Telstra van man was prowling highway looking for 'damsels in distress', Claremont trial told

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Telstra van man was prowling highway looking for 'damsels in distress', Claremont trial told
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A witness in the Claremont serial killings trial testifies she was accosted by a man who said he worked for Telstra, after accepting a lift from him in his white work van.

A witness in the Claremont serial killings trial has testified she was accosted by a man who said he worked for Telstra, after accepting a lift from him in his white work van a month before Sarah Spiers vanished.

Ms Jones told the court she had been at a wedding reception with her boyfriend at the Albion Hotel in Cottesloe, a suburb adjacent to Claremont, in December 1995. The couple had a row after he hooked up with his younger brother's girlfriend and she broke up with him, walking off along Stirling Highway in search of a taxi to take her back to her car, which was parked at his parents' house in Innaloo.A timeline of the key events and the subsequent investigation by police — a murder inquiry spanning two decades and hundreds of potential suspects.

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