I imagine the DOB would have been cited at the first court appearance at some point as a matter of process. Out of interest, was anyone from WS in the public gallery?
I too am interested in birth date and maternal grandmother's ID.
This article by Jacqueline Lang from The Starfish is quite an intimate overview of the first court appearance. Interesting that she took the time to note that he did not resemble much the photographs currently circulating on social media and is now sporting a moustache and seems to be smaller in stature than the photographs imply.
Link:
http://www.thestarfish.com.au/bradley-robert-edwards-man-behind-glass/
Then again, standing in the dock in front of a judge and a gallery of invested people on charges of deprivation of liberty and murder would no doubt make any man look small and powerless, regardless of sociopathy.
On a separate note, as someone who allegedly was quite meticulous, he certainly didn't cover his tracks in terms of a digital footprint. Nothing particularly of interest to be found beyond generic information.
I am still interested in links with previous relatively minor crimes from pre 1990 - including historic peeping tom cases or indecent assault. There does not seem to be any updated cohesive databases accessible to the public of historic unsolved cases in W.A beyond those news sources collated by freelancers interested in true crime and missing person cases.
I am inclined to think there is more links in the past to be dug up and quite possibly more than one serial rapist/murderer(s) that were in operation in W.A at the time. I mean, the Birnies were only apprehend in 1986 so there is seemingly some considerable overlap in serious crimes that were occurring in Perth at the time and the current missing/unsolved list.