Former police commissioner Mick Fuller’s involvement in the Teacher’s Pet podcast raises crucial questions about the application of justice,a judge has found.
Former neighbour Peter Breese testified that he and his wife saw Lynette Dawson in a Sydney hospital in June 1984,unaware that she was missing.
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.
The former teacher has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his first wife Lynette Dawson,who vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches in January 1982.
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.
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.
In an interview about his missing first wife,Chris Dawson told officers she had called him several times in January 1982 and didn’t know when she would return.
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.
Lynette Dawson’s former boss at Warriewood Children’s Centre in 1982,Barbara Cruise,leaves the NSW Supreme Court on Monday,May 23,2022 after giving evidence at the murder trial of Chris Dawson.