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Claremont killer Bradley Robert Edwards has been sentenced to life in prison with a non-parole period of 40 years.
Edwards, who terrorised Perth s suburbs for almost a decade, showed no emotion in the Supreme Court of WA on Wednesday after receiving his sentence, which was greeted with applause in the public gallery, including from family members of his victims.
He was convicted in September of abducting and killing Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27, in 1996 and 1997.
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Edwards, 52, was found not guilty of the 1996 murder of 18-year-old secretary Sarah Spiers.
All three women disappeared after a night out with friends in affluent Claremont. The bodies of childcare worker Ms Rimmer and solicitor Ms Glennon were discovered in bushland weeks after they were killed but Ms Spiers body has never been found.
Claremont killer Bradley Edwards to be sentenced for murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon
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Justice Stephen Hall (right) is due to sentence Bradley Edwards after convicting him in September.
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When Bradley Robert Edwards is sentenced in the WA Supreme Court this week for murdering two young women and violently assaulting two others, it will draw a line under a dark chapter of the state s history.
Key points:
He was convicted of murdering two women but acquitted of killing a third
He could face life in prison without parole
But he was acquitted of a third murder, that of 18-year-old Sarah Spiers, the only one of three young women who vanished from the streets of upmarket Claremont over a 14-month period whose body has never been found.
Bradley Edwards - the man now known as the Claremont killer - will learn today whether he has any prospect of ever being released from prison. In what will be one of the final acts in WA s longest and largest murder investigation, Edwards will be formally sentenced in WA s Supreme Court for the murders of Jane Rimmer in 1996 and Ciara Glennon in 1997. He will also learn his fate over the attacks on two young women - the first in her own bedroom in Huntingdale in 1988 as well as the horrifying rape of another teenager at Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995. Having received lengthy written submissions from prosecution and defence, Justice Stephen Hall will be the judge who will decide Edwards fate.