Claremont: The Claremont Serial Killings

During day 74’s evidence, the court heard that Ciara’s hair mass was split into 16 sections, and was meticulously examined for 17 days at Chem Centre. During his fourth day on the stand, Chem Centre scientist Rees Powell was again giving evidence, today focussed on the 41 critical fibres found on Ciara Glennon. We got through 8 today, and 32 of the full 98 fibres critical to the prosecution’s case. As Tim Clarke explains in this episode, the prosecution may have been optimistic with their timeline of the fibre evidence. It takes around 8 hours to go through eight fibres, so luckily this podcast helps break down that immense detail. The part of the evidence Tim Clarke said he finds interesting, is how close the investigations into the fibres were to the start of the trial. One of the critical fibres was found in 2018, and a comparison with fibres from Bradley Edwards’ car made in May 2019 - just two months before the trial was originally due to start. As we know the trial was delayed for further fibre evi