The conclusion to the trial of accused Claremont serial killer Bradley Edwards is delayed until next week as technical difficulties and ill health of state prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo SC force an adjournment.
"This is not an overwhelming success is it?" he said after the videolink to Ms Barbagallo was cut again.
"She is valiantly soldiering on, as I would expect her to do given her professionalism, but I would not want her to feel she is obliged to do so.Justice Hall adjourned the trial until Monday.In a brief introduction to her closing argument, Ms Barbagallo said Edwards inflicted the "greatest terror" on the Perth community when he allegedly abducted and wilfully murdered three young women from the affluent Claremont area in 1996 and 1997.
She told the court the normal behaviour of the young women in socialising at Claremont late at night had met with the "abnormal behaviour of an assailant", causing terror in the community from "the great unknown". Edwards, 51, has been on trial since last November for the wilful murders of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon.
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