Ex-drug squad head linked to speed sales

https://www.theage.com.au/national/ex-drug-squad-head-linked-to-speed-sales-20050301-gdzozb.html 

The Melbourne Age -  March 1, 2005

The deputy head of the former Victoria Police drug squad sold drugs to criminal gangs, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

Chief Crown prosecutor Jeremy Rapke, QC, said Wayne Geoffrey Strawhorn, 49, made money from trafficking drugs, obtained through unauthorised police purchases, to the Bandidos motorcycle club and the group then headed by the late Lewis Moran.

He said Strawhorn, a police detective sergeant, was intimately involved in operations that targeted the two groups using a "controversial" policy of making controlled drug deliveries to criminals.

The policy involved the simple, but dangerous, practice of infiltrating criminal gangs with police informers or undercover operatives, Mr Rapke said.

He said police could make a 6000 per cent profit on the black market through sales of pseudoephedrine, used in the manufacture of amphetamines.

Normally, the drug was sold to criminals in the form of thousands of cold and influenza tablets.

Mr Rapke said police could buy pseudoephedrine for $170 a kilogram, and sell it on the black market for $10,000.

But Mr Rapke said a pure form of pseudoephedrine was sold to the Bandidos and Morans in unauthorised transactions under Strawhorn's direction.

He said police had recognised that pure pseudoephedrine was an inherently dangerous chemical.

He said it was thought to be totally inappropriate to have a controlled delivery of the drug except in the most controlled circumstances. Mr Rapke said the aim of authorised deliveries was to uncover secret laboratories used to make amphetamines, and locate those involved in the illicit drug trade.

"Selling at black market prices guaranteed enormous profits for the police involved and (provided) potential for corruption," he said.

Strawhorn has pleaded not guilty to five counts of trafficking pseudoephedrine, one alleged to be in a commercial quantity, between October 28, 1999, and May 19, 2000. He has also pleaded not guilty to making a threat to kill a police officer who was investigating police corruption.

Mr Rapke said the five transactions at the centre of the trial before Justice John Coldrey were unauthorised and illegal.

He said it was alleged a police colleague, at Strawhorn's direction, obtained 5.5 kilograms of pure pseudoephedrine in five transactions with the drug company. One police informer sold 3.5 kilograms of pseudoephedrine to the Bandidos, while two other informers sold 2 kilograms to Lewis Moran's son, Mark, who was later murdered.

Mr Rapke said evidence would be called that Strawhorn had made money out of the drug trafficking, but it was difficult to ascertain the full extent of his earnings.

"The accused's expenditure exceeds by a sizeable amount his known and identifiable source of income," Mr Rapke said.

He said Strawhorn, when under suspicion, spoke with one informer involved in the Moran transaction. Strawhorn told the informer to tell his colleague that if he was interviewed, the Moran transaction "didn't happen".

Strawhorn allegedly wore a concealed recording device when he asked another informer "Dorothy Dix" questions to have him deny that he (Strawhorn) was involved in corrupt activity.

Mr Rapke said Strawhorn, in March 2003, made comments that his police career was over, and he would have to kill an anti-corruption investigator because it was the only way he would get satisfaction.

The trial continues.

Good cop, bad cop: how corrupt police work with drug dealers

The Converstion April 4, 2012 

http://theconversation.com/good-cop-bad-cop-how-corrupt-police-work-with-drug-dealers-6271

Richard Roxburgh played corrupt NSW Police detective Roger Rogerson in the ABC miniseries Blue Murder. 

Shamed senior police officer Mark Standen is lead away from King St Supreme Court

after being found guilty of attempting to import a massive haul of pseudoephedrine.

Australia 21 Report

http://www.australia21.org.au//publications/press_releases/Australia21_Illicit_Drug_Policy_Report.pdf

The Australia 21 report on illicit drugs draws much-needed attention to many serious issues, including the major role played by corrupt police in drug distribution networks.

The role played by drugs in police corruption is complex, and bears consideration when evaluating the report and arguments for a change in policy.

The connection between the illegal drugs markets and police corruption is well known. Booms in illegal drug markets in the US in the 1990s, for example, corresponded with a rise in police corruption and violent misconduct.

Similar connections between drugs and police corruption are found in many countries, and Australia is no exception, as demonstrated by the recent conviction of Mark Standen.

Illegal regulation

There are two common situations in which officers abuse (or choose not to use) their power in such a way as to benefit from the drug trade, each of which is often rationalised as an attempt to at least do something about the problem of illicit drugs - a form of “illegal regulation”.

The first of these is the theft of drugs or money from drug dealers.

When police officers are tasked with policing the prohibition of illicit drugs, first-hand experience leads many to believe they are unable to eliminate the industry, or that the people they steal from are unlikely to be arrested or convicted.

In this context, police officers in the UK, the US and Australia have justified stealing from drug dealers as a kind of tax or charge - an attempt to try and make it harder for dealers to do business.

The second common kind of police corruption is “green-lighting”, whereby police agree to turn a blind eye to dealers or groups that adhere to certain rules (e.g. no violence, no selling drugs to children).

his often used with the professed intention of creating a level of control over the drugs trade. Anyone who has seen the ABC TV series Blue Murder will be familiar with the events uncovered by the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption’s Milloo Inquiry, which alleged that criminal Arthur “Neddy” Smith’s activities had been green-lit by officers including the former detective Roger Rogerson, and that police officers sometimes even assisted Smith in the commission of crimes.

Fans of US TV show The Wire will recall “Hamsterdam”, the free zone where drug dealing was allowed on the condition that the drugs or violence did not spill onto other streets.

The reality is less noble-minded or contained; in New South Wales, for example, green-lighting of different groups by different officers created increasingly organised territorially defined cartels, and did nothing to stop the growth of the drugs trade.

It’s all in the game

Apart from any rationalisation for their behaviour as having some kind of noble cause, officers in these situations also face substantial material incentives.

In the market for drugs the high levels of inelastic demand (particularly in the case of highly addictive substances) and high prices create an very lucrative industry, and officers involved in extorting or protecting dealers can make substantial sums doing so.

One New York police officer made ten times his annual salary in protection money from drug dealers - so much that he often forgot to collect his legitimate pay.

Tackling these problems requires considering the incentives that officers face to engage in corruption, not just weeding out the odd bad cop. Despite the persistence of “bad apple” explanations of police corruption, many officers who are found to be corrupt often began as officers with a good, clean record of successful work.

Draining the swamp

While there may, of course, be bad individuals, of greater concern is that all officers are working in a “bad barrel” or “bad orchard” which is itself a corrupting influence.

The fact, then, that more officers do not become entangled in such activity is a credit to their integrity.

Any policy response to the issues raised in the Australia 21 report should take care to ensure it has a real effect on the market for drugs and that it makes it easier for such officers to maintain that integrity by considering the ramifications for police corruption.

Mark Standen found guilty at drugs trial

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/mark-standen-found-guilty-at-drugs-trial-20110811-1inr7.html 

Mark Standen found guilty at drugs trial
August 11, 2011

Former NSW crime fighter Mark Standen has been found guilty of plotting to import 300 kilograms of pseudoephedrine into Australia.

Standen, 54, was also found guilty of taking part in the supply of 300 kilograms of the substance, which is used in the manufacture of illegal amphetamine drugs, and guilty of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

After a trial that began in March, the NSW Supreme Court jury retired on Monday afternoon and delivered its verdicts today.

