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A UK backpacker was raped, assaulted and choked during a two-month hostage ordeal in Australia, police have said. Megan Palin is a journalist from News Corp Australia. She told Eddie Mair that the authorities were first alerted after the woman went into a petrol station with visible facial injuries. (Photo: The vehicle the backpacker was using. Credit: APN Western Star via Associated Press).