Still Missing Australia - Lynette Dawson, 34, Sydney, Jan 1982 *Arrest* #3

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Which brings me back now to thinking Dawson will , at least , contemplate pleading guilty. In exchange for a full and frank disclosure of his vile and vicious crime , not least against his own daughters, for a life spent under house arrest. At 72, prison would be intolerable to think on, and throwing oneself on the mercy of the court, saving the taxpayer dollars , etc... .. where is the body of Lynn would have to be part of the deal. ..


It is not improbable!.
 
Chris Dawson wins murder trial delay

Another article very similar. I noticed these comments. Funny people say chat disappears, I was talking to a work colleague today about the case and how quiet it was. This was before catching this article.

"In accounts he gave to various people after January 9, including to investigating police in May 1991, Dawson said he spoke to his wife several times by telephone after last seeing her on the morning of January 9.

When contact with her ceased, he said he ultimately accepted she had decided to leave him and conceal her whereabouts from him and her friends and family.

The Crown also accepted the obligation of discounting any reasonable possibility that a woman seen by a number of people in various NSW locations after January 8 they believed to be Lynette Dawson was in fact her."

Not sure you can prove that someone saw was someone else. Maybe they can find who the nurse was in the hospital that 2 people saw to at least eliminate the nurse. To find someone racing through a crowd or at a bus stop. Perhaps they could check records of employees at Gladesville hospital as well but that is not going to be easy.

May the great fight go on for Lyn.
 
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...-permanent-stay-rejected-20200925-p55zec.html

Dawson trial to go ahead after application for permanent stay rejected

A NSW Supreme Court judge has warned journalists and broadcasters to apply "reflection and restraint" in podcasts investigating cold cases, after the subject of a podcast unsuccessfully sought a permanent stay on his murder trial for reasons including adverse publicity.
 
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Dawson trial to go ahead after application for permanent stay rejected

Dawson trial to go ahead after application for permanent stay rejected

Georgina Mitchell

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A NSW Supreme Court judge has warned journalists and broadcasters to apply "reflection and restraint" in podcasts investigating cold cases, after the subject of a podcast unsuccessfully sought a permanent stay on his murder trial for reasons including adverse publicity.
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In April, Mr Dawson sought a permanent stay of proceedings citing several factors, including disadvantage due to a delay in bringing charges against him, and an argument that his trial will be "irredeemably unfair" due to public commentary and media coverage.

Justice Elizabeth Fullerton declined this month to grant a permanent stay, but agreed to a temporary stay which means any jury trial cannot proceed until after June 1, 2021.
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A judgment summary published on Friday, which details Justice Fullerton's reasons, says the court was left in "no doubt" that the "unrestrained and uncensored public commentary about Lynette Dawson's suspected murder is the most egregious example of media interference with a criminal trial process which this court has had to consider" in a permanent stay application.

The court found any delay to the commencement of the trial "intensifies the risk of memories fading or, worse still, witnesses dying".

"However, given the extent of the adverse publicity in this case ... the court resolved that the accused's trial should be temporarily stayed to allow that commentary to abate with a view to ensuring the accused's fundamental right to a fair trial conducted according to law," the judgment summary says.
 
There does not appear to be any direction or even mention of his other charges , those ones that have a couple of living witnesses, the young ladies at the time of the crime who now have laid out the crime against them for which Dawson has , indeed, been charged with, Non Consensual sex with a minor, was one way of putting it.

I am presuming Dawson applied , as a bundle, to have all his matters 'stayed'... he didn't have a hope of those crimes being put aside as they have no historical amnesty at all. So he lost that gamble as well, is what I am thinking, and that trial, for those crimes will proceed, one presumes after the murder trial. That is a bit hard on the accusers of Dawson, but legally, it has to be that way in case of cross-contamination of the series of crimes Dawson is charged with, not just murder.

So either way, Dawson's life is made up of unbroken high expectations of horror and fear of the inevitable. Again, nice. .... can't think of a better bloke to have this landed on. No good nights sleep at all, now.
 
