Chris Dawson’s spouse Lynette was seen with bruises round her throat three days earlier than she disappeared in 1982, a Sydney courtroom has been instructed.
Annette Leary gave proof in Dawson’s homicide trial on Monday saying she had seen Lynette Dawson with the bruises on the Sydney youngsters’s centre the place they each labored.
Leary instructed the NSW supreme courtroom that Lynette Dawson instructed her she had steered marriage counselling in January 1982 after the couple skilled marital difficulties.
Dawson was not happy with the suggestion and allegedly bodily assaulted Lynette Dawson within the elevate after the counselling session, Leary mentioned she was instructed by her colleague.
“Chris had gripped her throat and shook her slightly and mentioned ‘If this doesn’t work, I’m eliminating you, I’m solely doing it as soon as,’” Leary instructed the courtroom.
Leary noticed the bruises on a Friday in January 1982. Lynette Dawson didn't attend work the next Monday, the courtroom heard.
Dawson, 73, is accused of killing his spouse and disposing of her physique in January 1982 as a result of he needed to pursue a relationship with one in all his highschool college students, referred to as JC. He has pleaded not responsible.
Warriewood Kids’s Centre supervisor Barbara Cruise additionally gave proof on Monday. Whereas she couldn't bear in mind seeing Lynette Dawson with bruises, she mentioned the couple had skilled marital strife on the time.
Cruise mentioned that regardless of worrying about Dawson’s option to let JC transfer into their residence, Lynette Dawson ultimately consented.
“I believed she was pretty naive about it,” Cruise mentioned.
On 11 January 1982, when she didn't arrive at work, Cruise mentioned Dawson claimed over the telephone that his spouse had gone away and he didn't know when she would return.
JC additionally testified on Monday, admitting she had requested writer Rebecca Hazel to rush up and end her ebook about Lynette Dawson’s disappearance so they may make some cash, however JC added she could have mentioned that as a joke.
“We joked about issues like that on a regular basis,” JC instructed the courtroom.
JC mentioned that, though she had been approached about making a living from her story by numerous people, she had not achieved something about it.
JC and Dawson married in 1984 and separated in 1990.
Dawson’s barrister Pauline David accused JC of mendacity about her former husband in 1990 due to an acrimonious break-up.
David claimed JC had lied about Dawson speaking together with his brother about what would occur to the household residence and who would get what if he left his spouse. The barrister additionally alleged that JC lied about insurance coverage taken out on the time, with the intention to heighten suspicions about her shopper.
JC rejected these allegations on Monday.
The courtroom was taken to JC’s earlier police statements which assorted from her present model of occasions round Lynette Dawson’s disappearance.
Particulars of an incident when Dawson allegedly thought of hiring a hitman to do away with his spouse had modified from JC’s first police assertion in 1990 to a different assertion given in 1998, David mentioned.
Claims of Dawson’s repeated violence in the direction of JC, together with an incident the place he allegedly ripped off her g-string, had been additionally not included in her prior affidavits, the courtroom heard.
David mentioned Dawson had, actually, solely been violent to JC as soon as whereas they had been at a Sizzler restaurant.
“Throughout that incident, there was a scenario the place Mr Dawson grabbed your wrist,” she requested. “Sure,” JC replied.
David referred to letters written by Dawson to JC whereas the pair was breaking apart in 1990. On the time, he was residing on the Gold Coast and he or she was in Sydney.
“[JC] you're a good, stunning particular person. You might have a lot to present those that love you. In case you ever need my help or assist, the place I'm. There's a home full of affection up right here for you,” Dawson wrote.
JC described these letters as lies to get her to return to the abuse and “prison-like state” wherein she lived beforehand.
The judge-alone trial continues on Tuesday.
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