Joanne Rachael Lees (born 25 September 1973[1]) is a British woman who was attacked and subjected to an attempted abduction while travelling in Australia with her partner Peter Falconio.
[citation needed] She then transferred her job to a local Cook agency, before the couple took short trips to Italy, Greece, and Jamaica.
Expert testimony presented at the trial indicated that Bradley Murdoch was the man captured in the CCTV footage at the service station.
[9] In July 2011, Lees was interviewed by Australia's Woman's Day in the lead-up to the tenth anniversary of the murder of Peter Falconio.
She stated that she was still single and living a solitary life, and had worked at a travel agency and as a social worker with disabled people.
[10] On 12 February 2017, Australia's Nine Network presented a 60 Minutes extended interview with Joanne Lees who "is determined to honour her partner's memory by confronting the awful past."
[11] In March 2007, Channel Ten in Australia presented a docudrama covering events from the night of the murder through to sentencing, from Lees' perspective.