PERTH, Australia A judge on Wednesday ordered a long prison term for a man who killed two women and sexually assaulted two others in Australia’s western city of Perth more than 20 years ago crimes connected years later by fingerprints and DNA tests. Bradley Robert Edwards, 52, was sentenced in the Western Australia […]
A woman who was raped by the Claremont serial killer has come face-to-face with him in court to deliver a powerful victim impact statement.
The victim spoke for the first time in the Supreme Court of Western Australia on Wednesday, as Bradley Robert Edwards was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in jail. I hope you are treated as well in prison as you have treated us, she told a packed courtroom filled with the families of his victims.
Edwards, a former Telstra technician, was convicted in September of abducting and murdering Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27, in 1996 and 1997.
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Bradley Robert Edwards, 51, was convicted of being the Claremont serial killer
Edwards murdered Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27, in Perth in 1996
Justice Stephen Hall cleared him of the murder of a third woman Sarah Spiers, 18
Edwards underwent a lengthy trial after pleaded not guilty to the murders
He has admitted another attack in 1988 and to raping a 17-year-old girl in 1995
Claremont killer Bradley Edwards gets life sentence for murder of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon
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Jane Rimmer (left) and Ciara Glennon (right) were murdered by Claremont killer Bradley Edwards (centre) in 1996 and 1997.
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Claremont killer Bradley Edwards has been told he will most likely die in jail as he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the wilful murders of two young women in a notorious case that shocked the city of Perth.
Key points:
It is the longest ever non-parole period in WA judicial history
Edwards was also sentenced for sexually motivated attacks