The drug runner found guilty of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Australian Outback in 2001 has lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence.
Lawyers for Bradley Murdoch, 48, argued last month that he had suffered a "substantial miscarriage of justice" at his trial in Darwin, Australia, in 2005.
But Darwin's Northern Territory Court of Criminal Appeal dismissed the appeal unanimously.
Murdoch is serving a life sentence for murdering 28-year-old Mr Falconio, from Hepworth in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, on a remote stretch of highway near Barrow Creek, about 200 miles north of Alice Springs.
The mechanic was also found guilty of abducting and assaulting Mr Falconio's girlfriend, Joanne Lees, a 33-year-old support worker.
The three judges were Acting Chief Justice David Angel, Justice Trevor Riley, and Acting Justice Trevor Olsson.
They said that the core issue in the case was the identity of the assailant - and blood on Miss Lees' T-shirt established "beyond reasonable doubt" that Murdoch was present when she was attacked.
The judges found: "In our opinion the presence of the blood of the appellant upon the T-shirt of Ms Lees establishes beyond reasonable doubt the presence of the appellant at the time Ms Lees was attacked just north of Barrow Creek.
"When this evidence is considered along with the other evidence properly admitted at trial of events occurring at that location, the guilt of the appellant of the murder of Peter Falconio is established beyond reasonable doubt."
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