WA: Forensic work continues after police raid

AAP General News (Australia)
08-26-2004
WA: Forensic work continues after police raid

Police investigating the murders of three young Perth women are continuing forensic
investigations after raiding the home of a taxi driver and seizing two cars.

Police attached to Taskforce Macro, are investigating the disappearance of 18 year-old
SARAH SPIERS, JANE RIMMER 23, and CIARA GLENNON, 27, yesterday swooped on the Embleton
home of a middle-aged man.

The man worked as a taxi driver when the women went missing from the affluent Perth
suburb of Claremont in 1996 and 1997, and one of the cars being scrutinised by police
was once used as a taxi.

Most of Perth's 3,500 cab drivers provided DNA mouth swab samples over Easter 1997
after police aired suspicions that a taxi driver was responsible for the murders.





It is understood the taxi driver in question approached police some years ago claiming
one of the women may have been a passenger in his cab.

Police will review the evidence seized from the site as part of the ongoing Macro inquiry
- Australia's longest running and most expensive murder investigation.

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KEYWORD: MACRO (PERTH)

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