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Ms Barbagallo is now going through the maximum penalties for Edwards' seven offences, being one count of break and enter dwelling with intent, two counts of aggravated sexual penetration without consent, two counts of deprivation of liberty, and two counts of murder.
Bradley Edwards
For the break and enter, the maximum penalty is 14 years. For deprivation of liberty, the maximum penalty is 10 years, and for aggravated sexual penetration without consent is 20 years.
Murder is a life sentence, with a minimum non-parole period of 10 years.
She has now begun discussing the state's request Justice Hall make a rare order Edwards 'never be released' from jail.
"The state submits that in all of the circumstances in this case, an order the offender never be released is appropriate," she said.
"We say that this case is so serious, so rare, so exceptional, that the maximum available sentence is appropriate.
"In this case, more than almost all others that come before these courts, the community has a legitimate interest that the courts when confronted with this, will react accordingly."
She called Edwards' offending perverse and that there were no comparable cases in Western Australia for the sake of sentencing.
"Given the number of offences committed over a lengthy period of time and the nature of the offences, we say, like [Bedford murderer Anthony] Harvey, are collectively unspeakable crimes, and the effects it's had on this community over a lengthy period of time sets them apart from those were a non-parole period was imposed," Ms Barbagallo said.
Justice Hall has asked why Edwards should never be released, given others convicted of two murders have not been given 'never to be released' orders.
"What sets them apart is that he has engaged in this behaviour on multiple occasion, and the offending even before Jane was serious it warrants a lengthy term of imprisonment," she said.
"[The murders] resulted in the undermining of a community safety, so these offences, like no other, have had an impact on this community and has changed community behaviours, family, women, mothers, parents behaviours, as to how their young adult children were to behave and the vigilance and the fear that it brought to a community."
Prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo.Credit:Sharon Smith
Prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo is now going through Edwards' murders of Jane and Ciara.
"The offending was not spontaneous, it was planned, premeditated, cold, calculated and repeated," she said.
"[For Jane] it must have been utterly traumatic ... she died trying to defend herself," she said.
"The last moment of Ciara Glennon's life, a woman who was a stranger to the offender, must have been unspeakably awful, she died fighting for her life."
Ms Barbagallo said it was only by "a miracle" that the women's bodies were eventually found, despite Edwards' attempts to conceal them.
She said the murders showed a clear progression of offending for Edwards, from burglar to rapist to murderer.
"The state's submission is there are no mitigating factors [for sentencing]," Ms Barbagallo said, adding while Edwards pleaded guilty in relation to two crimes, the change in plea came three years after his arrest.
She also said Edwards continued to deny the murders and had showed no remorse.
'There's nothing to suggest that the offender's interest in rape and murder of women has abated," she said.
"If there is any suggestion he no longer presents a danger to the community then we refer to some of the evidence we sought to have submitted to the trial, which Your Honour excluded."
She explained the evidence included the Forced Entry pornography film which depicts the rape and murder of women, BDSM pornography found at his address, internet searches found on his computer depicting sexual violence against women, and violent erotic stories found on his computer which he was editing in the days before his 2016 arrest.
Despite Justice Hall ordering a psychiatric report, Edwards refused to speak with the doctor when they attended prison to see him.
The denial means it is unlikely Edwards will provide any insights into his offending.
Jane Rimmer
Ms Barbagallo is now reading the victim impact statement of Jenny Rimmer, Jane's mother.
"How do I put into words what it means to lose a child you've had in your life for 23 years? When I realised Jane was missing, I couldn't believe it," she said.
"Jane wouldn't get into a car, she was very aware of what had happened to Sarah Spiers and would have avoided it.
"I miss Jane every day, she used to call in and see me on her way home from work, it was something I looked forward to.
"My husband was shattered.
"Losing Jane has made a huge difference in all our lives.
"All our lives had changed in an instant.
"I told myself that I can't crumble, I have two other children and I needed to be strong for them ... I had to put my own feelings to one side and just get on with it.
"Every day I was waiting to hear, hoping I would hear something.
"When the offender was charged I was relieved but I wondered about how I would get through months of a trial.
