Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson will either be found guilty of murder or acquitted as a highly anticipated judgment is delivered...

No charges were laid, however, until Dawson was arrested at his Gold Coast home in December 2018. According to evidence given at trial, JC moved into the Dawson home within days of the disappearance. Inquests in 2001 and 2003 recommended that a "known person" be charged with the murder of Mrs Dawson.

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Dawson, 74, is accused of murdering his wife and disposing of her body so he could have an unfettered relationship with his then teenage babysitter.

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Did not feel the need to inform her husband when her final decision was reached." Former school teacher Chris Dawson will learn today whether he will be jailed for the murder of his wife Lynette. - And an experienced pilot, a millionaire businessman and his son have been identified as the three people killed in a light plane crash west of Brisbane yesterday. "The only evidence that Mr Dawson received a call from Lynette is from Mr Dawson," he said. [9News.com.au](http://9news.com.au/) live blog for Tuesday, August 30, 2022.

Four decades after Lynette Dawson vanished from Sydney's northern beaches, a judge is preparing to hand down his verdict in one of Australia's most ...

"I'm satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Dawson's various reports ... By Heath Parkes-Hupton

A decision will be made on Tuesday in the infamous murder case of former teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson, who is accused of killing his wife to ...

She told the court she had sex with her former teacher while his wife was asleep. The couple didn’t make it to Queensland, instead turning around when JC felt ill. Mr Dawson was silent as he walked into the Sydney Downing Centre on Tuesday morning to hear the judge’s final decision. After a three-month trial, Justice Ian Harrison SC is now delivering his findings, with Mr Dawson to learn if he will return home with a not-guilty verdict. The 33-year-old nurse was last seen on Friday 8, 1982 when she spoke to her mother on the phone. After telling the court he believed none of the five alleged sightings of Lynette Dawson following her death were “genuine”, Justice Harrison ruled the mother-of-two was dead - and had not left her home of her own accord.

Chris Dawson will either be found guilty of murder or acquitted as a highly anticipated judgement is delivered over the 40-year-old disappearance of his ...

He described the theory as “frail speculation” and “extremely unlikely”, saying she “had a loving relationship with her family” and “adored her husband”. He said given she was Dawson’s student and that the teacher was married, the sexual “relationship overstepped what was acceptable”. The judge said he accepted that by 1981 the marriage was in a state of “incipient failure”. The judge said “it is not in contest” that there have been “significant delays” in the case. He said he felt the podcast was taken to have had a “significant” impact on proceedings. Justice Harrison has said he found the police investigation into the matter was on one view was “lackadasaical” while he has also turned an eye to The Australian’s Teacher’s Pet podcast’s influence on the case.

Supreme court verdict brings to a close the high-profile case that was the subject of the popular Teacher's Pet podcast.

This was one of a series of reasons which Harrison gave to dismiss the possibility that Lynette Dawson left of her own accord. These reasons included that she adored her children, was mentally stable, had not taken any clothing or personal belongings with her, and had made plans for the future. Harrison agreed that Lynette Dawson died on this date, dismissing claims by Dawson that his wife had called him after this date as “lies”. He had told her “Lyn’s gone, she’s not coming back, come back to Sydney and help look after the kids and live with me”. He’ll continue to assert that innocence and he’ll certainly appeal.” After they arrived home, she told Dawson she wanted to end the relationship, which he did not want to happen, Harrison found. Harrison dismissed several reported sightings of Lynette Dawson which occurred after 8 January 1982. He also made clear on multiple occasions that Dawson did not have to prove nor disprove any evidence in the case. Earlier, Harrison had rejected the possibility Lynette Dawson voluntarily abandoned her husband and children to vanish without a trace. She contacted Dawson every day via a reverse charge call from a payphone, as Dawson had told her to. and that she did not voluntarily abandon her home,” the judge said on Tuesday. Dawson, 73, had been accused of killing Lynette Dawson in 1982.

Christopher Dawson murdered his wife in January 1982 because he was so tortured at the thought of losing...

Come back to Sydney and help me look after the children and be with me," Dawson said to JC over the phone before he drove up from Sydney to collect her. This led the judge to completely reject the proposition she had abandoned the home with only the clothes on her back. "Lyn's gone. "I am left in no doubt. "The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Lynette Dawson is dead, that she died on or about 8 January 1982 and that she did not voluntarily abandon her home," he judge said. Advertisement

Justice Ian Harrison has handed down his verdict in the murder trial of former teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson, finding him guilty of murdering ...

She was 33 at the time and her body has never been found. She was 33 at the time and her body has never been found but the judge says that the whole of the circumstantial evidence “satisfies me that Lynette Dawson is dead”. The disappearance was the subject of a 2018 podcast by investigative journalist Hedley Thomas called The Teacher’s Pet, which attracted a global audience to the case.

A judge says he is satisfied Lynette Dawson died on or about January 8, 1982 as a result of a conscious and voluntary act by husband Chris Dawson with the ...

