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A 51-YEAR-OLD MAN HAS been convicted of the murder of an Irish woman and an Australian woman after one of Australia’s longest and most complex police investigations spanning 20 years.
Bradley Edwards, a former Telstra technician, was found guilty yesterday of intentionally murdering Ciara Glennon, who moved to Australia with her Irish family when she was five years old. He disappeared in March 1997 at the age of 27.
Edwards was also found guilty of deliberately murdering Australian woman Jane Rimmer (23) in June 1996.
He was acquitted of the murder of a third woman, Sarah Spiers (18), whose body was never found.
Judge Stephen Hall said the propensity evidence “makes it more likely” that Edwards was the killer of Sarah Spiers, but said he “cannot prove it beyond a reasonable doubt in the absence of any other evidence as to the identity of her killer. .
Denis and Una Glennon, parents of Ciara Glennon, with their daughter Denise.
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Jenny Rimmer, mother of Jane Rimmer arrives at the Supreme Court of Western Australia in Perth.
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Don and Carol Spiers, Sarah Spiers’ parents.
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Forensic evidence played a key role in the trial.
The three women disappeared from the luxurious Perth suburb of Claremont after a night out between January 1996 and March 1997, shocking the country and sowing fear in the city.
Police followed thousands of leads before arresting Bradley Edwards in Perth in 2016.
– with AFP report. The comments are closed because the sentence is still pending.
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