Lynette Dawson had 'huge, horrible back eye' when she met former colleague, murder trial told
Lynette Dawson had "a huge, horrible black eye" underneath sunglasses when she and her husband ran into a former colleague in a mall, a Sydney court has heard.When she met Ms Dawson again years later in a shopping mall she didn't recognise her
Ms Dawson's husband, former teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson, denies involvement in her disappearance in January 1982 and has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the NSW Supreme Court. She said years later, she ran into Ms Dawson at Warringah Mall, and initially didn't recognise her because she had shorter hair and was wearing sunglasses, which she then took off.Chris and Lynette Dawson at a high school function where they met aged 16.She recalled trying to "make it not so horrible for her" and started discussing how she once had a black eye."I said that I ran into a doorknob.""She ran into a doorway," the witness replied.
The witness could not recall exactly what year the encounters occurred, but believed it was before her third child was born in 1977.
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