Former teacher Chris Dawson has launched a bid to be freed from prison and have his conviction quashed after he was found guilty of murdering his wife to make way for his teenage babysitter.
Dawson, 75, was told he would likely die in jail after he was last year found guilty of murdering his wife Lynette Simms, who disappeared from their Bayview home on Sydney’s northern beaches in 1982.
Ms Dawson disappeared in January 1982 - her body has never been found and she never contacted her friends or family, including her two children.Lawyers acting for the former Newtown Jets rugby league player are set to appear in the Court of Criminal Appeal - the state’s highest court - on Thursday in a first step in attempting to have his conviction overturned.
Last year, Justice Harrison said the case against Dawson was circumstantial. However, he said finding that Dawson killed Lynette was “the only rational inference that the circumstances would enable me to draw”. Dawson was found to have killed his wife just weeks after he had unsuccessfully attempted to run off with his teenage babysitter and student to start a new life in Queensland.Chris Dawson and his former student, JC, on their wedding day. Picture: SuppliedAt trial, his defence argued that he had neither the opportunity nor the motive to kill the mother of his two children.
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