In the lead-up to Christmas 1981,Lynette Dawson was seen with bruises on her arms and thigh and seemed distressed,the NSW Supreme Court has heard.
Anna Grantham has told a court Lynette Dawson once spoke of a fight with her husband,Chris,during which he allegedly grabbed her head and she couldn’t breathe.
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.
Lynette Dawson’s sister-in-law said that in the months before the 33-year-old disappeared from Sydney’s northern beaches,she described her husband as evasive and angry.
Lynette Dawson told her sister in the weeks before she disappeared in January 1982 that her husband Chris was always angry with her,a court has heard.
Patricia Jenkins has told the NSW Supreme Court her sister Lynette Dawson would speak about her husband Chris’ relationship with a teenage babysitter.
The former Newtown Jets footballer has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife Lynette in Sydney’s northern beaches in the 1980s. He will face trial next week.
Chris Dawson’s lawyers told the NSW Supreme Court on Tuesday they would apply for his murder trial next month to be heard by a judge alone.
Mr Dawson,who is accused of murdering his wife,Lynette,was refused a permanent stay in the Supreme Court last year. On Friday,the Court of Criminal Appeal upheld this decision.
Former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson has been committed to stand trial in the NSW Supreme Court for the murder of his wife,Lynette,almost 40 years ago.
A neighbour of the alleged murder victim,said he was recovering from an operation when she came to the door of his room:"I looked at her,she looked at me."