Accused Claremont killer pleads not guilty to all charges
Accused Claremont killer Bradley Robert Edwards has pleaded not guilty to all charges relating to the deaths of Sarah Spiers, Ciara Glennon and Jane Rimmer.
Mr Edwards appeared briefly in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on Wednesday morning via video link from Hakea Prison, his first appearance since February.
He is charged with the murders of Ms Spiers, Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon in the 1990s, a case that became known nationwide as the Claremont serial killings.
The three women went missing from the western suburb's popular late-night district in 1996 and 1997.
Mr Edwards was arrested by WA Police cold case detectives at his Kewdale home in December 2016.
He was initially charged with the murders of Ms Rimmer, 23, and Ms Glennon, who disappeared in similar circumstances in 1996 and 1997 respectively.
Police earlier this year added the third murder charge over the death of 18-year-old Ms Spiers, who went missing in January 1996.
Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon's bodies were found in bushland in the weeks after they went missing, however Ms Spiers' body has never been found.
Mr Edwards is also facing charges over the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl at Karrakatta Cemetery in 1995 and indecent assault of an 18-year-old woman in a Huntingdale home in 1988.
He pleaded not guilty to six charges in relation to the alleged 1988 and 1995 offences.
Ms Spiers' father Don and Ms Glennon's father Denis were in court on Wednesday for the hearing, sitting alongside several detectives who were part of the team that arrested Mr Edwards.
Both Mr Spiers and Mr Glennon declined to speak to media as they left court with the detectives.
State prosecutor Bradley Hollingsworth asked for provisional trial dates to be set aside, beginning May next year, however the request was not approved by Magistrate Jan Whitbread.
Mr Edwards will face court again in September for a mention hearing.