CLAREMONT: Ten Seconds of Terror
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What happened in the courtroom on day seven of the Claremont trial?
certainly have fears that there is a serial killer at Lucerne Firth. Sarah Spears, Jane Rimmer, Keira Glennon.
And every time you saw a young girl walking by, you think, oh God, is she going to be the next victim?
Now, one man stands accused. If police are right and Edwards is the Claremont serial killer, he's been hiding in plain sight for 20 years.
In 1990, a young social worker was attacked by Bradley Edwards, the man now standing trial for the Claremont serial killings. She took the stand today and told her terrifying story for the first time. I'm Natalie Bongiolo. Welcome to Claremont in Conversation. I'm joined as always by Tim Clark from District Court. And hi, Tim. And Ali Phan.
Hi. Hi, guys.
Listen, I actually don't know about you two, but my head is spinning today. I mean, last night we heard from this man who was part of this bizarre love triangle. Then today, eight witnesses, including this woman who, by all accounts, thought she was fighting for her life.
Yes, this is the first time we've heard from her. And a terrifying account. Here she is sort of working in Hollywood Hospital and someone she doesn't know just drags her back, stuffs something in her mouth. She said she thought she was going to die. She couldn't breathe. She was worrying about something maybe being laced or contaminated in her mouth, so she stopped breathing. And then just as she was kicking back in this violent struggle, he stopped it, just suddenly stopped. And then he apologises.
Yeah, it was, given the attack happened nearly 30 years ago, it was like she was recounting it from yesterday. I mean, I'm watching her in the dock. I mean, she was physically reenacting it. At one point, she even put her hand over her own mouth to demonstrate, I mean, exactly the physicality and the violence, we've got to say, of the attack. And as Ali said, this is probably the first time she's ever told this story in public, even back in 1990, because Mr Edwards pleaded guilty.
How did the Hollywood Hospital victim describe her 1990 attack?
There wasn't a trial. There would have probably been a witness statement given to the magistrate at the time. But there she was, 30 years later, reliving it in Technicolor and just admitted on the stand, I'm still so distressed by this because I'm having to relive it now.
And Tim, why do you think she was brought on? I mean, this is a case that's passed. Is it to demonstrate violence or was it to do with a clinical psychologist that said that he thought that Edwards was struggling at the time with his wife's affair, where up until now we've heard it was a bit of ho-hum, yeah, I'm moving on, you're moving on, who cares sort of thing.
Yeah, six or one half a dozen of the other there are, I think. Firstly, obviously, it's propensity because right up front and right all the way through, the prosecutors are going to say, well, look, this is Mr. Edwards' modus operandi. He attacks lone women from behind with violence, using a cloth. He gags them, tries to subdue them and then drag them off, as he did in this case. as he did in 88 in Huntingdale, he's already admitted that, where he attacked the young girl from behind in her own bedroom, and then obviously Caracatta as well. So there's that propensity. They want to show him as an attacker of lone women, vulnerable women, whether it be day or night. And they also want to use the psychologist's report as basically their springboard for their emotional turmoil response.
motive theory because as we hear from both doctors who then interviewed Mr Edwards after this attack today he told them both I was upset because of the argument with my girlfriend who became his first wife I was emotionally all over the place and that's why I did it so there's two strands to that plus I would suggest that they probably want to give this woman a voice as well and give her a chance to actually tell her story and She was sat in the same court today as the man who did that to her all those years ago. And as we know from sort of, you know, victim empathy in these days, that that's part of the court's role is to let victims tell their own story and reclaim their voice.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What happened in the courtroom on day seven of the Claremont trial?
0:02–2:08
2
How did the Hollywood Hospital victim describe her 1990 attack?
2:08–6:06
3
Why was the victim’s testimony brought forward after 30 years?
6:06–9:25
4
What did the prosecution reveal about Bradley Edwards’ modus operandi?
9:25–12:39
5
How did police investigations into Telstra vehicles begin in 1996?
12:39–16:19
6
Who were the ‘Telstra Living Witnesses’ and what did they report?
16:19–20:06
7
What did Edwards say when he apologized during the victim’s testimony?
20:06–23:17
8
How did the love‑triangle revelations affect the courtroom dynamics?
23:17–24:38