QLD: Aus police swoop on US man whose wife drowned on reef

AAP General News (Australia)
04-26-2007
QLD: Aus police swoop on US man whose wife drowned on reef

Queensland detectives have swooped on the US home of a man whose young wife died on
the Great Barrier Reef while on their honeymoon in October 2003.

After months of working with the FBI and the Alabama police force .. the officers arrested
GABE WATSON in the town of Hoover.

The Australian newspaper reports the officers produced federal search warrants and
took away computers and several cartons of documents.

TINA WATSON disappeared while scuba diving off Townsville in north Queensland and a
life insurance policy on the 26-year-old .. reportedly worth 1.2 million dollars .. has
been the subject of legal action to prevent a payout.

Mr WATSON .. a US-accredited rescue diver .. has denied killing his wife or acting
recklessly in leaving her to die.

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