The convicted killer has asked the state’s top criminal appeal court to overturn his conviction for the murder of his wife Lynette Simms, who vanished in 1982.
Chris Dawson has alleged he is the victim of a miscarriage of justice as he asks the state’s top criminal appeal court to overturn his conviction for the murder of his wife Lynette Simms., Justice Ian Harrison sentenced the now 75-year-old to a maximum of 24 years in prison for his act of “self-indulgent brutality” and set a non-parole period of 18 years.
Lawyers for Dawson, led by senior public defender Belinda Rigg, SC, last week filed amended appeal grounds in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal, ahead of a three-day hearing starting on Monday.as a result of the delay in instituting the criminal proceedings, “and to take that disadvantage into account when considering the evidence”.
“Chris Dawson discarded her; the Dawsons disregarded her; from today on, we would like her to be known and remembered as Lynette Joy Simms,” Lynette’s brother Greg Simms said.In a new ground of appeal, added last week, Dawson’s lawyers say a “miscarriage of justice was caused” by Harrison. In a record of interview with NSW Police on January 15, 1991, Dawson said he and Lynette had been having “matrimonial problems” and that he received an STD call from her that day while he was at Northbridge Baths, where he had a part-time job.
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