Speaking from the witness box, JC claimed she drove with Dawson to a building somewhere south of the Sydney Harbour Bridge where he tried to hire a hitman to get rid of his wife. Left: Lyn with Chris Dawson, aged 17, before their High School dance of 1965. Their relationship became sexual, and Chris employed the girl as a babysitter for his two daughters. Mr Whealy joined thousands of others to watch the verdict read out via a live stream of the court proceedings to provide comments to ABC's Australian Story. "I suppose you could say I was in shock at the information she'd told us," Greg said. Former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC told ABC, the evidence simply wasnt strong enough. She would even wear Lyns jewellery and her clothes. For more than a month, Curtis lived in the Dawson family home with Chris and his two young daughters (before long there would be three, the youngest mothered by Curtis herself). Although overwhelmed by the magnitude of what has just transpired, Greg and Merilyn's presence at Clovelly Beach still creates a bright splash against the otherwise muted landscape. They have also argued that because these events happened four decades ago and memories have faded over time, the testimony given now is not an accurate portrayal of what happened. Christopher Dawson has been found guilty of murdering his former wife four decades ago on Sydney's northern beaches. The comments below have been moderated in advance. So while it's just and right that Chris Dawson's long-held secret was forced into the light today, Shanelle and Sherryn still lose. It is almost 20 years since ABC's Australian Story first spoke to the family and friends of former nurse and childcare worker Lyn Dawson, a much-loved mother-of-two who vanished from her home on Sydney's northern beaches in suspicious circumstances in January 1982. At the first inquest held in February 2001, the Deputy State Coroner Jan Stevenson determined that Lynette had been murdered and that her killer was someone she knew. The affair continued for approximately a year and reached its pinnacle when Curtis moved into the Dawson family home on January 11, 1982 just two days after Lynette Dawson went missing. 18:44 EST 14 Jun 2022. Helena was there. My emotions and my love for my dad aside, I can see that there a lot of people saying all those things, its not just one person, she said. "His reliance on his lies it was just expanding all the time. Lynette Dawsons last known conversation was with her mother. "Who can describe it? [4] Chris was arrested in Queensland in December 2018, extradited to New South Wales, and charged with the murder of his first wife. According to ACA former students allege there was group of at least six teachers who slept with teenage girls. There was always something ahead with Lyn's case but now there's nothing else to wait for. They were everything to her. Meanwhile, more than 36 years after Ms Dawson mysteriously vanished, the man who decided not to prosecute Mr Dawson on two occasions for her death has revealed why he didnt lay charges. I pray Rishi Sunak succeeds so as HENRY DEEDES: Wowee was he pumped! It's an impossible place to be; this place where seeing justice served for a member of your family means losing another, when you have already lost so much already. THERE was a culture of male teachers trying to have sex with female students at a school where the husband of suspected murder victim Lyn Dawson worked, a former student says. Forget turnipsnow eat SQUIRREL! Harrison said that while it was often immaterial when a particular offence occurred, in this case it was an indispensable link in the chain of reasoning upon which the Crown relies. There is huge conflict in that. [21][23], On December 2, 2022, Dawson was sentenced to 24 years in jail, with a non-parole period of 18 years, for the murder of Lynette.[24]. Prior to her days working in childcare, Lyn was a nurse at the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital (now known as the Sydney Children's Hospital at Westmead). YouTubeChris Dawson and his twin brother Paul posing for a Levis ad. Engagements. In a marathon five-hour hearing, Justice Harrison laid out in painstaking detail the evidence persuading him that the 74-year-old former rugby league star and high school teacher had killed Lynette in January 1982 to have "unfettered" access to his teen lover, known to the court as JC. There were gasps in the courtroom the moment the verdict was handed down - following some 4.5 hours of the judge reading out his reasons - with Dawson shaking his head very slightly and his twin brother Paul muttering 'bulls***'. January 1982 - Lynette "Lyn" Dawson, 33, disappears from her home at Bayview on Sydney's northern beaches, leaving behind two young daughters. [11][12] He was granted bail,[13] and in June 2019 pleaded not guilty to her murder. He turned her young daughters memories against her - tarring her as a cowardly, unloving mother who just "went away". The next news came from Chris as he spun the first silk in a web of lies torn down this week. Mr Dawson claimed that while watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow from 2006, he saw a woman who he believed to be Lyn. They've grown up with his version of the story of their mother - that she walked out on them, without a word. And then they took him towards the doors at the back of the dock.". Australian Story first covered the story of Lyn Dawson nearly 20 years ago. Her husband Chris Dawson was suspected of killing. Her father and new stepmother never shared stories about Lyn, saying it was like the day she left she ceased to exist. He can understand why Lyn's supporters felt jitters as the judge struck out large swathes of the prosecution's argument, including witness evidence that Chris Dawson had been violent towards Lyn during their marriage. