This is from a Post newspaper article from 2004
http://www.australianmissingpersonsregister.com/Spiers.htm
"Steven Ross (43), of Irwin Road, Embleton, told the POST this week the police should be looking for a fellow passenger, a man who had shared the taxi with Ms Spiers. Mr Ross said the man did not appear to know her. Mr Ross said another woman, also a stranger, had "doubled up" in the cab that night. Mr Ross said he dropped the second woman in Dalkeith. He said that she had never come forward. He said that after dropping the woman, he had taken the man and Ms Spiers to the Windsor Hotel, in South Perth. The man had pushed Ms Spiers out of the cab then paid the fare. "I think he came back to Claremont the next night, found her and killed her," Mr Ross said. Mr Ross, who had been a taxi driver at the time of the disappearances and murders, lives on a property owned by former Claremont mayor, school psychologist and civil rights campaigner Peter Weygers. Mr Weygers was using Mr Ross's former taxi, a Ford station wagon, when the police arrived at the Embleton property on Wednesday morning. They impounded and sealed the station wagon and another vehicle, a tray-top truck. Mr Weygers said Mr Ross used the vehicles in his work as a courier.
Mr Ross said that in 1996 he had made a statement to two Macro officers in the office of Claremont solicitor Grant Milner. Mr Milner confirmed this week that he had been present at the Mr Milner confirmed this week that he had been present at the interview. The Macro officers had been invited to hear Mr Ross's story. He said his recollection was that Mr Ross had been unsure about which night he had picked up Ms Spiers, and the police had not seemed very interested. Mr Milner said Mr Ross appeared to be an unsophisticated person, and sincere. He said he thought Mr Weygers had asked for the interview. (This part is a bit fishy..)
Police raided Mr Ross's home on Wednesday, armed with a search warrant that listed personal items belonging to the missing women. Mr Ross said he was not interested in talking to the police unless they released his taxi computer records for late January 1996. "I've got an alibi, but they won't give it to me," he said. "Without those records, I don't have an alibi for the time Sarah Spiers disappeared". "What if they accuse me of it? I know I was working that night., doing radio jobs. The computer records will prove it." He said he also wanted police to produce the young Dalkeith woman to corroborate his story. He said he had spoken to Sarah's father Don, many times of his suspicions about his male passenger. Mr Spiers had taken this information to police, he said. The car he was driving at the time Ciara Glennon was murdered is still available and registered as a taxi, he said.
There are two dwellings on Mr Weygers' Embleton property. Mr Weygers said he had bought the house from Mr Ross after Mr Ross got into financial difficulties when he lost his taxi licence. Mr Weygers said that about four years ago he had put a transportable unit on the back of the block and allowed Mr Ross to live there. He had completely stripped, renovated and re-painted the front house, which was now rented to a 20-year-old university student. Police seized the student's car and computer, containing all his university work this week. They sprayed the house with luminol, a toxic chemical which is a presumptive test for blood residue, which is indicated if the luminol glows in the dark. (Would that show up if the house had been stripped, renovated and re-painted?) Police scientists were at the house and the transportable most of the night. They probed the garden and searched both dwellings. Mr Ross said he had picked up Ms Spiers twice in the same night. The first trip had been from Wellington Street, Mosman Park, to Club Bay View, he said. He said the second had been from Claremont to South Perth. (What are the odds of him getting the same passenger twice in one night?) He said there had been a mix-up earlier in the night with a call from the same passenger. He said her name had come on his taxi computer screen and he asked if she was "Spier". He said she corrected him and said: "Spiers." He recalled that she had lived in Mill Point Road, South Perth.
Mr Weygers told the POST this week he had been driving the ex-taxi station wagon on Wednesday because his own car had broken down. He said police had told him they were leaving no stone unturned because a review of the Claremont serial killings was due later this year."
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/aussiecrime/conversations/topics/34
This one is from 2005, and it's pretty hectic.
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Jan 1, 2005
Macro hauls in taxi man
Macro detectives have again taken taxi driver Steven Ross off the streets for questioning about the Claremont serial killings.
They have also again seized the Falcon station wagon he was driving as a taxi at the time of the baffling murders.
"I was on the way to a job and they arrested me last Thursday," Mr Ross (43) told the POST.
"They took me to Curtin House (Macro headquarters) and questioned me about the murders.
"They showed me a power zapper (electric stun gun) I once owned and they had pictures I took of my girlfriend after she died. (MASSIVE WTF!!!???)
