However, a Legal Aid application made by Edwards on November 9 was rejected by the state government on December 1.
Jane Rimmer.
The knock-back meant Edwards would have to privately fund any appeal after the taxpayer footed the $3.5 million bill for his legal team during his first trial, which went for 95 sitting days.
Funds from the eventual sale of Edwards’ Kewdale home, purchased with his second wife for $135,000 in 2000, have already been reserved to help pay his original Legal Aid bill.
The door has not completely closed for Edwards to appeal, however, with the option still available for him to make an application ‘out of time’.
The prosecution’s case against Edwards centred on his DNA, found underneath Ms Glennon’s fingernails, and fibres from his Telstra work pants and vehicle found on both Ms Glennon and Ms Rimmer’s bodies, along with the similar manner in which they disappeared and died.
His previous conviction for abducting and raping a teenager from Claremont a year before the murders begun also formed part of the propensity evidence.
He was found not guilty of murdering Sarah Spiers, 18, whose body has never been found.
Ciara Glennon.
