FED:Timeline of events so far in Pulver case

AAP General News (Australia)
08-16-2011
FED:Timeline of events so far in Pulver case

Timeline of events in the Madeleine Pulver bomb hoax case:

August 3, Wednesday:

* Sometime before 2.30pm (AEST) a balaclava-clad male breaks into the Mosman family
home of Madeleine Pulver and corners the 18-year-old schoolgirl.

* About 2.30pm police are called and told an intruder has chained a bomb around Madeleine's
neck before fleeing.

* Police send local officers Constable Karen Lowden and a probationary constable to
the Pulver home in Burrawong Avenue.

* Police lock down the area, barricading side streets and evacuating neighbours living
adjacent to the Pulver home.

* Officer Lowden begins her own three-hour ordeal, keeping Madeleine company and chatting
with her about her HSC trials. Both believe the device is a bomb.

* Scores of emergency personnel including the Bomb Squad technicians, police negotiators,
firefighters and paramedics arrive.

* Around 4pm media converge on the area and report live throughout the night and into
the next day.

* Bomb Squad technicians moves into the house around 5.30pm and try to determine the
contents of the suspected bomb. Officer Lowden leaves the home.

August 4, Thursday:

* About 12.30am, the Bomb Squad safely removes the device from around Madeleine's neck
and paramedics take her to hospital where she is evaluated and released.

* Later police say the elaborate device did not contain explosives.

* Father Bill Pulver, with wife Belinda, thanks officers and personnel who helped his
daughter during her ordeal.

* Police strike force Haddon is set up to investigate.

August 8, Monday:

* Businessman Paul "Doug" Peters allegedly departs Sydney on a flight to the United States.

* Madeleine returns to Wenona School, where she is a student and prepares to sit HSC trial exams.

August 9-15:

* NSW Police request help from the US FBI to find and arrest Mr Peters.

August 16, Tuesday:

* About 6am (AEST) Sydney time, an FBI SWAT team arrests Mr Peters at the home of his
ex-wife in La Grange, 50km from Louisville, ahead of an expected court appearance the
following day.

* Mr Pulver hopes "this development marks the beginning of the end of this traumatic
ordeal for our family".

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