A woman attacked by the man accused of carrying out the Claremont serial killings has recounted how she told her attacker she loved him, thinking it was her boyfriend.
Bradley Robert Edwards recently pleaded guilty to deprivation of liberty during a break-in at Huntingdale in Perth’s southeast in 1988, but denies murdering Sarah Spiers, 18, Jane Rimmer, 23, and Ciara Glennon, 27, in 1996 and 1997.
“There was no noise but then a hand came over my mouth,” she said. “I said ‘it’s OK, I won’t scream’. Bradley Robert Edwards has pleaded guilty to deprivation of liberty but denies murder. Picture: AAP Image/Supplied by Anne BarnetsonShe said she could feel him reach behind himself, then he tried to cover her mouth with a piece of cloth, but she managed to say “I love you”.
The former Telstra technician, who lived in the area and knew the woman, left behind knotted black stockings, a piece of fabric and a silk kimono, which is central to the case.
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