Standen, a former assistant director of investigations for the NSW Crime Commission had denied conspiring with drug trafficker turned informant James Kinch and food wholesaler Bakhos "Bill" Jalalaty, between early 2006 and June 2008, to import pseudoephedrine, used to make speed and ice.

He also denied the charges of supplying pseudoephedrine and perverting the course of justice.

The Crown alleged Standen's desperate financial plight led to his involvement in the crimes.

Standen, who appeared ashen when he was led into the dock, did not show any emotion when the guilty verdicts were handed down.

Before being led away, Standen exchanged a few words with his two brothers who had regularly attended his trial.

Justice Bruce James commended the 11-member jury, saying he knew they had all experienced hardship during the trial.

He said they had been told that the trial was expected to last for 14 weeks but it had run for almost five months.

"I know that at least one time during the trial you thought the trial might last indefinitely," he said.

He would recommend that all the jurors be permanently exempted from future jury service, he said.

Standen's sentencing hearing will be mentioned before the judge on September 1.

AAP and Geesche Jacobsen

Mark Standen is led away from the NSW Supreme Court after being found guilty of involvement in a drug importation   

Victorian police sold illegal drugs, corruption report finds

Commission finds police used ice, cocaine and ecstasy, met with traffickers and joked about their own drug use

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/13/victorian-police-sold-illegal-drugs-corruption-report-finds 

 The Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission says there are systemic deficiencies in Victoria police’s illicit drug prevention and detection 

Victorian police sent each other joking texts about their drug use, while one was building a “sophisticated drug syndicate”, the state’s anti-corruption investigation has found.

Police partying on ice, cocaine and ecstasy would meet up with known traffickers, peddle drugs themselves and return positive tests, the report by the Independent Broad-Based Anti-Corruption Commission said.

The report takes in three investigations into claims of drug possession, trafficking and use by police since 2014 and says allegations against eight officers have been substantiated.

Operation Apsley revealed a group of police were using drugs regularly in their social lives, including one who used cocaine “most days” for four months last year.

The officer, known as Senior Constable A, and a friend, Senior Constable B, used and trafficked drugs and were “cavalier about the safety risks”, the report says. Both told Ibac they would not work if affected by drugs but messages between them refuted these claims, including the following exchange after a night out using cocaine.

Senior Constable A: “Feeling slightly average but okay. Gonna be a long shift. Rad night.”

Senior Constable B: “Kill me, I wanna lay down.”

Another senior constable messaged a civilian associate about putting MDMA powder into capsules and got the reply: “Now that you run a sophisticated drug syndicate you will be ... essstremely bizzy.”

Two other Ibac operations also exposed regular drug use. One that focused on a constable led to that officer’s brother being arrested by federal and interstate police on alleged drug offences.

Ibac said the substantiated allegations against eight officers were likely to be just “snapshots of a more widespread and serious problem for Victoriapolice”.

Of those eight officers, two were charged with giving false evidence, misleading or attempting to mislead Ibac and inciting a witness to mislead Ibac, and one was charged with criminal drug offences. One has been dismissed, three have resigned, three are suspended and one returned to work after an admonishment notice.

Ibac concluded there were systemic deficiencies in Victoria police’s illicit drug prevention and detection.

“Police officers cannot be selective in choosing which criminal laws they will obey,” Ibac commissioner Stephen O’Bryan QC said. “While most of the police officers investigated were aware they were engaging in illegal conduct, they rationalised their off-duty criminality as being separate to their obligations as police officers.”

Victoria police’s alcohol and drugs policy says illicit drug use is not tolerated but there was ambiguity about the consequences, Ibac said.

The Police Association secretary, Ron Iddles, denied there was a systemic drug problem within Victoria police but conceded the eight instances didn’t come as a “total shock”.

“Our members are susceptible to more pressure and stress than the average member of society,” Iddles said.

He said the report showed health and wellbeing services available to Victoria police’s 15,000 members needed to be improved.

Police accepted the recommendations and were reviewing their practices and policies, a Victoria police spokesman said.

A progress report is due on 30 June and Victoria police must provide Ibac with a final report by 30 June 2018.

The police minister, Lisa Neville, said drug use had “no place” within the force.

“This investigation related to a small group of police officers and Victoria police has since taken appropriate action through criminal, disciplinary and management interventions,” she said..

Brother of accused Claremont serial killer

Bradley Robert Edwards 

breaks his silence about

the horrific abductions and murders

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/brother-of-accused-claremont-serial-killer-bradley-robert-edwards-breaks-his-silence-about-the-horrific-abductions-and-murders/ar-BBUh3tE

Aidan Wondracz- 2/03/2019

The brother of accused serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards insists his sibling is innocent. 

Mr Edwards - a 50-year-old suspected of being the Claremont serial killer - is preparing to fight a string of murder and rape charges dating back to the late 1980s to the mid 90s.

His younger brother in the meantime penned an email to The Weekend West to say the family of the accused was behind him every step of the way.

'My brother is innocent and ... this will be made evident as the case unfolds,' the email read.

The brother of accused serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards (pictured) has broken his silence to defend his sibling's innocence

The immediate family has visited Mr Edwards in prison and spoken to him at every opportunity.

Though, they have been given legal advice to stay away from his court appearances. 

Mr Edwards is accused of attacking an 18-year-old girl in her Huntingdale home in Perth in 1988 and allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl in Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995.

Police also allege he is responsible for the abduction and murder of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon from the upmarket Claremont suburb between January 1996 and March 1997. 

Mr Edwards was arrested in December 2016 after forensic evidence allegedly linked him to the attacks.

The Supreme Court heard while Mr Edwards denied all the allegations brought against him in a six-hour interview with police, he failed to explain certain facts (pictured, Sarah Spiers)

At a pre-trial directions hearing last week, it emerged the prosecution wanted to use the DNA or fingerprint traces to connect Mr Edwards with the series of crimes.

The Supreme Court heard while Mr Edwards denied all the allegations brought against him in a six-hour interview with police, he failed to explain certain facts.

That is, he was unable to explain why traces of his DNA was found on a Kimono linked to the Huntingdale attack and also on two of his alleged victims.

He also couldn't explain why his fingerprints were found on a door of another Huntingdale home following an attempted break-in, the court heard.

Added to the list of the allegations is the abduction and murder of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer (pictured)

and

Ciara Glennon from the upmarket Claremont suburb between January 1996 and March 1997

At a pre-trial directions hearing last week, it emerged the prosecution wanted to use the DNA or fingerprint traces to connect Mr Edwards with the series of crimes (pictured, Ciara Glennon)

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Hall noted the details brought to light during the pre-trial hearings were allegations - no evidence had been presented as of yet. 

Barrister Paul Yovich said important questions had to be answered in relation to the forensic evidence.

'The question ... is, in each case, is it the accused’s DNA ... and if so, how did it get there?' he told the court. 

'With count eight (Ms Glennon’s murder), are there other possibilities ... innocent contact, adventitious match or contamination in the collection or testing process?'

Mr Edwards is due back in court on March 20.

