Allegations that Christopher Michael Dawson killed his spouse with out leaving a hint whereas leaving all her belongings at house have been described as nonsensical by his barrister.
Through the defence’s closing submissions at Dawson’s homicide trial on Wednesday, barrister Pauline David mentioned it might have been extraordinary if her shopper deliberate to kill Lynette Dawson and eliminate her physique whereas forgetting to at the very least pack a suitcase of her garments to make it appear to be she had left.
“If he has the capability to not solely kill her ... and eliminate the physique in a really brief time frame, it appears nonsensical that one would go away all her garments intact,” David informed the NSW supreme courtroom.
Dawson, now 73, was an trustworthy man who had stored his spouse’s belongings of their Bayview, Sydney house precisely as she had left them when she walked out in January 1982, the courtroom heard.
Dawson is accused of murdering his spouse as a result of she was an impediment to his sexual relationship together with his former scholar and babysitter, often called JC.
He has pleaded not responsible to the cost and denies any involvement in Lynette Dawson’s disappearance.
Lynette Dawson deserted the house however left her two daughters along with her husband, realizing they'd be taken care of, David informed the courtroom.
“She knew that that they had a loving father, a very good house, there was monetary safety, and [they were] surrounded by a really loving household on each side.”
Lynette Dawson was alive till at the very least 1984 when a remaining sighting of her was made working as a nurse at Rockcastle hospital within the Sydney suburb of Curl Curl by former neighbours Jill and Peter Breese, David mentioned.
Justice Ian Harrison questioned her about this alleged sighting, asking why Lynette Dawson would take up work at a hospital a “stone’s throw” from the place she beforehand lived if she wished to vanish and begin a brand new life.
“It's a curious factor for somebody along with her putative want to keep away from everybody to reveal herself to an employment place within the very space the place she’s almost definitely to be recognized,” the decide mentioned.
David argued that Lynette Dawson may have been there in a brief function as an company nurse and that she could have thought the possibilities of assembly anybody she knew on the hospital had been low.
Sightings by the Breeses and by Sue Butlin, who claims she noticed Lynette Dawson at a fruit stall in Kulnura, north of Sydney, had by no means been correctly investigated by the police.
Regardless of that, these sightings needs to be accepted as a result of they had been made by individuals accustomed to Lynette Dawson and never strangers, the barrister added.
Harrison additionally grappled with the truth that just one particular person had come ahead with a sighting of Lynette Dawson in recent times regardless of what he known as an avalanche of publicity in regards to the case.
“The inference that appears to come up … is that you simply needed to be very unobservant to not have your consideration drawn to the truth that Lynette Dawson is lacking,” he mentioned.
David identified that sure individuals could not have been excited about true crime tales and that Lynette Dawson would now look very completely different if she was nonetheless alive as a 72-year previous lady.
The barrister advised proof of life checks and lacking particular person stories by the police which confirmed Lynette Dawson was now not alive had been unreliable and had used the wrong date of start, center identify, and hair and pores and skin color.
Again within the Eighties, somebody may extra simply change their identify and id with out the identical digital footprint as right this moment, David informed the courtroom.
The trial continues.
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