cynicism towards young women who are victims of crime.
		Were Joanne to have been a staid middle-age British tourist travelling in a luxury car, her account of events would never have been questioned.
		Joanne speaks to her mother and Luciano, and Paul speaks to me and Nicholas.
	www.abc.net.au /worldtoday/stories/s338068.htm (962 words)

	NZOOM - ONE News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Lees has criticised the police investigation into the shooting and presumed murder of her boyfriend Peter Falconio on the Stuart Highway, north of Alice Springs, on July 14 last year.
		Lees has sold her remarkable story of escaping the gunman to a British television network for a reported $100,000, reneging on a promise that it was not for sale.
		Lees also used the interview to vent her disgust with Barrow Creek hotelier Helen Jones who was her constant companion for more than three days after the tragedy.
	onenews.nzoom.com /onenews_detail/0,1227,88318-1-9,00.html (504 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Suspect identified in court in Falconio murder case
		JOANNE Lees has identified Bradley John Murdoch as the man who attacked her and allegedly murdered her boyfriend, Peter Falconio, in outback Australia four years ago.
		In an emotional day of evidence in the Supreme Court in Darwin, Lees told the jury that the man sitting before her in the dock was the same man who had pointed a gun at her head through the window of the camper van that she and Falconio, 28, were travelling in.
		Lees was then allegedly assaulted, tied up and dumped in the back of her assailant's truck.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=2107852005 (492 words)

	The Case of Bradley Murdoch/Peter Falconio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Lees claimed she was gagged, bound and bundled into the back of the kidnapper’s four-wheeled drive.
		There is also the issue of the affair Lees was having with a man named ‘Nick’, who Lees even agreed to meet whilst the police were hunting Falconio’s killer, the affair which Lees denied until confronted with documentary evidence and whose identity she still refuses to reveal.
		In the case of Peter Falconio even the best witness, Joanne Lees, can only say that she heard the sound of a gunshot or a vehicle backfiring and there was the presence of Falconio’s blood on the road.
	www.unsolved-crimes.com /scottl.html (1873 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Aus man on trial for tourist murder
		Lees will be the star witness at the committal hearing beginning in Darwin on Monday of Bradley John Murdoch, a 45 year-old truck driver charged with the July 2001 shooting of British holiday maker Peter Falconio and assaulting and abducting Lees.
		Lees and Falconio were in the eighth month of a world trip when tragedy struck on July 14, 2001, along the Stuart Highway north of the central Australian town of Alice Springs.
		Lees told police the couple had been driving north just after dark when a man in a Toyota pick-up truck drew alongside and indicated a problem with their car.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/324270.htm (562 words)

	Persons Missing : Home of The Missing Persons Register - Barrow Creek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Ms Lees and her 28-year-old boyfriend were ambushed 300km north of Alice Springs on July 14 last year by a gunman who tricked them into stopping their campervan near Barrow Creek.
		Lees, 28, could be in line for up to $A50,000 in compensation under a government scheme for victims of crime.
		Lees, from Almondbury in West Yorkshire, was tied up by a gunman who is believed to have shot her boyfriend in July last year in central Australia.
	www.personsmissing.com /barrowcreek7.html (590 words)

	The vindication of Joanne Lees - theage.com.au
		Joanne Lees is said to be both happy and sad about the DNA result.
		To all those who came to know her, there could never be any doubting the story Joanne Lees told when she stumbled on to a lonely Northern Territory road, bound and gagged.
		Ms Lees' stepfather said yesterday he had been confident since the DNA tests were conducted that they would point to the man in custody in South Australia as a chief suspect.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/10/10/1034222543639.html (1066 words)

	CNN.com - Police consider hypnotism in Outback ambush case - August 2, 2001
		Lees, who has re-enacted the ambush for police, said she was bound and gagged and had a bag pulled over her head but managed to escape.
		Lees, who has shunned talking to the media about her ordeal, said she eventually was able to flag down a passing truck and escape the area.
		Lees mother spoke out Thursday criticizing those who have questioned her daughter's version of events, saying the DNA sample verified her story.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/08/02/australia.crime.hypno (450 words)

	Why do the media judge Joanne Lees? - Pamela Bone - www.theage.com.au
		However, I do know that Joanne Lees was dressed in "the same outfit" she wore the last time she gave evidence in this court, because I heard it on the ABC news.
		Joanne Lees flew out of Australia on Thursday, leaving behind "the biggest sensation in her troubled life: a reluctant courtroom confession that she had a secret liaison in Sydney shortly before her boyfriend Peter Falconio vanished", said the story on page 1 of this newspaper.
		Now she is reportedly so fed up with the media chasing her that she arranged a deal to have one photographer film her, which would be paid for, and for the money to go to the Victims of Crime association that had helped her in the past.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/28/1085641710420.html (868 words)

	S. C. Lomax: Peter Falconio and Bradley Murdoch
		Lees has spoken of how they had seen a man who was having problems with his truck and he had motioned them to stop so that he could be helped.
		Lees claims that moments later the man opened the door to the camper van and grabbed her and bound her, with her hands tied behind her back.
		Lees was bundled into the back of the man's truck, she says.
	www.sclomax.co.uk /falconiomurdoch.htm (1124 words)

