Constant watch on kill accused

THE accused Claremont serial killer is being supervised around the clock amid suggestions he harmed his ear with a pencil before a court hearing.

WA 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.

Corrective Services Commissioner Tony Hassall said yesterday it was not yet clear what happened. But Edwards (pictured), who has refused to say what transpired, was alone at the time and “staff didn’t hear anything”.

“He’s -- been moved to anmel Barbagallo outlined proother prison. He’s on a differpensity evidence that she seeks ent level of supervision – pretty to be deemed admissible for much 24-hour supervision,” the judge-alone trial, which is Mr Hassall told ABC radio. scheduled to start on July 22.

“When he’s in his cell overThe evidence included devi- night, there’s a CCTV camera ces found at his house containin there and there’s constant ing material that, the state supervision on that unit for says, “establishes that the achim as an individual.” cused had or has an obsessive

Edwards was taken to hossexual interest in the abducpital after he was found by a tion, imprisonment and forcprison guard with what authible rape of women in orities described as relatively degrading and violent circumminor injuries, which caused a stances”. pre-trial hearing to be adIt also emerged Edwards journed. could not explain his DNA on

It resumed on Tuesday and the fingernails of one of three there were plenty of explosive murder victims, Ciara Glenrevelations as prosecutor Car- non, 27.