Mr Edwards pleaded guilty to common assault and his fingerprints were entered into the database. He apologised to her after the attack ended. The next day, while working as a Telstra technician at Hollywood Hospital, Mr Edwards pounced on an unsuspecting social worker in a back office, grabbing her from behind, covered her mouth and nose with a piece of material and tried to drag her into a toilet cubicle before the woman kicked him and broke free. One night in May 1990 she confessed to being unfaithful earlier in the relationship, which “deeply distressed” him, the court heard. Sole convictionĪt 21, Mr Edwards had moved in with his girlfriend and future first wife in Noranda. Camera Icon A kimono claimed to be worn by Mr Edwards. Decades later, that kimono was forensically tested in a cold case review and was allegedly found to contain DNA matching Mr Edwards’. The teenage fought back and the attacker, who the young woman described as tall and wearing a nightie, fled, but in his haste left behind two items - black knotted stockings and a white kimono. Mr Edwards allegedly got in through an unlocked back door, closed the parents’ door and unplugged the telephone line before straddling the sleeping girl’s back, forcing a cloth in her mouth and attacking her. Mr Edwards’ defence lawyer Paul Yovich said by many accounts, his client as a 19-year-old did not show a great deal of interest in girls, but disagreed that he had never had a girlfriend or been in an intimate relationship.īut Ms Barbagallo claimed these were the first steps in an escalating pattern of offending that within less than a decade, would culminate in the State’s most notorious serial killings. The Huntingdale prowler stopped around the same time Mr Edwards met his first wife, the court was told. Four fingerprints were left on a rear sliding door at one house the prowler scoped - which would become crucial to the case against Mr Edwards. Some of the alleged reports claim the prowler was wearing nighties, dressing gowns, kimonos and in one case underwear on his head. In another instance, a woman was disturbed and allegedly assaulted when the prowler burst out of her toilet. On one occasion, he was disturbed in a spare room rifling through drawers.
The prowler was seen creeping around houses, tried to break into houses and stole women’s clothing or underwear off clotheslines including a white satin kimono. The prosecutor alleged Mr Edwards was the “Huntingdale prowler”, who targeted houses on nine occasions from January to October 1988 within a 1km radius of his family’s Gay Street home, which he shared with his parents and younger brother and sister. That’s the description deputy DPP Carmel Barbagallo provided to the Supreme Court this week of a 19-year-old Bradley Robert Edwards.
Fetish for wearing and stealing women’s underwear.
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