Chris Dawson didn't have a “relationship” with the college woman he ultimately married however slightly allegedly molested the coed when he was her instructor, his homicide trial has been advised.
A good friend of the woman generally known as JC rejected claims by Dawson’s solicitor Greg Walsh that his consumer and the then teenager had a relationship in 1980 and 1981 earlier than JC had graduated.
“It wasn’t a relationship. It was molestation … I object to it being referred to as a relationship,” the good friend, generally known as KL, advised the court docket on Wednesday.
KL mentioned whereas she was a pupil, she felt JC and Dawson’s interactions have been bizarre and upsetting.
“Didn’t college students, to your data, get crushes on lecturers?” Walsh requested.
“No, lecturers preyed on college students,” KL replied.
She described Dawson as flirtatious and useless and mentioned JC would typically be seen standing within the doorway of his workplace on the faculty.
Dawson, 73, is accused of murdering his first spouse, Lynette Dawson, and disposing of her physique in January 1982 so he may have an unfettered relationship with JC, who's now 58. He has pleaded not responsible to the cost.
On Wednesday, KL mentioned she believed Dawson was responsible of both murdering his spouse or arranging it.
In a police interview from January 1991 performed to the court docket, Dawson mentioned his spouse left their Bayview dwelling in Sydney’s northern seashores and rang him 3 times in early 1982 saying she wanted time to assume issues by way of after the couple skilled marital points.
Dawson advised police that a spiritual sect had requested his spouse to affix them earlier than her disappearance. He additionally mentioned that in a 1985 highschool reunion, he had heard she had moved to New Zealand.
Walsh referred to diary entries by Lynette Dawson’s mom, Helena Simms, from Might 1982 saying her daughter had been sighted at a buying centre in Narraweena within the northern seashores.
Robyn Warren, considered one of Lynette Dawson’s pals, mentioned Dawson had referred to as in mid-January 1982 asking if his spouse was along with her. He claimed she had left the home that morning to change some garments in Chatswood however had failed to satisfy him at Northbridge Baths the place he labored as a lifeguard.
Warren mentioned Lynette Dawson was involved about her husband’s choice to maneuver JC into their dwelling in late 1981. Lynette Dawson was additionally upset after discovering JC sitting in her husband’s lap throughout a recreation of “stacks on the mill” whereas babysitting, the court docket heard.
Warren mentioned she had by no means seen Dawson assault or insult his spouse, saying that he was at all times affectionate and respectful in direction of her.
Earlier on Wednesday, KL described a time when Dawson drove from Sydney to South West Rocks to choose up JC in January 1982 whereas the chums have been having a tenting journey. On seeing Dawson unexpectedly, JC cringed, KL mentioned.
She mentioned that in a Sydney automotive trip after JC and Dawson broke up in 1990, JC mentioned she believed her former husband had paid in money for a hitman to kill his spouse.
JC had described Dawson parking his automotive someplace, taking a brown paper bag out of the glovebox and coming into a constructing.
“She mentioned she felt it was cash to pay somebody to kill Lyn or who had killed Lyn,” KL mentioned.
JC has beforehand advised the court docket that on that automotive journey, Dawson didn't truly rent the hitman however modified his thoughts as a result of harmless folks might be damage or killed.
JC’s youthful sister gave proof on Wednesday, and claimed she had been teased whereas in highschool due to JC’s relationship with Dawson.
She mentioned different college students had taunted her by singing “younger instructor, the topic of college woman fantasy” – lyrics from the 1980 hit music by The Police, Don’t Stand So Near Me.
JC’s sister mentioned the taunts made her cringe and really feel embarrassed, the court docket heard.
The NSW supreme court docket trial continues on Thursday.
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