Host of The Teacher’s Pet podcast Hedley Thomas says there is no guarantee cold cases will go to trial “in the absence of journalistic scrutiny”.
Dawson’s solicitor Greg Walsh,who is considering applying for bail after his client was convicted of murder and handcuffed,said the 74-year-old has dementia.
Chris Dawson made several attempts to move in with his teenage lover. When they failed,he killed his wife Lynette.
Lynette Dawson’s family has issued a plea for Chris Dawson to reveal the location of her body,after a judge found him guilty of her murder in January 1982.
The judge delivered his verdict in Dawson’s high-profile case on Tuesday,convicting the 74-year-old former Sydney teacher and Newtown Jets player of murder.
Justice Ian Harrison will decide whether Chris Dawson is guilty of murdering his wife Lynette Dawson,who vanished in 1982.
In a fourth day of closing submissions,Chris Dawson’s barrister said a man could love two women at once,and her client didn’t suddenly stop caring about his wife.
Chris Dawson tried to get out of his marriage and have a relationship with the babysitter before “ultimately deciding” to murder his wife,a prosecutor alleges.
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.
Chris Dawson’s murder trial has heard a call he made to his brother after Hedley Thomas,the journalist behind The Teacher’s Pet podcast,appeared on TV in 2018.