Racist killer recaptured

"I want to kill all the white people"

One of Western Australia's longest-serving prisoners, locked up indefinitely for murdering a young white couple while on the run from jail, has been recaptured after ten days on the run following his escape from a minimum-security prison farm. Brian William Edwards was arrested on April 7, 2005 by heavily armed police in a bush camp south of Perth.
    It was Edwards' third escape from prison during a near 40-year criminal career. 
    West Australians were warned not to approach Edwards under any circumstances, with police describing the 48-year-old Aboriginal as extremely dangerous, unpredictable and resourceful. 
   During Edwards' last stint on the run in 1979 he stole a farm vehicle containing a rifle and shot dead young lovers Susan Mills and Stephen Carvey who were picnicking in Dawesville, in the state's south-west. 
   When recaptured days later, he pleaded guilty to two counts of wilful murder, telling a judge he shot them only because he hated white people. 
    See "Why are Aboriginals over-represented in jails?"

Brian William Edwards told people in his home town of Dowerin in WA that "I want to kill all the white people"