The man left shortly after check-in and did not return. Police checks revealed the guest was 46-year-old Peter John van de Wetering, a towering drifter wanted for questioning over the 2007 ...

Peter van de Wetering was sentenced to nine years in prison for drugging, restraining and raping a backpacker The 56-year-old was due for parole next Friday The judge found there were "important ...

The Queensland Attorney-General is urgently trying to stop Peter John Van de Wetering from being released from jail on October 6 this year. Van de Wetering was jailed for nine years in 2016 after ...

Peter Van de Wetering was jailed for nine years and declared a serious violent offender in 2016 after he pleaded guilty to several violent offences dating back to 2013, including kidnapping ...

Peter Van de Wetering was jailed for nine years in 2016, including time already served, after he pleaded guilty to several violent offences, including kidnapping, rape and administering a ...

A man who drugged and raped a German backpacker he lured to a remote Queensland farm will be released from prison under a supervision order after winning an appeal. Peter van de Wetering was ...

A man who kidnapped, drugged and raped a backpacker at a Queensland farm gave an “illogical narrative” of the incident while in jail and was a “high” risk of committing a serious offence ...