QLD:Honeymoon killer to face kidnapping

AAP General News (Australia)
08-14-2010
QLD:Honeymoon killer to face kidnapping

Honeymoon killer GABE WATSON could face a US grand jury on potential kidnapping as
well as murder charges for the scuba diving death of his wife in Queensland.

The American is serving 18 months in a Queensland jail after pleading guilty to the
manslaughter of his bride TINA WATSON during a Great Barrier Reef scuba dive in 2003.

He will be released from a Queensland prison in November and is likely to be deported
back to the US.

The chief of the Alabama attorney-general's crime department DON VALESKA says the state
could pursue a kidnapping by deception charge in addition to murder.

He says prosecutors will try to prove WATSON tricked his wife into taking the Australian
holiday .. a trip they say she may have declined had she known WATSON had taken out insurance
on her life behind her back.

Last week a top Alabama official said there was a good chance a murder charge against
WATSON would be brought before a grand jury in the US within the next three months.

AAP RTV lpm/sw

KEYWORD: WATSON (BRISBANE)

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