The girlfriend of a British backpacker believed murdered in the Australian Outback was hypnotised to try to get her to remember evidence that might help the police.
Joanne Lees, from Hove in East Sussex, underwent hypnotherapy about a fortnight after she and boyfriend Peter Falconio were allegedly attacked, a court in Australia heard yesterday.
But magistrates in Darwin were not told whether the treatment produced any new evidence, the Daily Mail reports.
Miss Lees has claimed at the pre-trial hearing that her boyfriend was shot after they were ambushed on a remote highway in the Northern Territory in July 2001. Mr Falconio’s body has never been found.
Australian mechanic Bradley John Murdoch is accused of murdering him and abducting and assaulting Miss Lees.
The hearing is to establish if there is sufficient evidence against him to warrant a jury trial.
