Making news in Western Australia in 2020
The big news stories for WA in 2020.
CLAREMONT: Police and 科学の 専門家s will take the stand at the 裁判，公判 of （刑事）被告 Claremont serial 殺し屋 Bradley Robert Edwards in 2020. The next 段階 follows harrowing 証拠 from 犠牲者s of the 自白するd rapist, 含むing a woman who was 18 when she was attacked in her Huntingdale home in 1988 and a then 17-year-old girl who was 誘拐するd and 強姦d in Karrakatta 共同墓地 in 1995. Edwards, an ex-Telstra 専門家技術者, pleaded 有罪の to both those attacks but not 有罪の to 殺人ing 長官 Sarah Spiers, 18, childcare 労働者 Jane Rimmer, 23, and lawyer Ciara Glennon, 27. The three women disappeared from the leafy Perth 郊外's entertainment （土地などの）細長い一片 in 1996 and 1997. The 裁判官-only 裁判，公判 is 推定する／予想するd to finish by 中央の-year but a 判決 could take months.
CORRUPTION: A 上級の bureaucrat （刑事）被告 with two others of WA's biggest public 部門 窃盗 will return to 法廷，裁判所 in February. Former Department of Communities (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Paul Whyte, 56, is 直面するing 530 汚職 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s over the 申し立てられた／疑わしい $22 million 詐欺. Whyte, who 安全な・保証するd 保釈（金） for a second time after 試みる／企てるing to take his own life, has signalled through his lawyer that he will 罪を認める to the 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s and 直面するs a 非常に長い 刑務所，拘置所 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語. Political 観察者／傍聴者s 予報する その上の public 部門 汚職 主張s will come to light.
SHARK: 地元のs are 嘆く／悼むing experienced scuba diver Gary Johnson, killed by a white shark off the Esperance coast five days into the new year. It's in the same area 17-year-old Laeticia Brouwer was fatally attacked while surfing with her father in 2017. The 悲劇 comes as 専門家s call for the SMART drumline 裁判，公判 to be scrapped after catching just two white sharks in nearly a year.
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