 The Supreme Court heard while Mr Edwards denied all the allegations brought against him in a six-hour interview with police, he failed to explain certain facts (pictured, Sarah Spiers)

"Devils Garden ....The Darkest Side of Perth"



A new film is being produced called "Devils Garden... The Darkest Side of Perth", which will publicly expose that Police Corruption in Western Australia ran rife from  the 1950's to 2016 and continuing, with a corrupt section of police being involved in committing crimes, in condoning criminal activity and protecting certain people from being investigated and prosecuted for crimes that they committed... there were people like the late billionaire building magnate, Len Buckeridge who were given the green light to commit what ever crimes they wanted, including murder, assault, rape fraud, robbery etc.. these people were given what they called 
"the Green Light" by Police to commit whatever crimes they wanted without fear of investigation or prosecution ...

There is also a new books coming out this year  "Living Next Door To A Psychopath" and "The Darkest Side of Perth" and a previous book called "Devil's Garden"ISBN: 978174664669 published by Random House in 2007 by  well known Queensland Crime writer Debi Marshall with an in depth investigation into the Claremont Serial Killings and various miscarriages of justice in Western Australia policing and prosecution... and the controversial series of books  entitled "The Triumph of Truth ( Who Is Watching The Watchers?) written in the 1990's which were illegal and clandestinely removed from the Western Australia Alexander Resource Reference Library in about the year 2000, which the film "Devils Garden... The Darkest Side of Perth" takes material from .....
The 1960's American TV Police and Crime Series Called Dragnet used to say at the beginning of each episode ... " These are true stories from Police and FIB files, however the true names have been changed to protect the innocent..."
The film  being produced called "Devils Garden... The Darkest Side of Perth",  is a set of true stories about  police and prosecutors in Perth, Western Australia being involved in committing crimes and covering up for criminals who have committed serious crimes, and deliberately charging people who they know have not committed the crime they have been charged for ..... which  will leave all the true names  exposed and shame the guilty ....
One of the producers of the film "Devils Garden... The Darkest Side of Perth" stated .....

 "... there seems no doubt that the Western Australian Police are not going to properly investigate and charge the real Claremont Serial Killers and those that helped carry out these most serious  crimes and covering up those responsible for such serious crimes .... so the film will in effect bring the truth to light so at least the parents, families and friends of the victims and the general public can get to know the truth.... the problem is that a proper police investigation and inquiry would lead investigators too close to their own ranks and powerful business people and politicians who were either involved or know who are involved and are prepared to help cover the truth up..."

One of the producers of the film "Devils Garden... The Darkest Side of Perth" further stated .....

".... the NYT.bz investigation report into the Claremont Serial Abductions and Killings which we are using as part of the information supporting the story presented in the our film shows clearly that the arrest and the $200 million plus cost of the prosecution of Bradley Robert Edwards as the alleged sole Claremont Serial Abductor and Killer, who, without any help or protection from others ....  is to satisfy the general public that the Claremont Serial Killer has been caught, and that there is no need to look any further for anyone involved in the Claremont Serial Abductions and Killings ..... regardless of any possible alleged involvement of Bradley Robert Edwards  in the Claremont Serial Abductions and Killings ....... which is extremely doubtful from the information we have seen so far..... they is no doubt that other more powerful  and well connected people in Perth, Western Australia .,. including Western Australian Police have been involved in  the Claremont Serial Abductions and Killings and also the covering up of the the real truth behind  the Claremont Serial Abductions and Killings ...... our film will attempt to set the public record straight ..... we are expecting threats on our lived#s for producing this provocative film .... and or legal action to try and stop it been shown to the public ... however ... regardless of these expected reactions the film has to be made and the truth has to be told to the public ..... it seems that not even the solicitors and barristers representing Bradley Robert Edwards are interested in knowing the truth that will help in defending their client Bradley Robert Edwards who has been charged and accused of the Claremont Serial Abductions and Murders  "

Waiting list for copies of the Collectors Edition of new book titled
"The Darkest Side of Perth, Western Australia"  is  currently in the process of being published:

Anyone interested in obtaining a copy of the Collectors Edition of the book..
"The Darkest Side of Perth, Western Australia" 
please email:
The AWN Publishing Manager
AWN News Group
Email: admin@awn.bz

Pornography evidence not allowed at trial of alleged Claremont serial killer Bradley Edwards

By Joanna Menagh

Updated 20 Mar 2019, 

The Claremont serial killings

Three young Perth women disappeared in the mid-1990s. Two decades later, a man faces court.  

RELATED STORY: How prosecutors will argue an awkward teen became the Claremont serial killer

RELATED STORY: Explicit story about 'blitz attack' on girl found on alleged serial killer's computer

RELATED STORY: Accused serial killer's prior conviction for attack on woman revealed in court

RELATED STORY: 'Extreme' porn raised in dramatic start to Claremont serial killer hearing

Evidence of "graphic and ext

Key points:

• Justice Stephen Hall says the pornography evidence is not relevant to the trial
• Evidence about a prior conviction and the "Telstra living witness project" will be allowed
• About 580 witnesses are set to be called in the nine-month trial

Evidence of "graphic and extreme" pornography found on a computer seized from the home of

 alleged Claremont serial killer Bradley Edwards is not admissible at his trial, a judge has ruled.

Prosecutors had argued last month that the evidence, which included a pornographic movie and explicit stories about the rape and abduction of women, should be allowed at the trial, to show Mr Edwards had an interest in sexually attacking women.

However, in a complex judgement, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Hall has ruled the evidence — discovered on a computer at Mr Edwards's home almost 20 years after his alleged crimes — was not relevant.

He said there were several flaws in the state's argument that the pornography was relevant to the offences Mr Edwards was accused of committing.

"I do not accept that it can be assumed that the perpetrator of any of the offences was necessarily likely to have an interest in violent pornography," Justice Hall said.

 "Nor [do I accept] that a person who had such an interest is more likely to have committed these offences."

The judge said it could not be firmly established when the pornography was possessed and created, other than between December 2015 and December 2016.

"Whilst it may be supposed that the activity of collecting and creating occurred over a period of years, it cannot be shown that any of that activity coincided with the commission of the offences, or was even close in time to those events," he said.

Mr Edwards has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including the murders of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon, the three women who disappeared from the streets of Claremont between 1996 and 1997.

He is also accused of sexually motivated attacks on two other women, one inside a Huntingdale home in 1988 and another at a cemetery in Karrakatta in 1995.

'Common features' of attacks on women: judge

Justice Hall has allowed prosecutors to lead evidence about Mr Edwards's 1990 conviction for attacking a senior social worker at Hollywood Hospital, where he was working as a Telecom technician.

"It is true that there are a number of features of the Hollywood Hospital incident that are different to both the Huntingdale and the Karrakatta incidents," he told the court.

"Those differences are relevant but, in my view, they do not detract from the underlying common features.

"Attacking an unknown woman from behind and using a piece of material or cloth in an attempt to prevent resistance are sufficiently similar to give this evidence significant probative value."

Evidence called the "Telstra living witness project" will also be allowed at the July trial.

This evidence details about five instances between 1995 and 1997 when a man, who was either driving a Telecom car or said he worked for Telecom, stopped and stared at young women or offered them lifts in the Claremont and Cottesloe areas.

Defence bid for separate Huntingdale trial rejected

Ruled out of the murder case against Mr Edwards was what prosecutors called the "Huntingdale prowler series".

The evidence relates to allegations he stole items of women's underwear off clotheslines and broke into or attempted to break into houses to commit sexually motivated crimes.

