Killer's final police interview footage released

BySimon Atkinson

Reporting fromQueensland, Australia

Police successful Australia person released bodycam footage of an interrogation with the antheral who murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio - arsenic they tried to get him to uncover the determination of the body.

Falconio, from Huddersfield, was changeable dormant connected a distant agelong of road adjacent the Northern Territory municipality of Barrow Creek, astir 186 miles (300km) northbound of Alice Springs successful July 2001.

Killer Bradley Murdoch, 67, died successful jailhouse past twelvemonth with pharynx crab without disclosing wherever his remains mightiness be.

The footage was released by Northern Territory constabulary up of the 25th day of his disappearance, with the unit saying it "remains committed to bringing this probe to its fullest conclusion".

In the video, a constabulary serviceman tin beryllium heard saying to Murdoch: "I request you to person a deliberation astir if Peter Falconio was your son… and idiosyncratic knew thing astir wherever his assemblage was."

Murdoch, dressed successful a greenish situation jumper, replies: "I don't cognize thing astir it."

He adds: "Don't bushed astir the bush due to the fact that I'm conscionable going to chopped you abbreviated everytime, okay?

"I cognize nothing. I've said this for 22 years. I cognize nothing. You support asking these questions. I cognize nothing."

Asked to deliberation astir it again, helium gives an expletive-filled answer, earlier saying: "I'm not reasoning astir it. I've thought about. I thought astir it for 22 years.

"I've said the aforesaid communicative implicit and implicit and over, and present you're present astatine the past infinitesimal due to the fact that I'm dying.

"I don't person information. This is what I'm trying to accidental to you. I don't person this information."

Falconio had been travelling astir Australia with his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, besides from Huddersfield, erstwhile helium was murdered.

During his proceedings successful December 2005, the tribunal heard Murdoch, who was past 43, pulled up beside their vehicle, claiming to person seen sparks coming from the camper van Falconio was driving.

He past changeable Falconio successful the caput arsenic helium inspected the vehicle, earlier taking 28-year-old Lees into his car and binding her wrists with cablegram ties.

She managed to flight by hiding successful outback scrub for respective hours earlier she was capable to question down 2 men driving a truck.

Murdoch was convicted of Falconio's sidesplitting by a unanimous assemblage verdict, and helium was besides recovered blameworthy of the battle and attempted kidnap of Lees.

He had ever maintained his innocence, contempt DNA grounds linking him to the crime, and unsuccessfully appealed to overturn his convictions twice.

An inquest into Murdoch's death successful March heard the slayer refused to ticker a video from his victim's parents appealing for his assistance to find their son's body.

A spokesperson from Northern Territory said their "thoughts remained with the Falconio household and Joanne Lees whose nonaccomplishment and uncertainty proceed to beryllium felt 25 years on".

Appealing for accusation they added: "There whitethorn inactive beryllium idiosyncratic who knows something, whether that beryllium accusation they person ne'er antecedently shared with constabulary oregon thing Murdoch said to them.

"We proceed to impulse anyone with accusation relating to the determination of Peter Falconio's remains to travel forward.

"No portion of accusation is excessively small; what whitethorn look insignificant could beryllium captious successful helping investigators yet resoluteness this case."