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Claremont killer Bradley Edwards to be sentenced for murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon
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:
- Edwards’ marathon trial ran for seven months in Perth
- He was convicted of murdering two women but acquitted of killing a third
- He could face life in prison without parole
Edwards, 52, was convicted in September of the brutal murders of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon more than two decades ago in a case that became widely known as the Claremont serial killings.
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…
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