A former babysitter has informed a Sydney court docket she noticed Chris Dawson being violent, together with a time when he grabbed his spouse Lynette and slammed her right into a doorframe at their northern seashores house.
Giving proof at Dawson’s homicide trial on Thursday, the witness – known as BM – stated that in 1980 she noticed Dawson seize his spouse by the arm and swing her into their daughters’ bed room.
“Lynette was additionally like a rag doll as a result of he was lots greater and as he grabbed her and swung her, she really collected the doorframe along with her shoulder and probably her head,” BM informed the NSW supreme court docket.
BM was a scholar at the highschool the place Dawson labored as a trainer. She was the Dawsons’ babysitter till the tip of 1980 when she completed her HSC and was changed by a youthful scholar, JC, who finally married Dawson in 1984.
Dawson, 73, is accused of killing his spouse and disposing of her physique in January 1982 so he might have an unfettered relationship with JC. He has pleaded not responsible to the cost.
BM informed the court docket that Dawson additionally flicked his spouse throughout her again with a tea towel after discovering a grimy glass within the kitchen. One other time he had tossed a neat pile of garments on to their mattress after seeing one merchandise had not been ironed correctly, she stated.
She informed the court docket that whereas she had been assured by Dawson the connection along with his spouse was excellent, she grew to become disillusioned with the claims after seeing what occurred within the house.
Dawson had prompt that JC step in as a substitute babysitter after changing into indignant that BM was not accessible, the court docket heard.
“I used to be so upset by what I’d seen that I didn’t really wish to return in there,” BM stated.
One other witness, Roslyn McLoughlin, stated on Thursday that she noticed Lynette Dawson with bruises on her leg and arms throughout one in all their common tennis classes simply earlier than Christmas 1981.
“She had a big most likely grapefruit-sized bruise on her thigh … she had some bruises on her arms,” she stated.
Lynette Dawson was fairly distressed and had begged McLoughlin to return house along with her, Justice Ian Harrison was informed.
McLoughlin stated she felt dangerous about not going again to the Dawsons’ house in Bayview, Sydney, on the time. McLoughlin stated she had not requested in regards to the bruising as a result of within the Nineteen Eighties home violence was not mentioned.
Nonetheless, she admitted underneath cross-examination by Dawson’s barrister Pauline David that she didn't know what precisely brought on the accidents.
Earlier this week, one other witness, Annette Leary, stated she had seen bruises on Lynette Dawson’s neck a couple of days earlier than her disappearance. The 2 girls labored collectively on the Warriewood Kids’s Centre.
On Thursday, McLoughlin questioned claims that Lynette Dawson had merely left her two younger daughters alone within the household house when she vanished in 1982.
“She wouldn't have left, leaving her youngsters behind. If she was going to go away, she would have taken these ladies,” she stated.
The judge-alone listening to continues.
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