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Missed birthdays and anniversaries. The court has also heard Dawson allegedly threatened a high school student who asked JC out, and had told conflicting stories about his wife's whereabouts after her disappearance. Chris Dawson's daughter Kristen, who was born to his young lover Joanne Curtis three years after his wife disappeared, has spoken about the effect on her family of her father's arrest. Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia, 'I couldn't breathe, he could have killed me': Friend tells murder trial Lyn Dawson's exact words after she allegedly had her face pushed in mud during FIGHT which made her fear for her LIFE, How Lynette Dawson had a 'grapefruit-sized bruise on thigh' weeks before alleged murder - as another babysitter describes accused's furious outbursts if their home wasn't kept PERFECT. Lynette Joy Dawson (born 1948) was an Australian missing person who disappeared on 9 January 1982, leaving two daughters and her husband, former rugby league footballer Chris Dawson. It was the last time Helena spoke to her 33-year-old daughter. . Chris later claimed he dropped her off at a bus stop in Mona Vale, and that she called him later in the day saying she needed time to herself. "We did it, Lyn," whispers Greg. In the four decades following the strange disappearance of Lynette Dawson, several smaller investigations into the case have taken place. Lyn Dawson with daughter Shanelle Shanelle, who was four years old at her mother's disappearance time, is now a married lady in her 40s in 2022. When JC tried to leave him, Dawson became so "distressed, frustrated and ultimately overwhelmed" that he resolved to kill his wife to get her out of the picture. [2] On 30 August 2022, Chris Dawson was convicted of Lynette's murder[3] and sentenced to 24years in prison. YouTubeLynette Dawson and her husband, Chris, shortly before their marriage. See for yourself by trying this new quiz devised by cardiologists Kate flies the flag! Her siblings believe the police took Lyn's disappearance more seriously after that. By When Justice Harrison finally pronounced the "guilty" verdict in court last week, Greg couldn't quite believe it was all over. The mother-of-two disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1982. The couple moved to Queensland and had a daughter in 1986. Walsh also suggested his client would appeal Tuesdays verdict. Though the likelihood of a doting mother simply leaving her two young daughters behind out of the blue was incredibly low, Chris defense team maintained that this wasnt that far-fetched. [20] The defence relied on a number of witnesses who claimed to have seen Lynette since her disappearance. [20] The defence acknowledge Dawson may have "failed" his wife but that she "left and abandoned" the family of her own accord, and suggested she may have created a new life. And while the podcast brought their mother's case out from the cold, it also brought with it all the heat of public scrutiny, innuendo, gossip, amateur sleuthing and morbid interest from the ferocious appetite of true crime. Or maybe you will, for just a second. She said after each visit, the daughter would cower from her mother and 'cling to me like a koala'. Either way, now you'll likely go about your day. Clothed in pink, Lyn's favourite colour, they place a bouquet of pink flowers on a bench near the ocean, situated less than 100 metres from the Simms family home where Lyn, Greg and their siblings Patand Philip spent their carefree childhood years. But with no body or definitive proof of her death, the case was seen as something of a legal quandary. How A Podcast May Have Solved The Lynette Dawson Disappearance 36 Years Later. He claimed to have dropped Lyn off at a Mona Vale bus stop on January 9 before she called him at the Northbridge Baths about 3pm to say she needed time away. JC contacted him out of the blue. Harrison has spent the time since deliberating on his verdict. That makes it very weak, he said. The court heard another friend, whose family built Dreamworld and met JC on the Gold Coast, said JC 'said to me should anything happen to her I was to go to the police. Ups and downs have been a constant companion during the family's decades-long search for answers about what happened to Lyn. Today her name has been cleared she loved her family and would have never left them of her own accord. Looking for Lyn: With Joanne Curtis, Damian Loone. A second inquest, held in February 2003 by State Coroner Carl Milovanovich, recommended Chris be charged with Lynette's murder. "That door closing was so final," adds Merilyn. Lyn did not leave her family, her friends or her daughters and was in fact murdered by the one person she trusted most. She can leave whenever she likes," says her sister, Pat. He had told her Lyns gone, shes not coming back, come back to Sydney and help look after the kids and live with me. He was a teacher in the local community. And then there were Dawson's lies. Forty years is not possible to re-live. Outside court, Lynettes brother, Greg Simms, called on Dawson to reveal where her body was buried. "And the suspicions I'd had in relation to not seeing my sister again had come to fruition really, and I knew then that I would never see my sister again.". Now millions of people around the world, who were waiting for that all important verdict to come through, are rejoicing on their behalf. 