AN Australian investment banker who admitted chaining a fake bomb to a teenager in a blackmail plot has been jailed for 13-and-a-half years.
Madeleine Pulver, then 18, was studying at home alone in her family's Sydney mansion last August when Paul Peters walked in wearing a ski mask.
He tethered a bomb-like device to her neck along with a ransom note, then slipped away.
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