Brett Peter Cowan an Australian sex offender who was convicted of the murder of Daniel Morcombe in which disappeared from a bus near his home at Woombye on the sunshine coast on the 7th of December 2003. His parents became household names in Queensland through their campaign to find Daniel and making this the attention of people to keep their children safe. The abduction lead to an eight year investigation involving suspects leading up to the undercover police scandal in august 2011.

In cowans early years he became involved in petty crime throughout his late ten years such as breaking and entering and stealing. Peter’s drug and theft offences resulting in being a part of community services in a park in Brisbane. On the 5th of December 1987