A search for understandingĪ thoughtful man, Mr Glennon comes across as a rationalist, someone with a deep need to understand the world and events around him. Put simply, 'the loss of Ciara was more than I could bear'. 'I felt angry towards the murderer, the police and the local council, who (in my view) had not done enough to address safety and security issues in Claremont following the earlier disappearances of two other women in similar circumstances.' He was also consumed by anger, 'the likes of which I had not known I owned,' he writes in the book. 'What is it that we did or didn't do that allowed this to happen to us.' 'Why do You let such awful things happen to good people? The physical side was just one manifestation of Mr Glennon's inner turmoil. 'When this type of grief hits you, the first thing you notice is an absence of a will to push on, absolute lethargy, continual exhaustion, resulting from just total lack of sleep,' he says. It's the sort of book he wishes was available to him as he embarked on a desperate and initially unfulfilling search for understanding and a way forward, particularly as he wrestled with his raw emotions in the early weeks and months. Pastures of Healing is an unflinching look into the abyss that opened in Mr Glennon's life upon Ciara's death. Select ' Western Australia Top Stories' from either the ABC News homepage or the settings menu in the app. Now, 26 years on from the unfathomable loss of Ciara, Mr Glennon has written a book detailing his experiences of grief, and how he ultimately came to find a sense of contentment after enduring the worst of times. It would take a further 19 years for her murderer to be arrested, and almost four more years for the Glennon family to finally achieve some justice when, in 2020, Bradley Robert Edwards was found guilty of killing Ciara and 23-year-old Jane Rimmer, after the state's longest-ever criminal trial. Lawyer Ciara Glennon pictured in the 1990's.

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