7:11AM November 11, 2022 Until Thursday, we had only seen Shanelle Dawson - daughter of convicted wife killer Chris Dawson - as a happy little child, a carefree innocent spirit in family photographs projected on courtroom screens during her father's murder trial earlier this year. [4] She permanently moved into the residence on 10 January 1982, two days after Lynette's disappearance. Things we all take for granted. Now fully grown adults with families of their own, they've grown up with a constantly spooling nightmare that most of us will never understand. 'I thought she was devastated and mentally not coping. It was a bond that was mirrored between Lyn and her own mother, Helena, whose 66th birthday Lyn was planning when she disappeared. Shanelle is seen with her mother Lyn and father Chris Dawson. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. "There was a big question over it it obviously gave the prosecuting authority pause on a number of occasions.". In a dramatic day on Tuesday, Justice Harrison found Dawson guilty just after 3pm - bringing to a close a mystery that has haunted Lynette's family and Sydney's northern beaches for four decades. For them, this is not a happy ending. In 1981, Joanne, pictured centre, moved in with the Dawsons at Bayview. "We didn't get much sleep, it's hard to try and process the verdict," Greg says. Karen Longhurst said JC had indicated that Dawson had 'taunted' his first wife, saying 'Chris used to wander around the house singing songs (like) "I don't love you any more".'. He spent the night in the cells at Sydney's Surry Hills police centre before being taken to Silverwater prison in western Sydney on Wednesday. This was one of a series of reasons which Harrison gave to dismiss the possibility that Lynette Dawson left of her own accord. In the late 1950s, she went missing for several years. The case had previously exploded into the public spotlight after it was featured in a hit true-crime podcast. For the people who loved her, today's verdict will bring some form of closure. Chris Dawson found guilty of murdering wife Lynette in Sydney 40 years ago The Teacher's Pet: hit podcast thrust Lynette Dawson's 1982 disappearance into the spotlight Get our free news app,. YouTube16-year-old Joanne Curtis, the student who had an affair with Chris Dawson. Mr Dawson has always asserted, and he still does, his absolute innocence of the crime of which hes been convicted, he told reporters outside court. Rishi Sunak looked like he had won the lottery. Two years later, a second, lengthier inquest was held. Dawson, 74, was found guilty of murdering his first wife Lynette Dawson on Tuesday and was sent to Silverwater Jail in Sydney to await sentencing. Dawson's lawyer Greg Walsh on Thursday said the one-time teacher and football star had already received serious death threats from several inmates in Silverwater jail in the short time he'd been there. I really hope they have been able to establish their own families outside this drama to lean on now. Picture: Simms family 5/29. 'We didn't mention my mother. The lies were designed to deflect all or any attention away from Dawsons involvement in the death. The Dawson family did not disclose what the evidence was, but claimed the 70-year-old former PE teacher once wrote to his daughter claiming Lyn was still alive and well and living in the UK. "The picture came from one of the nurses who was working on the ward," Pat explains. The ups and downs from Judge Harrison in his summation," he says. Now, a journalist's podcast may have finally solved the mystery of her disappearance. The podcast, created by investigative reporter Hedley Thomas, was listened to tens of millions of times. More importantly, the podcast achieved the one goal it seemed no one else could; in December, seven months after the podcast was released, Chris Dawson was arrested. Mr Walsh did not make an application for bail on Thursday morning when Dawson appeared before the same court he'd been convicted in, clad in his prison greens. 'I think she was deeply hurt and struggling and I tried to boost her up and say "come on you need to fight".'. Dawson did not give evidence during the two-month trial, which finished on 11 July. His brother Paul followed suit and began teaching alongside Chris, even moving his family closer. And that was the one that broke it.. We just want to find her now and lay her to rest, but we're doubtful that will ever happen. "I think the world is crying," says Merilyn Simms, standing close to her husband Greg. On New Years Day or 2 January 1982, JC travelled north to South West Rocks, where she camped with her sisters and friends. Olivia Newton-Johns daughter has revealed how she keeps her connection to her mother alive months after her tragic passing. Independent Allegra Spender has labelled a regular part of Australian political life as a waste of taxpayers money. After leaving her marriage to Dawson in 1990, JC would stay with Ms Melrose-Mikeska when she brought her daughter with Dawson up for 'visitation rights' stays with him. Dawson applied for and was granted a divorce from Lyn in June 1983 and married Curtis in January 1984 two years after Lyn went missing. In fact, it would be more than a month until an official missing persons report would be filed. The story of Lynette Dawson's disappearance has sparked interest around the world after it was featured on a podcast called 'The Teacher's Pet', produced by The Australian newspaper. "This story has gone worldwide and Lyn would be incredibly humbled by that," Merilyn says. She thought (Dawson's) first wife had been killed". But for the people who loved her - her daughters Shanelle and Sherryn, her sister Pat, her brothers Greg and Phil, her niece Renee, her friends - today's verdict will bring something beyond the satisfying conclusion to an intriguing zeitgeist plot point. 