Fibre evidence linked schoolboy Gerard Ross's murder to Claremont serial killings
Evidence presented at the trial suggests that police at one stage considered the same person may have been responsible for the Claremont killings and Gerard's murder.
But investigators did not consider them relevant as they matched the blue overshoe covers used by police at crime scenes and the green mortuary sheets used by mortuary staff. Defence counsel Paul Yovich SC began cross-examining Mr Powell today and sought to highlight the vast numbers of fibres collected that did not match Edwards's car or clothing.
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