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. Chris was careful in his initial reporting, denying that anything tragic had happened to his wife. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Thebank that won't pass on rate rises unless you ring and ask:Just one of the ruses greedy lenders use to Meghan Markle was 'hugely disappointed' by life in the royal family and as a 'global superstar' she 'hated Twitter is DOWN: App crashes for thousands of frustrated users around the world. Chris and Lyn Dawson's daughter Shanelle shared cryptic post on Wednesday She shared excerpt from a poem that describes goodness and suffering The post came less than 24 hours after her. These are the four lies Chris Dawson told that, eventually, meant he was jailed for murder. The family's babysitter, a schoolgirl who can only be identified as JC, moves into the home within days. The next news came from Chris as he spun the first silk in a web of lies torn down this week. For the people who loved her, today's verdict will bring some form of closure. They've grown up with his version of the story of their mother - that she walked out on them, without a word. This time, however, it was investigated as a suspected murder rather than a missing persons case. 'She said "Im heading back to Sydney" and she was going to go to the police and she said if she doesnt make it, I was to go to police and tell them some information she' relayed to me,' Ms Melrose-Mikeska said via video link from Tweed Heads. On Tuesday, New South Wales supreme court Justice Ian Harrison found Dawson guilty. The court also heard on Wednesday a taped phone conversation between Marilyn Dawson and the twins' parents, Joan and Sid. Her body. The judge saying, 'Mr Dawson, you have to go now'. We could have had our sister.". Speaking after she had been interview by police in 1999 about the possibility Lynette had been allegedly murdered, Marilyn Dawson said of the Dawson twins, 'I know they have boys' talks, but they wouldn't be plotting murder. This podcast focused on the idea that Lynette Dawson was dead and that her husband killed her. Supreme court verdict in case that was the subject of popular Teachers Pet podcast will be appealed, Dawsons lawyer says. The mother-of-two abruptly vanished from her Sydney Northern Beaches home almost 40 years ago in January 1982. In 1980, Chris began a relationship with his 16-year-old Cromer High School student Joanne Curtis. This strange coincidence certainly helped Chris defense make their case. In a supreme court verdict, Christopher Dawson (left) has been found guilty of killing Lynette Dawson on Sydneys northern beaches four decades ago. 'We didn't mention my mother. Chris began teaching physical education at Cromer High School in this year. And tomorrow, and for the rest of their lives, they will have to live with today's verdict, and all it means. Image: AAP. Her sister Sherryn has always supported their father's innocence, despite the fact that little is known about her personal life. A friend of Joannes, Michelle Walsh, told A Current Affair her friend believed Chris had killed Lyn. The second time I saw him being extremely violent towards her near the bedroom door and that just shattered me. 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. "Chris Dawson's case was, I think from the outset, quite a difficult one," says Anthony Whealy, QC, the former NSW Supreme Court judge, who presided over the 2010 jury trial of Keli Lane, which saw the mother convicted of her baby's murder in the absence of a body. Marilyn described the very close relationship Paul and Chris Dawson had, wearing the same or matching clothes, having the same favourite drink, Coca Cola, living in the same house as they built new houses in the same street, 400m from each other. Both Chris and Paul are alleged to have regularly engaged in illicit sexual behavior with female students at their respective schools; Chris is further alleged to have been one of six male teachers who preyed on students at Cromer High School. By Eliza Mcphee and Candace Sutton for Daily Mail Australia, Published: 07:48 GMT, 1 September 2022 | Updated: 09:12 GMT, 1 September 2022, Chris and Lynette Dawson's daughter Shanelle (pictured) shared a cryptic post including a poem about suffering on Wednesday. According to ACA former students allege there was group of at least six teachers who slept with teenage girls. A few years later, he divorced Lyn in her absence and married JC. 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. For the next three years, the investigators gathered evidence, and in April 2018 they had enough material to bring to prosecutors. 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. Over the years, two families have been at war over these different stories. 23:53 EST 07 Jun 2022 Justice Harrison identified four deceptions in Dawson's defence which "demonstrated a guilty conscience", particularly Dawson's claims Lyn called him repeatedly after she went missing. [20] He found Dawson had lied on a number of occasions,[20] including about his relationship with Curtis, about his desire to resume a relationship with his wife, and about receiving phone calls from Lynette after she disappeared. Michelle Lynn Monaghan (/ m n h n / MON--hn; born March 23, 1976) is an American actress. Find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out. And then there were Dawson's lies. Meanwhile Lyn's family and work friends were growing more anxious by the police dismissal of Lyn as a missing person. None of the circumstances considered alone can establish Mr Dawsons guilt, the judge said. Initially, her disappearance was considered a "missing persons" matter. Everything in the house had to be perfect because she never wanted to upset him, Bev told 60 Minutes. 