On 13 August 2011, a Perth man was taken into custody and charged with Morcombe's
murder and other offences, including
child stealing, deprivation of liberty, indecent treatment of a child under 16, and interfering with a corpse. In 2006, the man had admitted to police that he travelled the road from which Morcombe disappeared on the same day of his disappearance, on his way to purchase marijuana from a drug dealer.[SUP]
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[13][/SUP] The accused was subsequently named as 41-year-old Brett Peter Cowan (AKA Brett Peter Cohen).[SUP]
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