But Justice Hall ruled that evidence could only be used by the prosecution as part of the case against Mr Edwards for the alleged Huntingdale attack. 

He also rejected an application by the defence for the charges relating to that alleged attack to be the subject of a separate trial, unrelated to the three murder charges Mr Edwards is facing.

During Wednesday's hearing, it was also revealed about 580 witnesses are set to be called in the nine-month trial, although both the prosecution and defence lawyers said they would work to try to reduce that number.

Prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo said the trial would start with what she termed "the Edwards brief", dealing with his background, before proceeding chronologically.

Mr Edwards, who appeared via video link from Casuarina prison, was remanded in custody after the hearing until his next scheduled pre-trial hearing on April 24.

WA Justice department fined $100,000 over Hakea prisoner crushed to death

AAPThursday, 25 October 2018

https://thewest.com.au/news/perth/wa-justice-department-fined-100000-over-hakea-prisoner-crushed-to-death-ng-b881002271z

Hakea Prison.

THE Department of Justice has been fined $100,000 for its role in the death of a prisoner who was crushed between a truck and a wall at Hakea Prison.

The remand prisoner was cleaning residential units at Hakea prison in 2015 prior to a redevelopment when the truck's right rear swung out and pinned him against side wall of the dock.

The department pleaded guilty in Armadale Magistrates Court to failing to take reasonable care to ensure the safety and health of a person who was not an employee.

WorkSafe WA Commissioner Ian Munns said the agency had a poor workplace safety record over many years.

"Prior to this incident, the department did not carry out a risk assessment to identify the risks created by the tasks, and the briefing given to the working party did not include vehicle movements," he said on Thursday.

"A risk register that identified pedestrian/vehicle interaction as a hazard was in place, but many staff were unaware of the existence of the register."

Mr Munns said between January 2010 and August 2015, WorkSafe inspectors issued 222 improvement notices and six prohibition notices to the department, with 67 relating to Hakea prison.

After the death, the department was issued with an additional 17 improvement notices between August 2015 and August 2017.

It also implemented procedures to reduce the risks of moving vehicles near pedestrians.

Accused serial killer under constant watch

https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5915116/accused-serial-killer-under-constant-watch/

Accused Claremont serial killer Bradley Edwards is under constant watch after being injured.

The accused Claremont serial killer is being supervised around the clock, including being watched via CCTV while he sleeps, amid suggestions he harmed his ear using a pencil before a court hearing.

Corrective Services Minister Fran Logan initially said Bradley Robert Edwards, 50, was attacked by another inmate in a Hakea Prison shower block on Monday morning, but later backtracked.

Premier Mark McGowan said on Tuesday there was a miscommunication and Mr Logan provided "what he thought was accurate information" after being in cabinet for about three hours.

Corrective Services Commissioner Tony Hassall said on Wednesday it was not yet clear what happened as a police investigation was ongoing.

Mr Hassall told ABC radio that Edwards, who has refused to say what transpired, was alone at the time and "staff didn't hear anything".

He later confirmed in a statement Edwards had been moved to Casuarina prison and was in a single cell with his own toilet in the crisis care unit, which is monitored 24/7 by CCTV cameras.

"In addition, and for the time being, Mr Edwards will remain under constant supervision by a dedicated officer," Mr Hassall said.

Edwards was taken to hospital after he was found by a prison guard with what authorities described as relatively minor injuries, causing a pre-trial hearing to be adjourned.

The hearing resumed on Tuesday and there were plenty of explosive revelations as prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo outlined propensity evidence that she seeks to be deemed admissible for the judge-alone trial, which is scheduled to start on July 22.

It emerged Edwards could not explain his DNA on the fingernails of one of three murder victims, Ciara Glennon, 27.

Australian Associated Press 

Man to go on trial in July charged with murder of daughter of Westport man in Australia 20 years ago

 Published: Wednesday, 20 February 2019

Claremont serial killer accused Bradley Edwards had previous conviction for attacking woman

By Joanna Menagh

Updated 20 Feb 2019,

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-19/claremont-serial-killer-accused-bradley-edwards-faces-hearing/10823398 

PHOTO: Bradley Edwards is accused of killing (from top) Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon. (ABC News)

The Claremont serial killings

Three young Perth women disappeared in the mid-1990s. Two decades later, a man faces court.  

RELATED STORY: Accused Claremont serial killer Bradley Edwards hospitalised after prison shower block injury

RELATED STORY: 'Extreme' porn raised in dramatic start to Claremont serial killer hearing

RELATED STORY: Prosecutors to reveal key parts of case against accused Claremont serial killer

Key points:

• Bradley Edwards denies murdering three women in Claremont in the 1990s
• Prosecutors allege they took his DNA from the body of the third victim, Ciara Glennon
• Ms Glennon's cause of death was consistent with her neck being cut

Prosecutors have outlined allegations of a "fetish" for collecting and wearing women's underwear, a conviction for attacking a woman in 1990 and a claim of an "obsessive sexual interest in the abduction and rape of women" at a pre-trial hearing for the alleged Claremont serial killer. 

The allegations were detailed in an opening address at a hearing to decide what evidence will be allowed to be presented at the July trial of Bradley Robert Edwards.

Mr Edwards, 50, is accused of murdering Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon, who all vanished from the Claremont night precinct in the mid-1990s.

He is also accused of sexually motivated attacks on two other women, one in 1988 and another in 1995.

He denies all the allegations against him.

The 'Huntingdale prowler'

Prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo today outlined areas of evidence the state wished to present against Mr Edwards.

The first category was called "the Huntingdale prowler", which she said included evidence that in 1988, articles of clothing and women's underwear were stolen from clotheslines in the Huntingdale area.

Ms Barbagallo said the state planned to allege Mr Edwards, who was then aged 19, had broken into or attempted to break into houses within a 1-kilometre radius of his family's home, and was seen wearing what were described as silky gowns.

She said those alleged events happened around the same time as an attack of which Mr Edwards is accused, where he allegedly broke into the family home of an 18-year-old woman, unplugged the telephone and tried to attack her.

Ms Barbagallo said it was alleged that at the time of the Huntingdale incidents, Mr Edwards was "an introverted, socially awkward man … who had a longstanding tendency for the collection and wearing of women's underwear".

"It's the state's case he had a fetish for women's underwear and garments," she said.

Ms Barbagallo said the state wanted to use the "Huntingdale prowler evidence" to show that Mr Edwards had a "propensity or tendency to prowl an area" in order to "seize the opportunity to commit offences with a sexual motive".

She said in Huntingdale he prowled on foot, while in Claremont he prowled in a vehicle.

"We say this is the manner in which he does what he does," she said.

"We say this is the manner in which he goes about identifying his victims in Claremont … he prowls in Huntingdale and he prowls in Claremont."

Mr Edwards's barrister, Paul Yovich SC, argued against the admissibility as evidence of particular details of his client's conduct in the "Huntingdale Prowler" allegations.

"Stealing women's underwear in 1988 does not have any relevance to murdering women," he said.

He argued the allegation of Mr Edwards's so-called "prowling tendency" was not established and said while the motivation for the alleged murders "might have been sexual", this was not known.

Prior attack on woman at hospital revealed

Another category of evidence was called the "Telstra living witness project", which centres on allegations Mr Edwards drove around the Claremont and Cottesloe areas in 1995 and 1996 in his Telstra work-issued car and stopped to look at women and offer them a lift.