"I believe Jane would have married and had children, she would have been a wonderful mother.
"Jane having children is something I think about and miss."
She said she felt sorry for Edwards' parents.
The Karrakatta victim has taken the stand to give her victim impact statement.
This is the first time she has spoken in the trial. Edwards is looking at her as she speaks.
She said she feels caged by the attack, which she described as the worst night of her life.
She described Edwards as inhuman and said her statement was in her family's honour.
"You don't ever recover from sexual assault, it is a life long sentence, mine has just been more widely discussed than most," she said.
"Should I start with the nights of sleeplessness ... the fear of the dark ... or jumping when the phone rings wondering if they've found him?
"I will never be able to truly convey the impact of being captured and deprived of my liberty.
"By the time I was in his vehicle I was picturing my own grave site."
The woman, now aged in her 40s, is recalling the difficulty of listening to lawyers during the trial "cooly discussing" whether Edwards meant to kill her that night.
"My youth was taken from me for no reason," she said.
"I also felt what was taken from me was my home ... Claremont was just simply my world, it had been where I grew up, went to school, where I socialised, it was my complete childhood and it was where I felt safe."
She said she is determined the attack will not let her define her and labelled Edwards a coward for denying his crime for decades.
She said she constantly had to fight to leave a normal life after the attack.
"You need to constantly pull yourself together every time you were triggered for 25 years," she said.
"It is exhausting and that has impact."
She said her family and friends over the years felt guilty for not getting her home safely that night, but added that was no one's fault but Edwards'.
"It affects anyone who knows you and cares about you," she said.
"While all of this has happened to me I have never let it rule me," she said, adding she made a choice not to be a victim anymore.
"There is power in realising the truth and you don't have to prove it to anyone to find peace ... and that's the path I chose, but only with a lot of love and support," she said.
She recalled how her family used to refer to Edwards as 'the monster' before his arrest.
"He is not a monster at all, rather the definition of a coward, he preyed on young and vulnerable women who didn't stand a chance, how pathetic.
"He slipped through the cracks because he was so unremarakble."
She said she would never forgive Edwards, speaking to him directly.
"I will find joy knowing you are locked behind bars without joy, without choice," she said.
"They say you always remember your first, well in my case I consider my first victory is you, you have made me strong.
"I will live and you won't and as one of the victims of your crimes I hope you are treated as well in prison as you have treated us."
She said she hoped to move on now from this ordeal and live for herself and for the victims who are no longer here.
Edwards' Huntingdale victim is about to read her victim impact statement.
She has taken the stand and Justice Hall has let her know to take her time and if she cannot complete her statement, Ms Barbagallo will do so for her.
"I am OK when I am awake, it's when I'm asleep that I'm scared, I'm scared to let my legs or feet hang out the bed cover even it it's a stinky hot night," she said.
"Every night of my life I fall asleep with the fear that someone might attack me and I've been that way for 28 years.
"Then there are the dreams, I am always breathless trying so hard, but I can never get away, I am trapped.
"When I wake I don't look at my husband, I check the doorway, just in case he is there.
"I couldn't bear the idea of being asleep in my home overnight on my own.
"I didn't know if he was coming back for me one day, there were no answers and no way of finding out."
She said her dreams changed after Edwards was arrested.
"Bradley Edwards now features as the villian of my nightmares and I can't make it stop.
"Over the last 3 ½ years my mental health has suffered ... I have withdrawn from group gathering and I avoid people.
"I feel I have a label on my forehead with 'Huntingdale victim' tattooed there.
"I've suffered from anxiety and panic attacks since Bradley Edwards' arrest, I still do and I hate it."
She is becoming emotional recalling that she finds it hard to hug people, even her children.
She said the worst part of the trial was when Edwards' police interview showed him a photo of her room.
"At that moment I was screaming in my head, 'Stop Joe stop, don't let him in there'," she said.
"It was a horrific moment for me.
"I was crying and I was shaking and I wanted to scream, somehow I managed to keep that mostly internal as I sat in the courtroom.
"The trial has exposed one of the worst moments of my life to the whole world.
"At times it has made me feel guilty for being alive and guilty for not helping police stop Edwards."