"They said they had taxi records that showed I had picked up Sarah Spiers on the night she went missing and took her to the Windsor Hotel.
"They said Mr Peter Weygers was waiting there at the Windsor.
"That is ********. They won't show me the taxi records and how could anyone have known I was driving to the Windsor [in South Perth]? I didn't know myself. (Um, I think they know because you mentioned it in the Post article last year ya dingbat)
"I didn't have a mobile phone in those days."
Mr Ross told police in 1996, shortly after Sarah Spiers (18) disappeared after a night out in Claremont, that he had picked up the teenager in Claremont the night before she disappeared and dropped her at the Windsor, near where she lived.
Ms Spiers had shared the cab with a stranger, a young man who got out of the cab with her, Mr Ross said (POST August 28).
In August this year, Macro detectives raided and searched Mr Ross's home in Embleton and impounded his two vehicles, the ex-taxi and a tray-top truck.
His house is owned by Mr Weygers, former Claremont mayor, child psychologist and president of the Council for Civil Liberties.
A month later, detectives forcibly took a hair from Mr Weygers' arm for DNA sampling, after taking him from his car on an Embleton street.
Later that day detectives raided and searched Mr Weygers' house in Richardson Avenue, Claremont (POST September 18).
Mr Ross said he had been taken from his truck in Seventh Avenue, Maylands, early on Thursday, December 16.
"They said Peter Weygers had kept newspaper clippings of the serial killings and had refused to voluntarily give DNA," he said. (Ding ding!)
Peter Weygers was Claremont mayor at the time and he and the council made many public statements on the abductions of the three women in 1996 and 1997.
Mr Ross said this week police had driven him around Claremont and pointed out various landmarks.
Police impounded the truck and seized the Falcon station wagon six days later by appointment.
They produced a stun gun he had bought for protection after he was stabbed in his taxi in 1987.
"They found out about the power zapper from their files," Mr Ross said.
"They asked where it was - I told them who had it. I said you can see them used in movies - they freeze people.
"The police said I used it to stun people in my taxi.
"I dropped in water and it wouldn't work so I gave it to a woman friend."
He said he had used the zapper only on a cat, which ran away after being zapped. (Seriously, this is just getting worse)
About 200 taxi drivers had bought the weapons from another driver who bought them in Germany and sold them for $200 each, he said.
Police produced photos Mr Ross had taken of his girlfriend in bed after she had died of an illness in the early 1990s, and also pictures of her funeral.
"They called me a sick person," he said.
Mr Ross's girlfriend, a former beauty queen, died at home while Mr Ross was at a police station being questioned by police over a fare over-charging complaint, which was later dismissed.
Mr Ross had contacted Mr Weygers as president of the Council for Civil Liberties after he became worried because a police officer suggested he would be blamed for the death.
Mr Weygers had then helped him fight various Taxi Board inquiries (seems like this guy has a few issues with passengers..) and had bought his house and allowed Mr Ross to live in a transportable home at the back.
Mr Ross said Mr Weygers had gone overseas the day before police had picked him up last week.
Earlier this month, a five-person international review team revealed it had uncovered a new line of inquiry in the Claremont serial killings, based on scientific examination of samples taken from the grave site of murdered 23-year-old Jane Rimmer (POST December 11)."
And here is Weygers defending a rapist:
"WA Council for Civil Liberties president Peter Weygers, who counsels students as a Department of Education psychologist, claimed Narkle had been wrongly convicted of rape at least three times, angering parent groups and politicians.
Mr Weygers, an ardent Narkle supporter, yesterday compared the violent rapist with soccer star David Beckham, who has been beset by a sex scandal.
"Some women are drawn to David Beckham because he is rich and famous and some women are attracted to Gary Narkle," Mr Weygers said. "Women like this are attracted to him, they will turn around and do it again. He is blamed when they voluntarily have sex with him and later regret it."
He said Narkle, who was freed on Friday after prosecutors said his alleged 14th victim was too distraught to testify against him, was not a danger to women.
"He is a sensitive person, he is an artist and these women have turned to him and then have regretted it."
Mr Weygers, who was awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal for the advancement of human rights and civil liberties, said he was a registered psychologist and had been a school counsellor for 32 years but had not done a proper psychological assessment of Narkle."
And here is a case taken out against Weygers for sexually harassing female staff at a school he was working at "http://www.docstoc.com/docs/41704651/The-Department-of-Education-and-Training--v--Peter-Hans-Weygers"