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Joanne Lees returns to Australia to raise money for memorial for Peter Falconio
Joanne Lees, a victim in the outback crime that gripped Australia more than fifteen years ago, has returned to Australia to raise money for a memorial for her murdered boyfriend.The 43 year old has returned on a mission to honour Peter Falconio who was shot dead with a roadside memorial to help warn travellers of the potential dangers of the outback, according to The Daily Telegraph.Lees, who works as a social worker in her hometown of Huddersfield, was involved in one of the greatest crime mysteries to be played out in the Australian outback where Bradley Murdoch executed her boyfriend on July 14, 2001.However, she has since returned and has been living quietly in Sydney and Canberra since May.Back in August this year, it is reported Lees met with Aboriginal elders in Ti Tree, 200km north of Alice Springs, to discuss a memorial and the Aborigines also agreed to continue to look for the remains of Peter Falconio.Ti Tree was the last place her and Falconio watched the sunset together and she does not want the memorial at the murder site near Barrow Creek because it was too painful.In her trip to Ti Tree, Lees was accompanied with Libby Andrew, the former police officer who Van Cleef & Arpels ring imitation stayed with her in the aftermath of the 2001 murder. Photo / APThe funds will be raised in an an exclusive, one day sale of Aboriginal Art in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Women's Centre on October 28, with the sculpture to be a car sized bird called 'Falcon Dreaming'.Lees' art event is supported by 2015 Australian of the Year anti violence campaigner Rosie Batty and will be opened by the British High Commissioner.The trip to Australia is only the second time she has been back since 2001, when Lees and Peter Falconio, who was 28 at the time, were touring Australia in a VW Kombi campervan when they were ambushed as they drove north to Alice Springs by Interstate drug runner and trucker Bradley Murdoch.Although she escaped Murdoch's attempts to hunt her down by hiding in the Outback, near Alice Springs, she then found herself a prime suspect for the murder even though Murdoch's blood was discovered on her T shirt. The drifter was eventually found guilty and is currently serving a 28 year sentence.In the ensuing court case, Joanne recounted how she and Falconio had been followed by a four wheel drive vehicle, the driver of which signalled them to stop because of an apparent problem with the exhaust.It was when Falconio got out of the VW to talk to the man who had pulled up behind them that she heard what she thought was a shot. Then that stranger, with his long dark hair and moustache, appeared at the side of the vehicle and dragged her out.She fought, bit and scratched at the man on the ground before she was thrown into the front cabin of his vehicle.As he attended to something at the rear of the VW she told police, she scrambled over the front seats of the man's van into the rear, before dropping to the road and dashing into the darkness of the roadside bushes.She remained there for five hours as the man and his dog came looking for her before he went away and she found the courage to run to the road and wave down a passing truck and raise the alarm. Falconio's body has never been found.The court hearing in Darwin, northern Australia, saw the brutish 6ft 4in rogue, who in his earlier years had been convicted of causing a death by dangerous driving and had been jailed for a gun offence, sentenced to life in jail after a speck of his DNA was found on Joanne's t shirt.Recalling the night Falconio was killed, Lees told the court they had been followed by a vehicle when the driver signalled them to stop due to an apparent problem with the exhaust. Photo / SuppliedBut Joanne is serving her own sentence, for she must live with the memories of the tragic incident.For the last eight years, she has lived away from the public eye in a two bedroomed Van Cleef & Arpels gold ring copy terraced house in Berry Brow, Huddersfield, a working class village blighted by high unemployment and soaring crime rates.Instead, Joanne has thrown herself into her work. When she returned to normal life after her boyfriend's death, she vowed to go back to college, and studied Sociology at Sheffield University.Now she works as a social worker at the Directorate for Children and Young People for Kirklees Council.Her life has become work and sleep, and she does not appear to have family close by. Her mother Jennifer tragically died of lupus only a year after her boyfriend's murder in June 2002. Her stepfather Vince James, whom she used to be very close to, now rarely sees her. Her Van Cleef & Arpels ring copy only half brother, Andrew James, is not close to her.In an interview with Woman's Day last year, Vince James said: 'Nine times out of time she won't answer the phone, it's difficult to get hold of her, I don't know why. She works full time, she's a social worker of some sort. I don't see her as much. She goes to bed early, she gets up early in the morning, it's difficult to see her. You'd have to ask her why.'Joanne's quiet lifestyle is a far cry from a decade ago when she seemed to embrace the limelight, releasing a book called No Turning Back. However, said the book was simply to help other victims like her.