She ended saying she was not a victim, but a survivor.
Following Edwards' arrest, he was interviewed by detectives and denied all the allegations put to him, including the rape and sex attack he would later confess to.
During the interview, he reluctantly admitted he had previously dressed in women's clothing.
Defence lawyer, Paul Yovich, has indicated the facts are agreed, except he denies he stole the kimono in 1988.
Prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo has moved on to how Edwards came to be charged with the Karrakatta abduction and rape and the Huntingdale sex attack.
She said on the evening the rape victim attended hospital, a rape kit was carried out which recovered the DNA of her attacker.
The DNA was entered into PathWest's fledgling DNA database as 'unknown male 4'.
In 2009, the same DNA profile was recovered from Ciara's fingernails, providing a link to the two cases.
In November 2016, the silk kimono left behind by Edwards at the Huntingdale attack in 1988 arrived in the PathWest lab to be re-examined as part of a cold case review.
The garment revealed a male DNA profile matching the profile retrieved from the Karrakatta rape and Ciara's murder.
"In December 2016, investigators conducted a full review of that offending, that is the Huntingdale offending," Ms Barbagallo said.
They found a palm print on file which was linked to a man prowling Huntingdale around the time Edwards attacked a teenager.
The prints were re-run through the fingerprints database and Edwards' name came up as a match, as his fingerprints had been entered in 1990 when he was convicted of common assault for attacking a female social worker at Hollywood Hospital.
Detectives began covertly following Edwards and took a Sprite bottle he discarded at the movies to PathWest for DNA testing.
It was a match and he was arrested on December 22, 2016 – nearly four years ago to the day of his sentencing.
Drag marks of Bradley Edwards' rape victim into Karrakatta Cemetery.
Lead prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo has now moved onto reading the facts in relation to the 1995 Karrakatta abduction and rape of a 17-year-old girl from Claremont.
"In February 1995 the offender was 26 years of age and married to his first wife … he was residing in the marital home," she said.
On the night of the offence, the teenager was walking through Rowe Park alone after a night out with friends in Claremont.
Edwards, lying in wait in the darkness, attacked her from behind, pushing her to the ground and binding her hands with a cord.
He carried her to his Telstra van, put her in the back of the vehicle and placed a hood over her head.
He then drove her to Karrakatta cemetery where he brutally raped her twice, never saying a word.
The teenager, terrified, did not say a word and wept softly.
When he was finished, she pretended to be dead. He threw her, half-naked and bound, into a bush and drove away from the area.
The teen fled to the nearby Hollywood Hospital where she received assistance.
Justice Stephen Hall
Justice Stephen Hall has entered the courtroom, signalling the beginning of today's proceedings, which are anticipated to take up much of the day.
Edwards has entered the dock, flanked by two security guards.
The first part of the hearing will involve the reading of the statement of material facts in relation to the counts which Edwards pleaded guilty to, being the Huntingdale sex attack and Karrakatta rape.
Lead prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo has begun reading the details of the Huntingdale offence which occurred on February 15, 1988 when Edwards was aged 19.
He broke into a house just a few streets from where he lived with his family and attacked an 18-year-old woman as she slept in her bed.
The kimono dropped by Edwards as he fled a Huntingdale sex attack.
"The offender entered a closed but unlocked door at the back of the house," Ms Barbagallo said.
"The offender closed the door to the bedroom of the parents and brothers and unplugged the landline telephone line."
He then entered the victim's room, climbed on top of her as she slept and shoved a gag into her mouth.
"The victim struggled against the offender and pinched or scratched his face, after she did this he stopped and fled the bedroom," Ms Barbagallo said.
He left behind a kimono and a pair of knotted stockings.
The victim's father rushed to help his daughter after hearing screams and banging on the wall coming from his daughter's room.
Edwards was not seen and police called to the scene conducting patrols did not spot him.
The prosecution team, led by Carmel Barbagallo, along with the defence team, led by Paul Yovich, have arrived in court.
Edwards' parents have also arrived and taken their seats.
The courtroom is packed. We should be getting underway soon at 9.30am.
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