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First week of the Claremont serial killer trial grapples with the many faces of Bradley Edwards
An uncommunicative and emotionally distant man who showed little reaction to bombshells in his personal life?
Or a romantic and attentive suitor and committed family man who led a normal life in the southern suburbs of Perth?
Two ex-wives, two ex-girlfriends, other friends — both male and female — and work colleagues all gave their versions of Bradley Edwards in court this week, and it was at times a wildly contradictory picture.
The apparently tender side of Edwards was evidenced by the red roses and cards he sent to women he was trying to woo, and in the home video images projected to the court showing Edwards as a doting stepfather to his second wife's young daughter.
In stark contrast was the indifferent and uncommunicative man of which his first wife spoke, who ignored her as he spent long evenings late at night on his computer and never sought to discover why she eventually left him.
The prosecution argues the three alleged murders took place at emotionally volatile periods in Edwards's life, following a pattern it said was already established by his attack on a random woman at Hollywood Hospital in 1990.
This violent assault, which took place as he worked on the hospital's phone lines and to which he immediately confessed, happened the night after he had a row with his then-girlfriend over whether the couple would marry, she told the court.
But there were some inconsistencies in the accounts, with his second wife attributing the attack instead to Edwards's discovery of his first wife's infidelity prior to their marriage.
An uncommunicative and emotionally distant man who showed little reaction to bombshells in his personal life?
Or a romantic and attentive suitor and committed family man who led a normal life in the southern suburbs of Perth?
Two ex-wives, two ex-girlfriends, other friends — both male and female — and work colleagues all gave their versions of Bradley Edwards in court this week, and it was at times a wildly contradictory picture.
The apparently tender side of Edwards was evidenced by the red roses and cards he sent to women he was trying to woo, and in the home video images projected to the court showing Edwards as a doting stepfather to his second wife's young daughter.
In stark contrast was the indifferent and uncommunicative man of which his first wife spoke, who ignored her as he spent long evenings late at night on his computer and never sought to discover why she eventually left him.
The prosecution argues the three alleged murders took place at emotionally volatile periods in Edwards's life, following a pattern it said was already established by his attack on a random woman at Hollywood Hospital in 1990.
This violent assault, which took place as he worked on the hospital's phone lines and to which he immediately confessed, happened the night after he had a row with his then-girlfriend over whether the couple would marry, she told the court.
But there were some inconsistencies in the accounts, with his second wife attributing the attack instead to Edwards's discovery of his first wife's infidelity prior to their marriage.
Those who know him best have presented wildly different versions of Bradley Edwards
Ex-wives, ex-girlfriends, friends and colleagues all testified this week in the triple-murder trial, but their testimony paints a wildly conflicting image of the accused Claremont serial killer.
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