The court heard he allegedly told one woman "he was looking for damsels in distress like her", before grabbing her and trying to kiss her, but she managed to push him away.

In another alleged incident, a sole male in a white car with a Telstra logo stopped and stared at two women waiting for a taxi, before driving away.

It was also revealed Mr Edwards had a conviction for attacking a woman in 1990, in what was labelled "the Hollywood hospital" evidence.

The court heard he was working at the hospital as a Telstra technician and attacked a social worker, described as being a woman in "mature years", as she sat in a chair.

He tried to put a piece of material in her mouth but she kicked him and managed to break free, before cable ties were later found in his pocket.

Ms Barbagallo said Mr Edwards was convicted of common assault and sentenced to two years' probation.

Accused's DNA linked to victims

The next category was called "the Karrakatta" evidence, which related to charges Mr Edwards was facing of abducting a 17-year-old girl in 1995, taking her to Karrakatta Cemetery and sexually assaulting her.

It is alleged Mr Edwards grabbed the teenager from behind, pushed her to the ground and used a cord with a "pre-prepared, improvised handcuff knot" to bind her hands.

It is also alleged he placed a hood over her head and bound her feet together, before carrying her to his car and driving to Karrakatta Cemetery.

Ms Barbagallo said swabs taken from the victim matched the accused's DNA, which was taken after his arrest in December 2016.

The final category of evidence, called the "Claremont series", was the proposed evidence relating to the alleged murders of Ms Spiers, Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon, who disappeared from Claremont in 1996 and 1997.

Neck injuries and 'blood-curdling' screams

The court was told Ms Spiers was last seen alive, in January 1996, leaning up against a Telstra bollard after calling a taxi.

Not long after this Ms Barbagallo said "a series of blood-curdling screams" were heard by a resident in Mosman Park.

A witness also claimed to have seen a white or cream car parked on the wrong side of the road, with Ms Barbagallo saying the description of the vehicle was similar to one of the two cars to which Mr Edwards was given access by his employer, Telstra.

The court heard that Ms Rimmer's body was found 55 days after she disappeared at Wellard, south of Perth, where on the same day a witness found a knife with a Telstra logo.

Ms Barbagallo said the knife was a "standard issue" Telstra or Telecom knife that had been issued to employees, including Mr Edwards.

She said two similar knives were found in a toolbox in his car after his arrest in 2016.

The court heard that because of the decomposition of Ms Rimmer's body, the cause of death could not be determined, however she had "defects" to her neck.

It was also revealed DNA taken from Ms Glennon's body, including from under her fingernails, was consistent with Mr Edwards's DNA, and fibres located in her hair corresponded to fibres from the interior of the work car Mr Edwards was allocated at the time.

The car was seized by police in 2017.

Ms Glennon's body was found 18 days after she vanished, and Ms Barbagallo said her cause of death was consistent with her neck being cut.

The court heard that on the night of Ms Glennon's disappearance in March 1997, Mr Edwards had been due to spend the night with friends, but he turned up the next morning and told them he had not turned up because he was trying to reconcile with his then partner

Ms Barbagallo said all the allegations against Mr Edwards, as well as pornography and "violent and erotic stories" seized after his arrest, showed he had an "obsessive sexual interest in the abduction, imprisonment and forcible rape of women in degrading and violent circumstances and/or the performance of sexual acts on them whilst they are incapable of resisting, from which he derives sexual gratification".

She claimed it showed this has "sexual interests were extreme, abnormal and depraved".

She also said boxes had been found at his home after his arrest, which contained women's underwear with holes cut out.

Computer stories had 'striking similarity' to alleged attack

Details were also given of numerous "stories" allegedly accessed, downloaded or contributed to by Mr Edwards and found on a computer at his house. 

Ms Barbagallo said the stories, some of which were called "Chloe's story", "Nicola's story" and "Sophie's story", were about the abduction of women or about having non-consensual sex with women.

She said "Chloe's story" had a marked and striking similarity to what Mr Edwards was alleged to have done to the teenage girl at Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995.

Ms Barbagallo also suggested that the alleged offences were committed during periods of emotional turmoil in Mr Edwards's personal life, saying specific events seemed to have been an "emotional trigger" for him.

While the state also argued that the evidence it wanted to present against Mr Edwards represented "an escalation" from him being a night time prowler to a sex attacker and then a murderer, Mr Yovich submitted that there were distinguishing and significant differences in what was being alleged.

For example, he said the alleged incident in Huntingdale in 1988 against a 19-year-old woman involved an assailant wearing a woman's garment entering a house at night time, while "the Hollywood Hospital" attack, to which Mr Edwards pleaded guilty, was committed in broad day light with minimal evidence of any pre-meditation or any attempt by Mr Edwards to disguise his identity.

At one point, Justice Stephen Hall noted for the benefit of everyone in the court that what Ms Barbagallo was presenting were "allegations" and not evidence.

"This is yet to be proven," Justice Hall said.

PHOTO: Justice Stephen Hall said prosecutors were detailing "allegations" and not evidence at this stage.

 State prosecutor Carmel Barbagallo has begun outlining the case against Mr Edwards.

 Mr Edwards's trial is due to begin later this year. 

prison van transporting Bradley Edwards arrives at Perth's Supreme Court.

Mr Edwards denies all the allegations against him

PHOTO: Sarah Spiers, Ciara Glennon, and Jane Rimmer disappeared from Claremont in 1996 and 1997. (ABC News)

PHOTO: Mr Edwards returned to court this morning after being treated in hospital for an ear injury.

Claremont serial killings: Inside Hakea Prison — what life is like for Bradley Robert Edwards

David JohnsThe West Australian

Monday, 18 February 2019

https://thewest.com.au/news/claremont-serial-killings/inside-hakea-prison-what-life-is-like-for-men-who-are-remanded-in-custody-ng-b881109111z

Bradley Robert Edwards arrives at Fiona Stanley Hospital.Picture: 7NEWS Perth

Claremont serial killings accused Bradley Robert Edwards was rushed to hospital after being found injured in a prison shower block today — but just what is life like behind bars for the men who stay at Hakea Prison?

The facility was officially opened back in 1982 as the maximum-security Canning Vale Prison, with a capacity of 248 prisoners.

In 2000, the prison merged with the CW Campbell Remand Centre to become Hakea Prison, with a capacity today of 1217.

But the capacity only tells part of the story — the turnover gives a much better impression of the scale of the operation.

Throughout the course of the year, Hakea pushes through as many as 7000 prisoners as they work their way through the legal system.

As a remand facility, it caters for male prisoners who are in limbo, having been remanded in custody while awaiting court appearances or sentencing.

Newly-sentenced criminals are also assessed at Hakea while awaiting their fate with placement at other WA prisons.

The prison has had a history of violence, with the Prison Officers’ Union only last year raising concerns about overcrowding and resourcing.

In October 2018, the WA Department of Justice was fined $100,000 after a Hakea prisoner was crushed to death three years earlier by a truck.

Former footy stars Ben Cousins and Daniel Kerr also spent time behind the walls of Hakea.

The prison’s focus is on rehabilitation, with inmates given ‘jobs’ where they can learn and develop skills.

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Prisoners can earn additional privileges such as extra social visits, time on the phone and money to spend in the canteen.

The facility includes indoor and outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts, a ping pong table, a gymnasium and a library.

