The Crown prosecutor has delivered a closing address at the trial of former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson,accused of murdering his wife Lynette in January 1982.
The Crown case has closed at Chris Dawson’s murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court,which was played tapped calls and parts of a TV show about twins from 1975.
Hedley Thomas has faced a second day of cross-examination at Chris Dawson’s murder trial about conversations with witnesses for his podcast,The Teacher’s Pet.
Rebecca Hazel has given evidence in the NSW Supreme Court about an unpublished book she wrote after meeting Chris Dawson’s babysitter and second wife,JC.
A former neighbour’s statement has been included as evidence at Chris Dawson’s murder trial,recounting an alleged incident after his second daughter was born.
A woman has given evidence at the Sydney murder trial of Chris Dawson that he told her in 2007 his wife had left him and their daughters for the Blue Mountains.
In a police interview,played to the court,Chris Dawson said his second wife JC had made allegations about his first wife’s disappearance to “slur” his character.
The babysitter and woman who eventually married Christopher Dawson threatened his first wife Lynette and had reason to see her killed,a judge has heard.
Marilyn Dawson said she was unhappy about allowing her brother-in-law and the teen to stay at their place on Christmas Day but reluctantly gave them permission.
The court was told about an alleged visit to a pub in the early 1980s where Chris Dawson handed over an envelope to a man a few days before Lynette disappeared.
Decades after she disappeared,the 33-year-old’s loved ones have spoken of a woman who adored her two girls,and of the babysitter brought into her Bayview home.