Maddie collar bomb accused Paul Douglas Peters ready to return to Australia

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The man accused of strapping a fake collar bomb to Madeline Pulver could be returned to Australia as early as this week.



Maddie Pulver

Collar bomb hoax victim … Madeleine Pulver / Pic: Nicholas Welsh
Source: The Daily Telegraph


Paul Peters

Accused collar-bomb hoaxer Paul Peters.
Source: The Daily Telegraph





ACCUSED extortionist and collar-bomb hoaxer Paul Douglas Peters will appear at a brief hearing in the US District Court in Louisville, Kentucky tomorrow (2pm on Wednesday, US time) to make a formal application to waiver his extradition.


It is expected US District Court Magistrate Dave Whalin will ask Peters whether he has made the application of his own free will, to which it is expected he will reply in the affirmative.

NSW police will then be free to collect Peters and return him to Australia to face charges.

Peters’ application to waiver extradition, negotiated between his lawyer, US District Attorney prosecutors, and the lawyers from the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s office in Canberra, means the extradition hearing that was scheduled for Louisville on October 14 will be vacated.

The extradition waiver simplifies the process for NSW police and US authorities, who will not need to deal with complicated legal argument and will also see Peters return to face charges a month earlier than anticipated.

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Paul Douglas Peters was arrested on August 15 at his former wife’s home just north of Louisville after he departed Australia on August 8, five days after he allegedly entered schoolgirl Madeleine Pulver’s bedroom and placed a device around her neck, which she believed was a bomb.

 

A note allegedly attached to the device asked that her family contact an email address to discuss an unspecified ransom payment.

Maddie and the police assisting her suffered a tense 10-hour ordeal until X-rays of the device finally revealed it contained no detonator or explosives and it was removed.

NSW police have sworn out warrants for Mr Peters and will charge him with kidnapping, demanding property by force with intent to steal, and aggravated break and enter.

Once NSW police are fully informed of the proceedings, they will make arrangements to travel to Kentucky and transport Peters back to Australia, where he will be arrested and charged him immediately upon arrival.

 

The news came as a relief to the Pulver family, who had been expecting Mr Peters might return the day before Maddie, 18, sits her first HSC exam.

At the family’s Mosman home yesterday, Maddie’s mother Belinda said it would be a relief to have Mr Peters extradited sooner than expected: “He was meant to come back here the day before Maddie started the HSC, which wasn’t ideal timing.

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“If it is September rather than October he comes back here, that would be good.”

Mrs Pulver said Maddie was continuing to look forward, not backward, and the HSC was her focus.

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“She’s had her life turned upside down … but she’s getting on with things as best she can,” Mrs Pulver said.

“She only has two more weeks of school to go, and then it’s the exams, so it’s a big time for her right now.”

Police have no more role in the extradition’s legal side.

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