Backpacker accused 'agitated and nervous'

Two friends of the man accused of murdering backpacker Caroline Stuttle told a court today that he had admitted he had done something wrong.

Melina Ross, 25, said that Ian Previte had called on her on the morning after Miss Stuttle, 19, from York, was thrown from the Burnett River Bridge in Australia in April 2002.

She told Bundaberg Supreme Court: "He said he had done something very silly but he wouldn't say what it was. He seemed agitated, nervous and was red in the face."

Ms Ross's partner Adam Chandler said he declined some drugs, saying the last time he had taken them "he had done something bad". Previte, 32, an addict and drifter, denies robbery and murder. The trial continues.