It was inside these walls where Claremont serial killings accused Bradley Robert Edwards was found injured in a shower block today.

The injury prompted a dramatic adjournment of today’s pre-trial hearing at the Supreme Court.

A St John Ambulance spokesman confirmed paramedics had transported a 50-year-old man from Hakea Prison this morning.

The spokesman said the man’s injuries were not life-threatening.

Claremont serial killing: Who’s who in the WA case of the century

Tim ClarkeThe West Australian

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

https://thewest.com.au/news/claremont-serial-killings/whos-who-in-the-wa-case-of-the-century-ng-b881104760z

THE VICTIMS


Sarah Spiers

Sarah Spiers, 18 - disappeared on on 26 January 1996, after she left a nightclub in the centre of Claremont. Ms Spiers had called a taxi from a phone booth but was not present when it arrived.

Jane Rimmer

Jane Rimmer, 23 - on June 9, 1996, like Ms Spiers, Ms Rimmer’s night out had begun with drinks at Cottesloe’s Ocean Beach Hotel, followed by drinks at the Continental.

After her friends left, Ms Rimmer started walking back to The Conti on her own. Her body was found in bushland near Woolcoot Road, Wellard, in August 1996.

JANE RIMMER

        The 23-year-old vanished from Claremont in the early hours of June 9, 1996.

        Her body was later found in bushland in Wellard.
  
  "... Please note the police and the media have all well known  from the statement by Uni students that they saw Jane Rimmer hitchking on Stirling Highway
    at 12.30 am near Lock Street .....  this was reported by the students (two couples in the car) to the police in June, 1996,  and thus the media and
     the Western  Australian Police  have been  misrepresentimg the truth for thwe last nearly 20 years about the last sighting og Jane Rimmer before
    Jame Rimmer disapeared..
   Evidence that the AWN.bz have explains why the police and the Western Australian media have bene misprepresentinh for nearly 20 years at to  when the
    last sighting on Jane Rimmer was and at what time tha\t sighting was".... ...Editor of AWN.bz

Title: We Saw Jane Rimmer Hitching - Uni Student says


Author: Andrew Clennell Date: 19th June, 1996

Publisher: Community Times, News Chronical, Nedlands Edition

University student Emma Clayton and her friends almost picked up a blonde girl she is sure was Jane Rimmer early on the Sunday Morning Jane Rimmer disapeared.
Miss Clayton (21 years old uni student) said she saw the girl staggering along Stirling Highway, thumb out, hitching a lift at 12.30 am. Emma Clayton told police about the incident and her description of the cloths Jane was wearing matched that of a police description which had not been released to the media. Mis Clayton said she and her friends had been in Stirling Highway after leaving a 21st birthday party at Claremont Yacht Club. "Down near Lock Street we saw a girl Hitchhiking," she said. The Girl had her thumb out and we just slowed down and thought maybe we should pick her up but didn't." The conversation between the two couples in the car had been that she was a silly girl for trying to hitch in the area and they discussed whether they should pick the girl up. The decided at the last minute to move on. "we said of all placed for a girl to be hitchhiking alone, this was probably the worst," Miss Clayton said. She said initially, after she had heard of Jane Rimmer's disappearance, she felt guilty that that hadn't picked her up. "If we had picked her up things would have been a lot different, " Miss Clayton said. When she and her friends saw the girl there were no other cars on the Stirling Highway ...
Title: We Saw Jane Rimmer Hitchhiking - Student
Author:Andrew Clennell
Date: 19 June 1996
Publisher: Community Times, News Chronical, Nedlands Edition.

Ciara Glennon who disappeared from Claremont.Picture: Supplied

Ciara Glennon, 27 - 14 March 1997, the 27-year-old lawyer, was at the Continental Hotel for only 20 minutes, not even long enough to have a drink. Her body was found on April 3, near a track in scrub off Pipidinny Road in Eglinton.

THE ACCUSED

Bradley Robert Edwards - A long-time Telstra worker, Mr Edwards has been described as quiet, friendly and private. A keen computer gamer, he was also heavily involved with Kewdale Little Athletics club. He and his wife were made life members of Belmont Little Athletics Centre in recognition of their volunteer work.


Serial Killer Suspect

 
Donald Morey, aka Matusevich


Sarah Ann McMahon
Sarah Ann McMahon went missing from Greenmount on November 8th, 2000, Was aged 20, Now would be age 36 in December, 2016
The in depth report done by the USA NYT.bz Investigation Team reveals that Sarah Ann McMahon was a serious threat to powerful people inside and outside the Western Australian Police Force, because Sarah Anne McMahon knew too much 

If Donald Morey, who was last seen with Sarah Anne McMahon) was in contact with Sarah all these years -- can't he provide proof she is alive? Like .. an address? Phone number? Something? And why would she speak him and him alone and not her family - for 12 years? How is this Donald Morey aka Matusevich

guy NOT charged with something in this case?

Further Background on Donald Morey Aka Matusevich 
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/australia-claremont-serial-killer-1996-1997-perth-western-australia-6.318778/page-18

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19750925&id=QuBUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=P5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3838,5604554&hl=en

The Age - Sep 25, 1975  

Two convicts found gulty of axe-killing

Two Pentridge prisoners were found guilty in the Criminal Court last night of having murdered another prisoner, found bashed to death with an axe.

Claude Joseph Thompson, 24, laborer, of Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, and Donald Victor Matusevich, 20, cook, of Beachgrove Street, Mornington, were sentenced to gaol for the term of their natural life.

Both pleaded not guilty to charges of having murdered Graeme John Whateley, 28, at Pentridge on November 12 last.

Whately was found guilty to charges of having murdered Graeme John Whateley, 28, at Pentridge on November 12 last.

Whateley was found lying on bed with severe head injuries. there also had been an attempt to strangle him.

The Crown alleged that Thompson and Matusevich bashed Whately to death with an axe

The court was told that the three were working as clerks in a hospital ward at Pentridge.

Whateley had been transferred to Pentridge from Ararat and was waiting to be taken to another gaol.

Evidence was given that a prisoner who escaped from Ararat gaol was recaptured soon after with the help of information provided by Whateley.

The Crown alleged that Thompson and Matusevich planned to try to escape and saw Whateley as an obstacle to their plan.

Prison officers told the court that on the night Whately was killed, attempts were made to escape from the hospital ward.

They said a TV set was removed from a wall, attempts were made to bach holes in the ceieling and the toilet wall, and a fireplace unit was removed, apparently to investigate the possibility of getting out via the chimney.

In alleged records on an interview with police given to the court, both accused admitted having killed Whately.

Matusevich gave sworn evidence at the trial that he took no part of the attack.

He (Matusevich) said Thompson went berserk with the axe.

He (Matusevich) said he had no recollection of making the record of the interview because he (Matusevich) took some tablets after the incident.

Counsel for Thompson called two psychiatrists and one psychologist, who gave evidence that Thompson had a history of psychiatric illness and admitted in the past to other crimes he did not commit.

The doctors said that if he had killed Whately. if was possible that he was insane at the time.

After a trial before Mr Justice Murray, the jury of seven women and five men took about eight and a half hours to reach a verdict.

