Former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson blasted investigative journalist Hedley Thomas in a taped phone call played in court,claiming the reporter positioned himself as “prosecutor,judge and jury”.
The phone tap was played on Wednesday afternoon in the NSW Supreme Court,where Dawson,73,is on trial for murdering his first wife,Lynette Dawson,who vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches in January 1982. He was arrested and charged in December 2018 and has pleaded not guilty.
Chris Dawson called twin Paul Dawson at 9.13pm on September 9,2018,after Thomas appeared that night in an episode of Nine’s60 Minutesabout the cold case,during which he described Dawson as a “despicable person”,“severely narcissistic” and “dangerous”.
Thomas is behindThe Australian’s Walkley Award-winning podcastThe Teacher’s Pet,released in May 2018,about Dawson,Lynette and the couple’s babysitter,known as JC.
In the phone call,Chris said Thomas had “set himself up as a prosecutor,judge and jury”.
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