The Teacher’s Pet gripped the nation and now the only first-hand account of the story,told through the eyes of the schoolgirl Dawson pursued,is being published.
The family of the 33-year-old,who was killed in Sydney in January 1982,want to do away with references to her marital name linking her to a man who “discarded her”.
The 74-year-old has been sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court today for the murder of his wife Lynette in 1982. Her body has never been found.
The 74-year-old was sentenced in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday more than 40 years after his first wife vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches.
Justice Ian Harrison will on Friday sentence the 74-year-old for the murder of his first wife Lynette Dawson,who vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches in 1982.
Lynette Dawson’s elder daughter,sister and brother have delivered victim impact statements at Chris Dawson’s sentence hearing for her murder in January 1982.
Shanelle Dawson,the daughter of convicted murderer Chris Dawson,has spoken about what she saw on the night of Lynette Dawson’s disappearance.
Experts warn the “no body,no parole” law may result in little more than false hope for families.
The NSW government will move to strengthen laws around parole for convicted murders who do not reveal the location of the remains their victim.
Lynette Dawson’s mother asked that her diaries be destroyed when she died. She had no way of knowing how critical they would become 20 years later.
Chris Dawson appeared in person in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday,wearing his prison-issue dark green tracksuit as a sentence hearing date was set.