Lynette Dawson decided to go away dwelling in 1982 with out taking any belongings to make it look like her husband had killed her, a court docket has been instructed.
Giving proof in Chris Dawson’s Sydney homicide trial on Monday, Paul Cooper mentioned he had met a lady he was certain was Lynette Dawson early in 1982 at a pub in Warners Bay, on Lake Macquarie. Chris Dawson has pleaded not responsible to the alleged homicide.
Cooper claimed to have struck up a dialog with the girl, who mentioned she had left her husband and kids and was working up the braveness to see her sister.
Telling the girl that the police may assume she had been killed by her husband as a result of she had left all her belongings, Cooper mentioned he was shocked by the response.
“After I appeared again at her, she had a special manner at the moment and it shocked me as a result of I believed that may have been the intent,” he instructed Justice Ian Harrison.
Cooper claimed the girl was ready for a passport and was planning to fly first to Bali after which on to a different abroad nation. She allegedly requested Cooper to ebook a motel for her as a result of she had no identification.
After seeing a report on Lynette Dawson on the tv program A Present Affair three years in the past, Cooper mentioned he contacted Chris Dawson’s lawyer, Greg Walsh. He instructed the court docket he didn't contact the police, fearing they might be biased.
Beneath cross-examination by crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC, Cooper admitted that he had frolicked in jail for medicine, armed theft, theft, and break and enter.
He couldn't bear in mind if he had requested the girl’s title on the day, and mentioned he was certain she was not carrying glasses on the time.
Regardless of Cooper claiming the girl mentioned her sister lived close to Warners Bay, Everson identified that Lynette Dawson’s precise sister, Pat Jenkins, lived a three-and-a-half hour drive away, within the city of Stuarts Level.
Additionally on Monday, Justice Harrison dismissed proof that Dawson sought out somebody to eliminate his spouse seven years earlier than she vanished.
Final month, Robert Silkman claimed Dawson approached him on a flight from the Gold Coast to Sydney to ask if he knew somebody who may eliminate Lynette Dawson.
Silkman’s proof was put ahead to indicate that Dawson had particular tendencies that pointed to the homicide of his spouse.
Dawson’s authorized crew attacked Silkman’s credibility, stating that he had regularly lied to police and the courts, and had frolicked in jail for theft and arson.
His proof was rejected, alongside testimony of three different witnesses: Judith Solomon, Roslyn McLoughlin and one recognized solely as KF, who claimed they noticed Lynette Dawson with black eyes or bruises earlier than she disappeared in January 1982.
This proof didn't have vital probative worth, the decide mentioned.
The trial continues.
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