He was satisfied that by some time towards the end of 1981, Dawson considered his marriage to be in "a state of incipient failure", however he was not satisfied the former teacher was also "physically violent" towards Ms Dawson. We would ask Chris also to find it in himself, to be allow us to bring him home for peaceful rest. Justice Harrison said he was "not able to be satisfied" such a conversation took place, however, he otherwise found JC's evidence to be "truthful and reliable". He said the elderly Dawson was "in shock" and "upset" at being found guilty of murder. The judge said he was satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Lynette Dawson died as a result of a conscious and voluntary act by Chris Dawson with the intention of causing her death. "She's still missing.

Chris Dawson faced trial in Australia over the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Lynette.

But he concluded she did not "abandon" her home voluntarily, as the defence suggested. Mr Dawson resolved to kill his wife," he told the New South Wales Supreme Court. He said he also received several phone calls from her afterwards. Ashen and dazed. Chris Dawson appeared to be in shock as he stepped into a lift on the 13th floor of the court with his older brother, Peter, and his lawyer during a break in the judge's deliberations. The judge found Dawson was "possessively obsessed" with his teenage babysitter, who is known as JC for legal reasons, and wanted her as a "replacement" for his wife.

One of Australia's longest-running cold cases documented in the popular "Teacher's Pet" podcast has ended with the conviction of Chris Dawson for the murder ...

"The circumstances point persuasively to a conclusion that Mr Dawson decided that he would end his marriage and move on with (JC)," Harrison said. JC said Dawson would sing "cruel songs" to his wife, and they would have sex when Lynette was in the shower or had fallen asleep. The charge of murder in this trial is unsupported by direct evidence," he said. The Crown's case contended that he was "not prepared to waste any time before installing her in his home." Dawson was also giving her driving lessons, and one day while they were in the car, he professed his love and kissed her. By the time she left school, they were in a sexual relationship and he had become infatuated with her, the court heard.

This morning, after a nine week long trial, NSW Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison handed down a guilty verdict to Chris Dawson at the NSW Supreme Court after ...

In September of that year, NSW Police dug up the Bayview property, but did not find a body. The Crown ultimately argued that Chris operated on three motives: a deep animosity for his wife, an overwhelming desire to be with Joanne and a drive to avoid financial complications involved with divorce. They relied on five sightings in the two years after Lynette vanished by people who knew her, including the Dawson’s former neighbours, Mr Dawson’s brother-in-law and family friends.

It's highly unusual for a journalist to pursue someone he thinks has been involved in foul play by publishing a popular podcast. But the trial verdict will ...

But it’s highly unusual for a journalist to pursue someone he thinks has been involved in foul play, and to do so by publishing a popular podcast that presents a particular view of the facts in dispute. While such a conversation is not damning of a prosecution case, it can be frowned upon for police to engage in familial interviews with persons who have had no direct evidence of the matters at hand and who have formed their own conclusions concerning guilt and innocence. The fearless case mounted by Stewart Cockburn in publishing a series of articles in May 1981 led to a Royal Commission and, finally, Splatt’s exoneration after he had spent more than six years behind bars. It reached an estimated audience of [60 million listeners](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-27/chris-dawson-murder-trial-teachers-pet-hedley-thomas/101186612) in which Thomas presented evidence that he maintained pointed clearly to Dawson’s guilt. Dawson’s defence counsel, Pauline David, argued, to the contrary, that there was no weapon, and nor was there any forensic or scientific evidence of any murder. After an acrimonious divorce, JC went to police and said she believed her former husband had murdered Lynette. Thus he found Dawson guilty of her murder. As he and his editors knew, the podcast would stray perilously close to being so prejudicial as to prevent the trial ever proceeding. Notwithstanding, Dawson’s defence team attempted, unsuccessfully as it turned out, to get a permanent “stay of proceedings” (meaning the prosecution is halted in its tracks) on the basis that the podcast was so prejudicial that their client would not be able to get a fair trial. [without the benefit of a jury](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-02/chris-dawson-to-face-judge-alone-murder-trial/101031408) because of a perception that the publicity in the lead up to Dawson being charged was so prejudicial that a jury could not have been able to exercise their fact-finding without bias. The podcast was taken offline in 2019 to avoid prejudicing the trial and influencing potential prosecution witnesses. The prosecution case was that Dawson murdered Lynette so he could have an “unfettered” relationship with JC whom he had met when she was a year 11 student.

The conclusion to a 40 year mystery.

Come back to Sydney and help me look after the children and be with me," Dawson said to JC over the phone before he drove up from Sydney to collect her. This led the judge to completely reject the proposition she had abandoned the home with only the clothes on her back. "Lyn's gone. "I am left in no doubt. "The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Lynette Dawson is dead, that she died on or about 8 January 1982 and that she did not voluntarily abandon her home," he judge said. Advertisement