MOO it is not that hard to find jurors who are not part of the "clamouring" public.

Sydney is a big city, and there are many newcomers settling here every year. They are not interested in an ex rugby player and his missing wife. CD is not the centre of universe as he might think.
 
Kemug said:
However, when all is said and done, CD has got away with it for 38 years, when he should have been locked up (assuming he killed her). He's basically had a free life. I don't like to think that, but it's true.:(
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It is highly unfair, I agree. I doubt if his life has been 'free', in all senses, but certainly, enough freedom to irk deeply.

When Dawson comes to give evidence, which his barrister will do everything to persuade him not to, it is going to be difficult for Dawson to recall the depth of the emotion that gripped him with such urgency way back when, when murdering Lynn was the only answer to the problems he had put himself in. Particularly considering the emotional attachment didn'And t last the distance, and his memory of that time, when the babysitter was the be all , end all, faded with experience and his old pattern of finding fault took over again and that relationship collapsed in endless squabbling and enmity on both sides... It will be hard for Dawson to recall exactly why he did what he did, in the light of the further life he then went on to live.

And since then he has had to persuade first of all , himself, that he didn't do it. Persuading others had to become second nature for all these years, no drunken confessions, no slip ups, no Freudian slips of the tongue, he has had to watch himself every second of the day and night. Absolutely no letup ever.
 
Morrisa said:
gives him another nine months to squirm.....
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irritatingly free and sleeping in his own bed though Morissa :mad:
Everybody knows if convicted he will die in jail so they dragging out his freedom for as long as possible and.....IMO the court is playing his game.

The judicial system needs to get with the times and get out of the dark ages.
Chris Dawson trial delayed by media, public ‘clamour’

Delaying it yet another year is another year of deteriorating evidence and witness accounts...why??
So the public can be silenced in our outrage at the already miscarriage of justice so far?

We will not go quietly!!!:eek:

moo
 
As the wheels of justice are quietly chugging along.....wondering how all the Dawson marriages are travelling with all this dirty laundry airing.......;)

moo
 
Chris Dawson has had his bail varied to move houses as he awaits trial over his wife Lynette’s alleged cold case murder.

Mr Dawson, 72, was on Monday successful in having his bail conditions changed so he could move from his home in Mount Coolum to a new address at Peregian Beach, just south of Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

The application was not opposed by prosecutor David Laird and granted by Justice Stephen Campbell during a brief hearing in the NSW Supreme Court.
Chris Dawson to move house in bail win ahead of murder trial
 
Mr Dawson has pleaded not guilty and has repeatedly stated he played no part in her disappearance.

In its bid to stay the trial, Mr Dawson’s legal team told a hearing last year he had been prejudiced by the “nature and extent of public commentary” concerning Ms Dawson’s suspected murder.

But Justice Elizabeth Fullerton ruled he should face a jury over the historical allegations, despite strong media attention.

He is scheduled to face a jury trial later this year.
 
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Chris Dawson has had his bail varied to move houses as he awaits trial over his wife Lynette’s alleged cold case murder.

Mr Dawson, 72, was on Monday successful in having his bail conditions changed so he could move from his home in Mount Coolum to a new address at Peregian Beach, just south of Noosa on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

The application was not opposed by prosecutor David Laird and granted by Justice Stephen Campbell during a brief hearing in the NSW Supreme Court.
Chris Dawson to move house in bail win ahead of murder trial
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Must be sick of all the drive bys that people are doing at his old address. Given the address was published by a Queensland Newspaper at one stage.
 
Kemug said:
However, when all is said and done, CD has got away with it for 38 years, when he should have been locked up (assuming he killed her). He's basically had a free life. I don't like to think that, but it's true.:(
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I've had a little rethink about this - what is the going rate for a murder these days? Probably less than 38 years? So if he had been charged and sentenced 38 years ago, he would be out by now wouldn't he, having "paid his debt to society", and free as a bird. Perhaps it's better this way.
 
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