A COLD case homicide has been solved after 40 years as a husband is discovered responsible of murdering his spouse to cowl up a secret affair along with his babysitter.
Chris Dawson, 73, was convicted of killing his spouse Lynette following a seven-week trial involving new witness testimonies and proof.
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NSW Supreme Court docket Justice Ian Harrison mentioned there was “little question” that housewife Lyn died a while round 8 January 1982 “on account of a acutely aware or voluntary act dedicated by Christopher Dawson”.
The 33-year-old disappeared from her house within the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, in 1982 and was just lately the topic of the 2018 true-crime podcast The Trainer’s Pet.
In December 2018, Dawson was arrested by Aussie police after the podcast and media curiosity helped construct proof towards him in connection along with his spouse’s homicide.
Justice Harrison threw out claims Lyn had deserted her husband and youngsters to fade with out a hint or that she had been noticed alive and had tried to contact her husband.
Dawson has denied the costs towards him and pleaded not responsible within the two-month trial. His legal professionals have vowed to launch an enchantment.
In delivering his verdict, Justice Harrison mentioned: “I’m glad past cheap doubt that the telephone name materials and the sightings proof don’t set up that Lynette Dawson was alive in circumstances to which they individually relate.
“I’m glad that not one of the alleged sightings was a real sighting of Lynette Dawson.
“My conclusions in that respect have within the first occasion been based mostly upon the incidents thought of individually.
“The entire of the proof satisfies me that Lynette Dawson is lifeless, that she died on or about 8 January, 1982 and that she didn’t voluntarily abandon her house.”
The 73-year-old former Sydney rugby league participant and trainer was accused of murdering his spouse and disposing of her physique as a result of he was “infatuated” with one among his teenage babysitter.
Opening his trial on Monday, crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC mentioned Dawson had referred to as his spouse a “fats and ugly b****”.
He advised the decide that Dawson had entered a consensual relationship along with his babysitter, identified solely as JC, and had repeatedly requested her to marry him.
JC moved into his house inside days of her disappearance and so they pair finally married in 1984 and cut up six years later.
Dawson allegedly tried to promote his Bayview house with out his spouse’s permission, briefly transferring to Queensland to start out a brand new life with JC earlier than going again to Sydney.
Decide Ian Harrison was advised Dawson thought of hiring a hitman to do away with his spouse, however determined towards it as a result of “harmless folks can be harm”.
Dawson, who now lives in Queensland along with his third spouse, bizarrely claimed he had noticed Lyn within the background of an episode of the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow filmed in Padstow, Cornwall.
A lot of the podcast The Trainer’s Pet, produced by The Australian, focuses on Chris Dawson’s relationship along with his former pupil, often known as JC, with whom he began a relationship when she was simply 16.
Dawson moved the schoolgirl into the household house to take care of his and Lyn’s two kids whereas she was nonetheless alive.
The husband introduced that his pupil can be residing with them, which reportedly sparked a fierce row.
In an interview with police from 1998 which seems on the podcast, JC describes how Dawson allegedly took benefit of her, and the way she finally agreed to marry him after he saved hassling her.
JC began sharing Dawson’s mattress simply two days after Lyn disappeared.
He took six weeks to report his spouse was lacking, explaining her absence by suggesting she had joined a spiritual cult.
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