	The bit of a lad who was Joanne's lover - National - www.smh.com.au
		It is not known if Lees was in the bar on this night, but the Herald can reveal that her relationship with the man she called "Steph" on a secret email account was as intense as it was brief.
		Every Thursday night for a month between May and June, Lees would tell her longtime boyfriend, Peter Falconio, that she was going out for the night to stay with a girlfriend.
		To those who knew her during the weekly rendezvous, Joanne Lees was just another good looking and engaging young backpacker among the hundreds who flock to Australia each year.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/28/1085641715303.html (932 words)

	spiked-life \| Article \| The other Outback trial
		Joanne Lees was found guilty by the media for refusing to play the role of traumatised victim.
		Like Lees, she was regarded as untrustworthy because she was seen as unemotional and 'unfeminine' during the case.
		Lees' 'crime', it seems, was to be an uppity woman who refused to play the emotionally traumatised victim for the cameras.
	www.spiked-online.com /articles/0000000CAED6.htm (738 words)

	The Mercury: Lees to launch Falconio book [22mar06] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Ms Lees - who is in Australia at the moment - says she is determined to "set the record straight" with her book, the fifth to be published on the enduring outback mystery.
		Despite being bound and assaulted, Ms Lees managed to escape, and hid, terrified, under a bush for hours before she was able to give the alarm.
		Ms Lees, a constant presence in the Northern Territory Supreme Court during Murdoch's high-profile eight-week trial, has recounted her terrifying ordeal twice in court –; during the committal hearing and Supreme Court trial.
	themercury.news.com.au /common/story_page/0,5936,18562881^421,00.html (545 words)

	CNN.com - Drug runner guilty of outback murder - Dec 15, 2005
		Lees told the court Murdoch then put a gun to her head and bound her wrists with homemade handcuffs, but she escaped into bushes.
		Inside the court Lees, whose other personal relationships had been the subject of newspaper reports ever since her boyfriend's disappearance, sat shaking in the public gallery as the jurors returned to their seats, PA said.
		Lees said Murdoch then put a gun to her face and tied her up, but she escaped and hid under bushes until he drove off.
	cnn.com /rssclick/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/13/outback.trial?... (1518 words)

	CNN.com - Outback victim reunited with stepfather - July 19, 2001
		Falconio and Lees were driving after watching the sunset when a white four-wheel drive utility vehicle drove up alongside.
		Lees told police the gunman then bound her hands, feet and mouth and threw her into the back of his vehicle.
		Police say they are still searching for the drivers of cars that passed Lees on Saturday night when she was hiding next to the road.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/07/19/outback.reunited (515 words)

	S. C. Lomax: Crime in the News
		However, when one considers that he murdered Joanne, dumped her body and pretended she had gone missing, even appealing publicly for people to come forward with information about her whereabouts, it is clear that Dyson is an evil man who should never be allowed to mix with the public again.
		Joanne Lees told the court she believed Murdoch was the man who murdered Falconio.
		Joanne’s body has not been found but detectives say they have ‘intelligence’ suggesting her body is in a rural area in Yorkshire, beside a farm gate, near woodland and that there are green bottles near to the gate.
	www.sclomax.co.uk /crimeinthenews.htm (14963 words)

	Guardian \| DNA 'points to outback abduction by gunman'
		The mother of Joanne Lees, whose boyfriend is feared to have been murdered in the Australian outback, last night said that the discovery of DNA evidence backed her daughter's version of events.
		Despite rumour and speculation police have always maintained Ms Lees is not a suspect and say they accept her account that a gunman tricked the couple into stopping their van.
		Ms Lees said she heard a shot and saw a man waving a gun in the headlights; the gunman tied her up but she managed to escape and hide in scrub off the highway before being rescued.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4233100-103690,00.html (442 words)

	Scotsman.com News - International - Lees cowered 'like a rabbit' from attacker
		BRITISH backpacker Joanne Lees cowered "like a rabbit" in desert scrub in the Australian Outback after an armed drug runner shot her boyfriend Peter Falconio on a deserted highway in 2001, a court heard today.
		Ms Lees said the last time she saw her boyfriend alive was when she looked through the window and saw a man holding a revolver to his head.
		The man then forced her at gunpoint to tie her hands together, binding them himself with duct tape and cable ties and bundling her into the van with a sack over her head, it was claimed.
	news.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=2102612005 (811 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Man on trial for Falconio outback murder
		Ms Lees could see light seeping in from the bottom end of the canopy, and slid down the vehicle on her back before dropping over the edge, Mr Wild said.
		He said she ran straight into the bush until she was about 100 ft from the side of the road and 200 ft from where the attack had taken place.
		From there, the court was told she heard a conversation between her boyfriend and the other driver about sparks coming from the back of their van, after which Mr Falconio returned, asked her to rev the engine of the van and returned to the back of the vehicle with his cigarettes.
	www.guardian.co.uk /australia/story/0,12070,1594115,00.html (1028 words)

	PNG Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Joanne Lees made plans to meet her lover after the death of her boyfriend, Peter Falconio, an Australian court was told yesterday.
		JOANNE Lees flew back home to Britain last night after confessing in court that she had a lover in Australia while living with Peter Falconio.
		Scotsman Joanne Lees was flying home to Britain tonight after confessing in court that she had a lover in Aus...
	archive.wn.com /2004/05/28/1400/pngpost (802 words)

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