The babysitter and girl who ultimately married Chris Dawson had a motive to see Lynette Dawson useless, Dawson’s brother has instructed a courtroom.
Within the ongoing homicide trial towards Chris Dawson, 73, an intercepted telephone name between himself and his twin brother, Paul, from March 1999 was performed to the courtroom.
In that decision, Paul Dawson is heard saying that the babysitter, identified solely as JC, had extra motive to kill Chris’s spouse, Lynette, who disappeared in January 1982.
“If Lyn had been murdered, [JC] had the motive. [JC] had extra to realize and [JC] did acquire greater than Chris ever gained from their relationship,” Paul Dawson instructed the NSW supreme courtroom on Thursday.
Chris Dawson has been accused of murdering 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 and claims Lynette Dawson left residence on the time on account of marital points and by no means returned.
JC and Chris Dawson married in 1984 and separated in 1990.
Police claims that Chris Dawson had something to do with the alleged homicide of his spouse had been preposterous, Paul Dawson stated.
“You’re not the kind of individual to do that. Anyone who is aware of you is aware of that,” Paul was heard telling his brother in 1999.
Media stories that his brother was violent had been outrageous as a result of he was the least violent individual he’d ever met, Paul Dawson stated.
JC’s description of the Gold Coast residence she lived in after marrying Dawson as a “compound” was laughable, he stated.
Paul Dawson stated he didn’t query Lynette Dawson taking a while away from the wedding as a result of his brother had executed the identical in December 1981, when he had pushed north in direction of Queensland with JC.
After his spouse disappeared, Chris Dawson drove as much as the Central Coast a number of instances to search for her, the courtroom heard.
Paul Dawson acknowledged he was not in favour of his brother’s relationship with JC after they first began relationship in late 1981.
JC has beforehand testified that Dawson’s behaviour as her highschool instructor in 1980, when she was 16, was inappropriate, claiming he singled her out with consideration and brushed up towards her within the classroom.
“He groomed me and abused me and insisted that I marry him,” she instructed the courtroom.
Paul Dawson’s babysitter from 1980 and 1981 additionally gave proof on Thursday. The lady, who can solely be known as SO, claimed that in automotive journeys in Sydney she heard Chris Dawson check with his spouse as a bitch and say she needed to go.
She stated that in one other automotive journey with the Dawson twins and JC, Dawson obtained out of the automotive, handed a bundle to a person outdoors a constructing, and returned saying that one thing had been “taken care of”.
JC instructed the courtroom final month that Dawson had tried to rent a hitman to kill his spouse however had modified his thoughts. In her model, solely Dawson and JC had been within the car.
On the finish of 1981 or the start of 1982, SO claimed Paul Dawson had instructed her that his household would want to urgently transfer to Queensland.
“He stated he was shifting and one thing horrible had occurred and he wanted to depart as quickly as potential,” she instructed the courtroom.
When Dawson’s barrister Pauline David identified the Dawsons had solely moved to the Gold Coast in 1984, SO stated they'd been in a position to wait as a result of nothing occurred, regardless of police trying into Lynette Dawson’s disappearance.
The trial continues.
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