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They already lost their mother. Harrison said that to accept submissions made by lawyers for Dawson that his wife had left the Bayview home of her own accord would be to replace reasonable possibility with frail speculation. The story of Lynette Dawson's disappearance has sparked interest around the world after it was featured on a podcast called 'The Teacher's Pet', produced by The Australian newspaper. Today, your news feed has told you that Chris Dawson has been found guilty of killing his wife, Lynette, on Sydney's northern beaches, 40 years ago. He actually flicked her really, really hard right across the back with the tea towel. And I must say, there's a lot of common sense in that proposition.". [7], After ending their rugby careers, the Dawson brothers found employment as physical education teachers, with Chris working at Cromer High School near Sydney. He found that although Lynette Dawson had confronted JC with the paradoxically genteel observation that JC had been taking liberties with her husband, she had remained hopeful of reconciling with Dawson. 1981: Lyn tells her friend from work, Anna Grantham, that Chris has allegedly been violent towards her, including one occasion where her pulled her hair and shoved her face into the mud next to the pool, leaving her gasping for air. Like the 2001 inquest, this one also recommended laying charges against Chris Dawson. Following his client's conviction, Mr Walsh said that Dawson maintained his innocence and would be appealing the guilty verdict. Its happened before.. It was later discovered that she walked out on her three children and started a new life under a new identity in New Zealand. The pair welcomed two children together, named Lisa Anne and Len Dawson Jr. Lisa Anne was born in 1955, which. "The judge found this quite implausible," MrWhealy says. In January 1982, a small neighborhood in Sydney, Australia was devastated by the disappearance of doting wife and mother Lynette Dawson. Their emotion is palpable and the extent of it is difficult to comprehend. Harrison said the prosecution had to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Lynette Dawson is dead, that she was killed by Dawson with the possible involvement or assistance of others, and that he and possibly others disposed of her body. Lyn Dawson was a devoted young mother with a seemingly perfect marriage to a glamorous, high profile football star and two daughters she adored. A few years later, he divorced Lyn in her absence and married JC. Harrison accepted that Dawson had become infatuated with JC before she left Cromer high school. It seems that the disappearance of Lynette Dawson is finally about to be solved. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Her post was inundated with supportive comments from loved ones, many saying they were thinking of her. Thomas work on the case shot it to the forefront of the publics attention and kickstarted the investigation back into high gear. Today, they have likely lost their father too. In January 1982, a small neighborhood in Sydney, Australia was devastated by the disappearance of doting wife and mother Lynette Dawson. Lyn worked a nurse, and was seen as a kind and gentle soul. Unlike when a jury delivers a verdict, Harrison was also required to outline the reasons for his decision on Tuesday. Ms Longhurst also said JC had been in a rush before Chris had come home to make sure there was Coca Cola in the frig, because one time someone had drunk it and he had gone 'nuts'. The second time I saw him being extremely violent towards her near the bedroom door and that just shattered me. Because for them, Lynette is more than a mystery to be solved, more than a smiling face in an old photograph. He did lose his temper quite quickly. [8] In 1981, Chris groomed and slept with Cromer student Joanne Curtis, who temporarily moved into the Dawson family residence in Bayview at Chris' invitation. "If we ever find Lyn, I believe that she deserves to have her ashes scattered off here at Clovelly with Mum and Dad," Greg says. It's a bleak afternoon at Clovelly Beach in Sydney's eastern suburbs, the sky is a screen of opaque grey, and the drizzling rain has become a steady downpour. Toni Melrose-Mikeska became friends with the former babysitter turned Chris Dawson's second wife at Dreamworld in 1987 when 'JC' and her young daughter attended her performances as Coo-ee the Gumnut Fairy in the Kenny Koala show. In the podcast, Thomas alleged he had uncovered new evidence that indicated Dawson may have killed his wife in order to continue an affair with a former student. Shewas killed by the manwho was supposed to love and protect her. Her body. Chris Dawson in his suit on Tuesday before he was convicted of the 1982 murder of Lynette Dawson and taken away to prison. They moved to Queensland and had a child together. Within a few months of the podcasts release, the police commissioner of New South Wales issued a formal apology for mishandling the case all those years ago and agreed to provide new evidence for prosecutors to consider. This strange coincidence certainly helped Chris defense make their case. The main reason for Dawsons application was the publicity generated in the case by the Australian newspapers Teachers Pet podcast. Harrison said he agreed with the prosecution that Dawson had become obsessed with his teenage lover, his former student and babysitter JC, and murdered Lynette Dawson to ensure the new relationship could continue. Lynette Dawson was a Sydney wife and mother who went missing under mysterious circumstances. 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