Accused Claremont killer Bradley Robert Edwards’s expletive-laden reaction at arrest airs in court

‘I’m innocent’: Accused Claremont serial killer’s expletive-laden reaction as he was arrested and charged with the murder of three women is revealed for the first time

• Bradley Robert Edwards accused of murdering three women in 1996 and 1997
• Footage of his expletive-laden reaction when he was arrested was aired in court
• The Western Australian man exclaimed ‘what the f***’ when accused of murder
• The 51-year-old maintains his innocence

By Australian Associated Press

Published: 12:24 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 13:08 BST, 5 May 2020

The accused Claremont serial killer swore, expressed disbelief and proclaimed his innocence after police stormed his home in an early morning raid and arrested him.

Footage of Bradley Robert Edwards, a former Telstra technician hearing the allegations against him for the first time in December 2016 was played at his epic Supreme Court of Western Australia trial on Tuesday.

Cuffed and sitting on the floor in his Kewdale house, the 51-year-old, exclaimed ‘what the f***’ after detectives told him he was suspected of murdering secretary Sarah Spiers, childcare worker Jane Rimmer and solicitor Ciara Glennon in 1996 and 1997.

He used the same expletive when told he was also suspected of abducting a teenager from a Claremont park and raping her at nearby Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995 – which he admitted the month before his trial started in November.

Bradley Robert Edwards (pictured) is accused of murdering secretary Sarah Spiers, childcare worker Jane Rimmer and solicitor Ciara Glennon in 1996 and 1997

Edwards is accused of murdering childcare worker Jane Rimmer (left) and secretary Sarah Spiers (right)  in 1996 and 1997

Edwards asked ‘who?’ when further accused of breaking into a Huntingdale home and indecently assaulting a sleeping woman in 1988, which he also confessed to last year.

‘You’ve got to be joking,’ he said as detectives read his rights.

‘My head is spinning.

‘I understand. I’m just trying to process what’s going on.’

When prompted to ask questions, he said: ‘Why me? I’m innocent.’

Edwards was repeatedly asked if he wanted a lawyer but declined.

‘I don’t know what to do,’ he said during his interview at cold case homicide squad headquarters.

‘I just want to go to sleep and wake up and this will be all a bad dream.

‘What you’ve accused me of, they’re obviously serious things.

‘I’m innocent – I don’t know why you’re accusing me of them.’

Ciara Glennon, 27, the third victim of the Claremont serial killer, allegedly Edwards 

Edwards said he ‘vaguely’ remembered the Huntingdale woman’s name as she lived nearby when he was young, he’d known her indirectly and once visited her home for a swim.

Asked if he had been back to her property, he replied: ‘Not that I can ever remember’.

Edwards insisted he had ‘not much’ association with the Claremont area and replied ‘yep’ when asked if he was positive he hadn’t been to Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995.

He had his head slumped in his hand when asked why his DNA was associated with the offences, including the murder of Ms Spiers, whose body has never been found.

‘I can’t believe what you’re saying,’ he said.

‘I’m being as honest as I can with you guys about everything.’

Samples of his DNA were taken, but police already had it on file, having covertly taken it from a soft drink bottle he discarded while at the cinema with his stepdaughter.

Showing the interview video – in which Edwards reveals one of his social media user names is Bogeyman – marks the end of the prosecution case.

They allege DNA on a kimono he left behind at the Huntingdale house matched DNA found underneath Ms Glennon’s fingernails, which partly broke off as she fought her attacker.

The state also says fibres from his work trousers and Telstra-issued car were found on the rape victim, Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon.

The defence team has argued the evidence could have been contaminated.

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