The Australian's investigative journalist Hedley Thomas says Lynette Dawson's story struck him as unjust,and he became"obsessive about it".
Lynette Dawson's brother Greg Simms and his wife Merilyn speak outside the NSW Supreme Court after Justice Ian Harrison found Chris Dawson 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’s barrister says the defence doesn’t know what happened to Lynette Dawson after she allegedly abandoned her home in 1982 and was reportedly seen up to 1984.
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.
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.