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. Harrison dismissed several reported sightings of Lynette Dawson which occurred after 8 January 1982. Just 24 hours earlier, the Simms family were left stunned when Justice Ian Harrison SC confirmed what they had long suspected that Greg's sister Lynette Dawson, who disappeared 40 years ago, had been murdered by her husband Chris Dawson. [21], On 30 August 2022, Justice Harrison took five hours to deliver his reasons for finding Dawson guilty. 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. "She was never one to want to stand out.". "I can never forgive Chris for the way he treated Lyn, but also for the cruel and callous way he treated our distressed and grieving mother," Lyn's sister, Pat, says. For the next 13 years, not much headway was made in the case. "We did it, Lyn," whispers Greg. "We were on the verge of just saying, look, we've been looking for answers for Lyn for so many years, maybe we should just let it lie now," Greg says. She was last seen in January. There's a reason why the Australian podcast "The Teacher's Pet" has been a hit around the world. Rishi Sunak warns MPs they can't trust 'Mr 2nd Referendum' Keir Starmer on Brexit in meeting with backbench DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Rishi Sunak's vaunted Brexit deal could be a landmark achievement, Rishi's deal gives Brexit a second chance. For the latest information, searchABC Emergency, For the latestweather warnings in the Northern Territory, search onABC Emergency, Follow the action from the third Test between India and Australia in Delhi in our live blog. We just want to find her now and lay her to rest, but we're doubtful that will ever happen. JC and Dawson married in 1984 and separated in 1990. Over the following years he divorced his missing wife and ended up marrying Joanne. "The picture came from one of the nurses who was working on the ward," Pat explains. Forty years is not possible to re-live. The whole of the circumstantial evidence satisfies me that Lynette Dawson is dead and that she did not voluntarily abandon her home, the judge said on Tuesday. [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]. And that was the one that broke it.. "Why would she ring the man who'd effectively driven her out of the house? Like the 2001 inquest, this one also recommended laying charges against Chris Dawson. Australian Story first covered the story of Lyn Dawson nearly 20 years ago. Harrison has spent the time since deliberating on his verdict. Harrison had presided over the matter after Dawson successfully applied for a judge-only trial. Charges, however, were never pressed, as the powers that be felt there was not enough evidence. However, a deeper look into the disappearance revealed some sinister details. [1] Her whereabouts are unknown, but two coronial inquests found that she had been murdered. When Ms Longhurst asked about that first wife, she said JC told her she and Lynette's daughters 'just call her fatty and we dont talk about it'. Chris began an affair with a student at the school, 16-year-old Joanne Curtis before Lynette disappeared. EXCLUSIVE 'I hope he has a hard time in a men's prison': Estranged wife of trans double rapist Isla Bryson Ed Sheeran reveals wife Cherry was diagnosed with tumour while pregnant which couldn't be treated until Matt Hancock was warned it was 'inhumane' to impose restrictions on visiting care homes and elderly were at Jacob Rees-Mogg 'had a Covid test for one of his children couriered to his home amid a shortage', according Time to veto keto? On January 9, 1982, Lyn was due to meet her mother at Northbridge Baths, where Chris worked. Lynette Dawson vanished in 1982. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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. Two years later, a second, lengthier inquest was held. Lyn worked a nurse, and was seen as a kind and gentle soul. A date has not been set for that hearing. I think maybe she'd come from the country and didn't have her family around, so Lyn used to go down in her time off and sit with her, just to give her some comfort. [4][5][10][9] Cowdery again refused to prosecute Dawson, citing the lack of evidence. They were married for 12 years, and had two daughters Shanelle and Sherrin. 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".'. It was all part of the web of deceit that would become Chris Dawson's eventual undoing in court, says Greg. On New Years Day or 2 January 1982, JC travelled north to South West Rocks, where she camped with her sisters and friends. "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.". 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. Yet, once again, nothing actually came of it. Chris Dawson's daughter has shared a poem about 'enduring and suffering' in a cryptic post made just hours after her dad was locked up likely for the rest of his life. [4], In April 2018, following extensive investigations, NSW Police requested the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to review its brief of evidence. Chris didnt report his wife as missing until six weeks later, and told everyone she had run off to join a religious cult. Lynette Dawson and one of her daughters. 