Mr. Philip P.C. Martin prosecuted, Mr. K. H. Marks, QC, with Mr. Mr H. J. casey, appeared for Matusevich, Mr Philip Dunn, with Mr. P.J. Cahill, appeared for Thompson.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19770913&id=qncQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YJIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1893,3347410&hl=en

The Age - Sep 13, 1977 

 Convict cleared of 1974 axe murder

by David Withington

A man last night won his two-year fight and was cleared of the axe killing of a Pentridge prisoner.

"it's been just like a nightmare," Mr. Donald Victor Matusevich, 22 said outside the Criminal Court.

"It's something you can't express in words. I'm just so happy that it's over."

" the last few years have been very hard, knowing that I'm innocent," he (Donald Victor Matusevich) said.

Mr. Donald Victor Matusevich's fight to clear himself began in September 1975, when a Criminal Court jury found him guilty of murder.

He (Donald Victor Matusevich) lost his appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal but, in July this year (1977), the High Court granted a re-trial.

After deliberating for seven hours, the second jury acquitted him (Donald Victor Matusevich).

Mr. Justice Murphy ordered his (Donald Victor Matusevich) release from Custody as he has completed the sentence he was serving at the time of the killing.

Mr. Donald Victor Matusevich had pleaded not guilty to murdering Graeme John Whately, 28, who was based to death in the Pentridge hospital ward on November 13, 1974.

The Crown alleged he and another prisoner, Claude Joseph Thompson, repeatedly hit Whately over the head with an axe.

On September, 24, 11975, the two were found guilty of murder.

Mr. Donald Victor Matusevich won his High Court appeal on the grounds that he had been improperly cross-examined on his prior convictions and the jury had been misdirected on two points of law.

Thompson had his conviction quashed last year by the Court of Criminal Appeal on the ground that the trial judge, Mr Justice Murray, had misdirected the jury on the law relating to insanity.

He (Claude Joseph Thompson) was found not guilty on the ground of insanity and ordered to be held in strict Custody.

On April 6th, this year (1977) he (Claude Joseph Thompson) was found hanged.

Application for special leave to appeal granted. 
Appeal allowed. 
Order that verdict of guilty of and conviction for murder and sentence thereon by the Supreme Court of Victoria be quashed and in lieu thereof order that the matter be remitted to that Court for retrial. 

In Matusevich v The Queen,[16] Matusevich and his co-accused Thompson were prisoners

Pentridge Jail and were jointly charged with the murder of a third prisoner in their ward. The

deceased had been killed with an axe and Matusevich and his co-accused were the only people

present at the time of the killing. Matusevich was alleged to have admitted that he and his

co-accused killed the deceased but he gave evidence denying the truth of those statements and that

he had no recollection of what he said at the police interview. Matusevich claimed that his

co-accused was a madman who not only killed the deceased but threatened to kill him if he called

for assistance; he was only able to press the alarm button some time after the killing. He said he

had no convictions for offences of violence. Matusevich was wrongly cross-examined in his

murder trial as to his prior convictions for previously escaping from custody, house breaking and

stealing, which the prosecutor suggested were offences of a violent nature.[17] During

cross-examination Matusevich admitted that he wrecked and tried to set fire to premises he broke

into when he was drunk and that he now had no memory of his actions on those occasions. Aickin

J, with whom Gibbs, Stephen and Mason JJ agreed, rejected the Victorian Court of Criminal

Appeal's finding of no substantial miscarriage of justice because evidence of these prior

convictions was "just the kind of prejudicial material that might in this very unusual case have

tipped the balance against him.".[18]

R v Salmon

MATUSEVICH v. THE QUEEN HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA Gibbs, Stephen, Mason, Murphy and Aickin JJ.

MATUSEVICH v. THE QUEEN

(1977) 137 CLR 633

22 June 1977

Criminal Law (Vict.)

Criminal Law (Vict.)—Murder—Concert—Capacity to act in concert—Whether sane person can be guilty of acting in concert with insane person—Direction to jury—Evidence—Character and previous convictions of accused—Cross- examination—Accused establishing own good character—Permission of judge required for prosecutor to ask questions tending to show bad character or commission of previous offences—Evidence by one accused against another charged with same offence—Cross-examination by prosecutor—Permission not obtained—Whether Crown may cross-examine as to character or previous convictions where accused gives evidence against co-accused—Substantial miscarriage of justice—Crimes Act 1958 (Vict.), s. 399 proviso (e).

The former head of Western Australia's Prostitution Task Force Con Bayens 


hinted that it was Donald Morey that he stopped and searched his car in Northbridge, Perth, and found his boot lined with blue plastic and all the necessary equipment in his boot needed to carry out an adbuction, such masking tape, pliers, wire ties, rope etc.
The former head of Western Australia's Prostitution Task Force Con Bayens believes the Macro Task Force under the then head Assistant Commissioner David Caporn that has been in charge of the investigation into the Claremont Serial Abductions and killings, missed crucial opportunities to explore suspects including a suspicious character Con Bayens encountered in 2002.
The former head of WA's prostitution taskforce Con Bayens believes the taskforce missed crucial opportunities to explore suspects - including a suspicious character he encountered in 2002
Mr Bayens recalls the chilling night he pulled over a man during an undercover operation in Highgate in 2002 - 11 kilometres away from Claremont.
The boot was lined with blue plastic and there was a pair of pliers and masking tape – disturbing equipment which he believed appeared to be for an abduction.


The driver was questioned but Mr Bayens does not know why he was cleared in inquiries 

by officers on Task Force Macro, which was set up to investigate the killings.
The boot of the suspiciois man's car, that Chanel & reporter said looked like an undercover police car,  

was lined with blue plastic and there was a pair of pliers and masking tape – disturbing equipment which he believed appeared to be for an abduction
Mr Bayens said the head investigator into the killings had rejected his offer to pass on information from the undercover operation, 

which was uncovering people every night 'and every one of them had the potential to be the Claremont serial killer.'
However, his offer was rejected by the chief investigator, to his astonishment.
'He said, 'Don't worry about it, Con, we've got our man.' And those words will stick with me forever,' he said.
'That just hit about 10 on my weird s***-o-meter.'
WA Police insist they looked into the sinister man Mr Bayens encountered, but the former constable insists the enquiry never took place.

  Donald Victor Morey, aka Matusevich,Australia Claremont Serial Killer, 1996 - 1997, Perth, Western Australia - #6

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      Donald Victor Morey, aka Matusevich crabstick said:10-28-2016

         There is enough reports to suggest he is ex army. Im not sure how old he is. Yes, there is a few guys around 
          that use the Im ex SAS as a shield    when they fear someone might give them a clobber. He might have been   a                                         mechanic? selling $10,000 bundles  of amphetamine is organised   crime connections.    ' the was selling Sarah McMahon 
            $10,000 blocks of amphetamine,
              its not like he wouldn't have the cash for access to new vehicles, and cut and shut rebuild vehicles he could set up himself. 
              Built fake taxis even. Because a fake taxi didn't have to buy a taxi plate, fake taxis were a cash cow.

