STALKING CLAREMONT EXTRACT: On a hot summer's Saturday night in February 1995, Lisa (not her real name) an athletic seventeen-year-old, borrowed her older sister's driver's licence for a night out that was to end, as usual, at a nightclub in the suburb of Claremont, close to where she lived.
The village looked and felt safe, unlike the central-city nightclub strip of Northbridge, which had a reputation for alcohol- and drug-fuelled violence.
This protective ambience, tragically, provided a false sense of security. Because, in the early morning hours, Claremont's dark underbelly was exposed. More than twenty reports had been made to police in the late 1980s and early 1990s of young women in the vicinity of Claremont at night being followed and pounced on or groped indecently, and attempts made to rape them or drag them into cars.