Joanne Lees, a victim in the outback crime that gripped Australia more than fifteen years ago, has returned to Australia to raise money for a memorial for her murdered boyfriend.The 43 year old has returned on a mission to honour Peter Falconio who was shot dead with a roadside memorial to help warn travellers of the potential dangers of the outback, according to The Daily Telegraph.Lees, who works as a social worker in her hometown of Huddersfield, was involved in one of the greatest crime mysteries to be played out in the Australian outback where Bradley Murdoch executed her boyfriend on July 14, 2001.However, she has since returned and has been living quietly in Sydney and Canberra since May.Back in August this year, it is reported Lees met with Aboriginal elders in Ti Tree, 200km north of Alice Springs, to discuss a memorial and the Aborigines also agreed to continue to look for the remains of Peter Falconio.Ti Tree was the last place her and Falconio watched the sunset together and she does not want the memorial at the murder site near Barrow Creek because it was too painful.In her trip to Ti Tree, Lees was accompanied with Libby Andrew, the former police officer who Van Cleef & Arpels ring imitation stayed with her in the aftermath of the 2001 murder. Photo / APThe funds will be raised in an an exclusive, one day sale of Aboriginal Art in Melbourne's Queen Victoria Women's Centre on October 28, with the sculpture to be a car sized bird called 'Falcon Dreaming'.Lees' art event is supported by 2015 Australian of the Year anti violence campaigner Rosie Batty and will be opened by the British High Commissioner.The trip to Australia is only the second time she has been back since 2001, when Lees and Peter Falconio, who was 28 at the time, were touring Australia in a VW Kombi campervan when they were ambushed as they drove north to Alice Springs by Interstate drug runner and trucker Bradley Murdoch.Although she escaped Murdoch's attempts to hunt her down by hiding in the Outback, near Alice Springs, she then found herself a prime suspect for the murder even though Murdoch's blood was discovered on her T shirt. The drifter was eventually found guilty and is currently serving a 28 year sentence.In the ensuing court case, Joanne recounted how she and Falconio had been followed by a four wheel drive vehicle, the driver of which signalled them to stop because of an apparent problem with the exhaust.It was when Falconio got out of the VW to talk to the man who had pulled up behind them that she heard what she thought was a shot. Then that stranger, with his long dark hair and moustache, appeared at the side of the vehicle and dragged her out.She fought, bit and scratched at the man on the ground before she was thrown into the front cabin of his vehicle.As he attended to something at the rear of the VW she told police, she scrambled over the front seats of the man's van into the rear, before dropping to the road and dashing into the darkness of the roadside bushes.She remained there for five hours as the man and his dog came looking for her before he went away and she found the courage to run to the road and wave down a passing truck and raise the alarm. Falconio's body has never been found.The court hearing in Darwin, northern Australia, saw the brutish 6ft 4in rogue, who in his earlier years had been convicted of causing a death by dangerous driving and had been jailed for a gun offence, sentenced to life in jail after a speck of his DNA was found on Joanne's t shirt.Recalling the night Falconio was killed, Lees told the court they had been followed by a vehicle when the driver signalled them to stop due to an apparent problem with the exhaust. Photo / SuppliedBut Joanne is serving her own sentence, for she must live with the memories of the tragic incident.For the last eight years, she has lived away from the public eye in a two bedroomed Van Cleef & Arpels gold ring copy terraced house in Berry Brow, Huddersfield, a working class village blighted by high unemployment and soaring crime rates.Instead, Joanne has thrown herself into her work. When she returned to normal life after her boyfriend's death, she vowed to go back to college, and studied Sociology at Sheffield University.Now she works as a social worker at the Directorate for Children and Young People for Kirklees Council.Her life has become work and sleep, and she does not appear to have family close by. Her mother Jennifer tragically died of lupus only a year after her boyfriend's murder in June 2002. Her stepfather Vince James, whom she used to be very close to, now rarely sees her. Her Van Cleef & Arpels ring copy only half brother, Andrew James, is not close to her.In an interview with Woman's Day last year, Vince James said: 'Nine times out of time she won't answer the phone, it's difficult to get hold of her, I don't know why. She works full time, she's a social worker of some sort. I don't see her as much. She goes to bed early, she gets up early in the morning, it's difficult to see her. You'd have to ask her why.'Joanne's quiet lifestyle is a far cry from a decade ago when she seemed to embrace the limelight, releasing a book called No Turning Back. However, said the book was simply to help other victims like her.
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