If             Morey is SAS or ex-military, he may have been trained in all the above. 
              Mechanic being one of the core subjects for SAS. (SAS barracks are a stones throw from Stirling road, Claremont.) 
            Being SAS with a station wagon set up with a LSD diff, Morey could have driven any the back dirt tracks off the main                      roads up and down to the dump site points with an element of ease. Police said, it is someone who polishes their car a lot,
                  with car and detail
  
                       Career Criminal  and self confessed SAS killer of many people, Donald Morey .. 
                         and has admitted he was the last person to see or talk to 

      Sarah Anne McMahan alive ... and according to his phone records was in the area of Bassendean the night Sarah Anne McMahon 
      was talking to Donald Morey on her telephone and saying she was heading to see a friend in Bassendean and there was 
      strong evidence that Donald Morey aka Matusevich
          lied to the coroner about being at his boss Mr Allen's truck yard on the night the 
      Sarah Anne McMahon Disappeared ... and a witness said she saw a bloodied dead body, with a rope around her neck that 
       looked like Sarah Anne McMahon is his room at his boss Mr Allen's home ... 
         and that evening and saw him carrying what looked liked a dead body over his shoulder wrapped up out of the house 
        that evening and said she helped clean up Donald's Morey's room at Mr Allen's home ... and Donald Morey aka Matusevich
         with Mr Allen's wife and Mr Allan saying that Donald Morey aka Matusevich
             had a bag with all the things needed to kill someone  that Donald Morey aka  always 
         carried around with him .... but the police after been told about this bag being at Mr and Mrs Allan's home waited for a about a week to go  and collect this important                           evidence ... giving plenty of time of Donald Morey's female partner he spent the weekends with in a house in    
         Chidlow ....to come and collect the black bag ... which gives the             strong impression that as a witness has said .. 
         that Donald Morey worked as a killer and a illegal drug dealer for corrupt police and other powerful politicians,
         powerful business people and the Chinese Triads and was protected by these corrupt police .,..
         who rang Donald Morey's female partner to inform her she better quickly collect Donald Morey's damming black bag which 
         help all the tools of trade to abduct and quickly and silently murder someone ..... 
        and Donald Morey says he has constant contact with Sarah Anne McMahon since November, 2000 ... 
         and Sarah Anne McMahon has not even contacted her own family ... and not contacted anyone else buy career criminal and
          self confessed killer .... yet will not tell anyone where Sarah Anne McMahon is .... other that saying she is living in Canada 
          under another name and has two children......
              then with all that evidence  why haven't the Western Australian Police arrested Donald Morey on some charge associated
         with the disappearance of Saran Anne McMahon before Donald Morey is released from prison sometime in 2017 when his
        13 year prison sentence ends .. so that Donald Morey can be refused bail while he goes to court over the new charge or charges  associated 
         with the disappearance of Sarah Ann McMahon on about the 8th of November, 2000.... 
          and at the same time further investigate the connection of Donald Morey with the abduction/murder of 
          Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon. Lisa Brown and other missing girls ... 

 Sarah Anne McMahon 
 who was last known to be talking to Donald Morey and under Donald Morey's own admission is the only person who knows the where abouts Sarah Anne McMahon ... 
    whether Sarah McMahon is dead of alive .... everyone is praying that Donald Morey was telling the truth …
     that Sarah McMcMahon is living in Canada and is happy with two children and asked Donald Morey's help to disappear because 
      Saran Anne McMahon's life was in extreme danger ..... there is one thing that is definite and true about Donald Morey's statement to the coroner .. 
      that is Sarah Ann McMahon's life was in extreme danger becaause of what she knew about what is known as the Claremont Serial Killings and who was involved ..
     this is because Sarah Anne McMahon opened up and gave a written and taped statement about her knowledge of who wad involved in
        the Claremont Serial Killings of Sarah Speirs, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon ... this was done in 1999 before Sarah Anne McMahon disppared on the 8th of November, 2000.....         Sarah Anne McMahon stated that the written and taped statement of her knowleldge of who was involved in 
      the Claremont Serial Killings of Sarah Speirs, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon  was not to be used unless she disappeared and/or or was thought to be murdered ...…
       Sarah Anne McMahon was asked why doesn't she bring the information she knows about 

   the Claremont Serial Killings of Sarah Speirs, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon to the authorities so these people involved can be arrested .... Sarah McMahon was in hysterical tears     saying if she tells what she knows the authorities she will be dead in a day ..... so as a safely measure and in a way some insurance Sarah 
     provided a sworn written statement and a tape recording of what she knows about the Claremont Serial Killings ....
       Since the arrest of Bradley Robert Edwards there has been many attempts to contact the Western Australian Police,
       the Western Australian Director of Public Prosecutions, the Western Australian Liberal Premier Colin Barnett,
       the Western Australian Liberal Party Attorney General Michael Minschin, the Western Australian Liberal Party Minister for Police Liza Harvey 
        to provide important information on the Claremont Serial Killings and other serious crimes committed in Western Australian...
       over the last 50 odd years from  the www.nyt.bz investigation files .. however none of these people and organisations have shown any interest 
         in having any extra information about the Claremont Serial Killings other than information that could help them take Bradley Robert Edwards 
       to trial for the murder of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon and will help convince the court and the Western Australian public and the Australian Public 
         and the world that Bradley Robert Edwards is the lone Claremont serial killer that all by himself abducted Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon and murdered 
             these the girls without any help form anyone else and planned and executed that abductions, murders and  dumping of the bodies all by himself ....

Career Criminal  and self confessed SAS killer of many people, Donald Morey .. and has admitted he was the last person to see or talk to Sarah Anne McMahon alive ... 
     and was in the area of Bassendean the night Sarah Anne McMahon was talking to Donald Morey on her telephone and saying she was heading to see a friend in Bassendean and there was strong evidence that Donald Morey lied to the coroner about being at his boss Mr Allen's truck yard on the night the Sarah Anne Disappeared ... and a witness said she saw a bloodied dead body, with a rope around he neck that looked like Sarah Anne McMahon is his room at his boss Mr Allen's home ... and that evening and saw him carrying what looked liked a dead body over his shoulder wrapped up out of the house that evening and said she helped clean up Donald's Morey's room at Mr Allen's home ... and Donald Morey ..with Mr Allan's wife and Mr Allan saying that Donald Morey had a bag with all the things needed to kill someone  that he always carried around with him .... but the police after been told about this bag being at Mr and Mrs Allan's home waited for a about a week to go and collect theis important evidence ... giving plenty of time of Donald Morey's female partner he spent the weekends with in a house in Chidlow ....to come and collect the black bag ... which gives the strong impression that as a witness has said .. that Donald Morey worked as a killer and a illegal drug dealer for corrupt police and other powerful politicians, powerful business people and the Chinese Triads and was protected by these corrupt police .,..who rang Donald Morey's female partner to inform her she better quickly collect Donald Morey's damming black bag which help all the tools of trade to abduct and quickly and silently murder someone ..... and Donald Morey says he has constant contact with Sarah Anne McMahon since November, 2000 ... and Sarah Anne McMahon has not even contacted her own family ... and not contacted anyone else buy career criminal and self confessed killer .... yet will not tell anyone where Sarah Anne McMahon is .... other that saying she is living in Canada under another name and has two children......
then with all that evidence  why haven't the Western Australian Police arrested Donald Morey on some charge associated with the disappearance of Saran Anne McMahon before Donald Morey is released from prison sometime in 2017 when his 13 year prison sentence ends .. so that Donald Morey can be refused bail while he goes to court over the new charge or charges associated with the disappearance of Sarah Ann McMahon on about the 8th of November, 2000.... and at the same time further investigate the connection of Donald Morey with the abduction/murder of Sarah Spiers, Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon. Lisa Brown and other missing girls .