Chris Dawson

A babysitter who worked for Chris Dawson tells a murder trial the former school teacher made her fear for her life and treated her like a "sex slave" after ...

JC also denied Ms David's suggestion she was unkind and argumentative towards Ms Dawson and wanted Mr Dawson all to herself, instead claiming she actually wanted him to "leave me alone". JC told the court her relationship with Mr Dawson went through an "enormous" change because she had a stronger bond with Kristen compared to the Dawson children, Shanelle and Sherryn. During cross-examination of JC, Mr Dawson's barrister Pauline David argued she had genuine affection for him during the "early stage of the 1980s" to which JC replied: "In the grooming stage, you mean?" "I was taking care of two children, having to learn to cook, having to learn to clean ... having to learn how to be a substitute house-keeper, sex slave, step-mother, babysitter ... slave ... just a slave," she told the court. JC told the court Mr Dawson then started treating her like his "slave". On JC's return to Sydney, she continued living with Mr Dawson at his family home in Bayview, began sleeping in his bed, and wearing Ms Dawson's clothes.

The then-teenager who married Chris Dawson after his wife disappeared has told his murder trial that he once tried to hire a hitman.

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The teenage babysitter, known as JC, gave evidence at Chris Dawson's murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court that he would leave her birthday and Valentine's ...

The defence says Dawson may have failed Lynette as a husband, but he did not kill her. It was 1980, and I was 16,” the woman, now 58 and known as JC for legal reasons, said on Wednesday afternoon. She said Lynette was welcoming and Dawson was “very distant” with his wife, singing her “cruel” songs “with double meanings”. She said Dawson had called her Petal, “very early in the piece”. One of the cards, for Christmas 1980, ended, “Love Always, God”. Another was for Valentine’s Day in February 1981, and read, “I love you”. JC said Dawson “used to leave notes of love and affection” in a schoolbag he had bought for her, “whenever I went to biology, and he knew where the classroom was”. JC said that in 1980, Dawson was her high school physical education teacher, and told her he had seen her in the playground the previous year, “and decided that he would like to get to know me better because I was attractive to him”.

Chris Dawson's former family babysitter tells a murder trial the former rugby league player used to give his wife alcoholic drinks so she would sleep while ...

Mr Dawson rejects this claim. The former babysitter said during her time living with the couple, Mr Dawson would often sing "cruel" songs about his wife, inferring that she was unattractive. Mr Dawson's lawyers have told the court the former rugby league player and his wife were having marital problems but that he never wanted to "get rid of her" and she left of her own accord in January 1982. The babysitter told the court that, once she was living with the couple, she noticed Mr Dawson was very "distant" with his wife and made her alcoholic drinks at night that would make her fall asleep. "She would fall asleep, sometimes in the chair, sometimes she would excuse herself to go to bed," the woman told the court. - She told the court Mr Dawson used to call his wife "fatso"

The former schoolgirl who married Chris Dawson after he allegedly murdered his wife Lynette has described how she feared for her life after he violently ...

If JC asked where Lyn was he told her 'she went away with religious people' but 'I thought it always was a fob off. Asked whether she was making up 'lies' to try and destroy Chris Dawson, JC replied, 'I’m not going to destroy him. I destroyed most of them.' All my love forever XXX'. I brought it up one time and said 'you got rid of your first wife, you could easily get rid of me'. 'I don’t think I was ever an adult in that relationship. Romantic cards to the teenage schoolgirl who told the court on Thursday that in the same year he drove her in her school uniform over the Sydney Harbour Bridge to a building site and told her afterwards he had planned to hire a hitman to kill his wife He said 'you are only going to wear it for me' . The court heard on Thursday that Dawson gave the girl the romantic cards in the same year he drove her in her school uniform over the Sydney Harbour Bridge to a building site and told her afterwards he had planned to hire a hitman to kill his wife. The court also released cards and notes Dawson left in JC's schoolbag in the year that the schoolgirl - who was half Dawson's age - went to live at the family home and swim topless in front of his wife in the family pool. Chris Dawson was not happy' . I didn’t make any decisions.

Under cross-examination at Chris Dawson's murder trial, his former student and second wife JC dismissed the suggestion she was determined to destroy him.

Have you heard anything?” to which Dawson replied that she had been seen in Perth or the Central Coast. JC claims that on their wedding day, Dawson grabbed her around the neck. “[I was] having to learn to be the substitute housekeeper, sex slave, stepmother, babysitter. Slave, just a slave,” she claimed.Chris Dawson’s former student and second wife, known as JC The Crown alleges on or about January 8, Dawson murdered his wife and disposed of her body. The court heard the card had read, “All my love on our first real Christmas together.

A teenager who moved into Chris Dawson's home after his wife's disappearance has claimed during his murder trial she was subject to “daily” domestic ...

JC told the court that Mr Dawson was frustrated by her inability to emotionally connect with the two daughters he had with Lynette Dawson. “I was 18, I was taking care of two children, having to learn to cook, having to learn to clean, having to learn to be the substitute housekeeper, sex slave, stepmother, babysitter, slave,” JC told the court. JC told the court that Mr Dawson drove to South West Rocks on about January 10 or 11 to take her back to Sydney and she immediately moved into Gilwinga Drive and slept in what was Ms Dawson’s former bed. “I understand there is that inconsistency and I corrected that in a later statement … I was wrong to say it was later on,” JC said. Mr Dawson’s barrister Pauline David said that JC had first made the “hitman” allegation in a statement to police in 1990 shortly after her “acrimonious” separation from Mr Dawson. The court was told Mr Dawson taught the teenager at a Sydney school and later moved her into his Bayview home in late 1981, where he lived with Lynette and his two young daughters, as a live-in nanny.