Judge to deliver verdict in Chris Dawson murder trial | _SarahMcPhee
Justice Ian Harrison will hand down his verdict from 10am AEST on Tuesday in the murder trial of former teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson, 40 years after his first wife Lynette Dawson vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches.
She moved into his home during her HSC year in October 1981, but moved out the following month, after she said she was confronted by Lynette who said, “you’ve been taking liberties with my husband”. JC claimed that in late 1981, Dawson had parked his car outside a building while she waited inside wearing her school uniform. She alleged he later told her, “I went inside to get a hitman to kill Lyn, but then I decided I couldn’t do it because innocent people could be hurt”.Dawson told police this was a “complete and utter fabrication”.
Dawson said he had dropped Lynette off at a Mona Vale bus stop to go shopping on January 9, 1982, but instead of meeting him at the Northbridge Baths later that day, she had called to say she “needed time away”. The prosecutor said it “beggars belief” that Dawson would have then brought JC into his matrimonial home “if he honestly, truthfully believed” his wife was returning within a few days.
Defence barrister Pauline David, who has since been sworn in as a judge of the NSW District Court, said Dawson gave his wife a reason to not want to be with him when he left their home with JC.
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