The mother of Claremont serial killer victim Jane Rimmer has passed away, aged 81.
Jennifer Rimmer died on May 28, just days short of the 28-year anniversary of when her daughter became the second woman to be snatched off the streets of Claremont after a night out in 1996.
Jennifer was the one who raised the alarm with police after Jane, 23, failed to show up to a Sunday lunch event. Her daughter’s body was found three weeks later in bushland south of Perth.
The grieving mother waited more than 20 years for her daughter’s killer, Bradley Robert Edwards to finally be arrested and eventually found guilty of murdering the former childcare worker.
Jennifer, despite her deteriorating health, attended parts of the trial, and the verdict day. Jane’s father Trevor died nearly 20 years ago.
Jennifer Rimmer attending the trial of her daughter, Jane’s, murderer in 2020. Credit: WAtoday
In a victim impact statement read by Justice Stephen Hall at Edwards’ sentencing, Jennifer said she believed the trauma of losing Jane had made Trevor more susceptible to his battle with cancer.
“She says that losing Jane made a huge difference to all the people in her family. She reflects on what might have been,” he said.
“She believes that Jane would have married and had children, she says that Jane would have been a wonderful mother, she says that Jane having children is something that she thinks about often and misses.”
Jennifer is survived by her two children, Lee and Adam, and her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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