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. The podcast reviewed all of the information that had turned up over the years and pieced it together with new witnesses and theories. 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'. [9] She planned to meet her mother and family at Northbridge Baths the following day, but never arrived. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAgltfUt0Uc. 'It's still possible in the end to realise why you are here and why you have endured, and why you might have suffered so much,' the poem continues. Her husband quickly moves in his teenage mistress after his wife disappears. They were married in 1970 at St Jude's Church, Randwick, in Sydney[4][5] and later had two children. Having taken over the case in 2015, the NSW PoliceUnsolved Homicide Unitsent a new brief to the DPP in early 2018. Their relationship became sexual, and Chris employed the girl as a babysitter for his two daughters. Lawyers for Dawson said Harrison could not make this finding beyond reasonable doubt, in part because the police had failed to properly investigate reported sightings of Lynette Dawson, and also as the alleged motive for murder did not make sense because killing his wife would only create more problems for Dawson. 22/29 In 1980, Chris began a secret affair with Joanne Curtis, 16, his student, soon after introducing her to his family as the babysitter. Her disappearance sparked a 30-year police investigation and, after renewed attention from a podcast published by The Australian, her husband Chris Dawson was charged with her murder. Just weeks after Lyn went missing, Dawson moved JC into the family home. But she hadn't really discussed her marriage to Dawson until the night she left him when she stayed atMs Melrose-Mikeska's Southport home before escaping to Sydney with her daughter. January 1982 - Lynette "Lyn" Dawson, 33, disappears from her home at Bayview on Sydney's northern beaches, leaving behind two young daughters. 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. Maybe you'll hope she has found some semblance ofpeace; that wherever she is, she is no longer in any anguish and pain. Even after the official search for Lynette Dawson had begun and fingers continued to point to him as a suspect, Chris remained adamant that his wife was alive. Shanelle cant say yes or no. Either way, now you'll likely go about your day. Ms Hardiman said she had subsequently phoned the Dawson house in mid-January to speak with Lyn about the completed sketches, Chris Dawson answered the phone. Two coronial inquests have found Lyn was killed by a known person, her . The two had planned to meet up with the rest of Dawsons family the following day. Lynette Dawson with husband Chris and daughter Shanelle. Rishi Sunak looked like he had won the lottery. To the untrained eye, it is just a regular wooden park bench, but to Lyn's family it has always been a very special place. Marilyn Dawson said that she had become aware of Lyn's marriage problems before her disappearance, and had urged her to 'fight' for her marriage which had become 'very shaky'. Barbara Cruise, the owner of the childcare centre where Lyn worked as a registered nurse, believes police were blinded by Dawson's "celebrity". All times AEDT (GMT +11). Looking for Lyn: With Joanne Curtis, Damian Loone. After her passing in 2001, Helena's ashes were scattered in the ocean at Clovelly where she had swum every day. The crown's witnesses have attempted to paint Dawson as a violent, controlling and abusive husband, with testimony emerging that Mrs Dawson had been seen variously with a black eye, and bruises around her throat and on her arms and thigh. Olivia Newton-Johns daughter has revealed how she keeps her connection to her mother alive months after her tragic passing. But it will never be enough. "It just happened so quickly," he says. Before long they had two children and Chris began winding down his rather successful rugby career. He turned her young daughters memories against her - tarring her as a cowardly, unloving mother who just "went away". The case had previously exploded into the public spotlight after it was featured in a hit true-crime podcast. The mother-of-two disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1982. "And Hedley came forward and saw my sister, Pat, and said he wanted to do a podcast. And they've now been handed the true version of events - that their father, their protector, their constant, was the one who took her from them. "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. JC contacted him out of the blue. Lyn Dawson was missing for 40 years but her brother and sister never gave up hope. Things we all take for granted. Between 10 and 12 January 1982, Harrison found Dawson picked up JC from South West Rocks and took her back to Sydney. Now, a journalist's podcast may have finally solved the mystery of her disappearance. Dawson did not give evidence during the two-month trial, which finished on 11 July. Lynette Dawson shortly before her disappearance. In the late 1950s, she went missing for several years. "There was a big question over it it obviously gave the prosecuting authority pause on a number of occasions.". Right: The couple in . The prosecution alleged there was a powerful circumstantial case that Dawson killed his wife to continue an unfettered relationship with the student, known as JC, whom he had met as a teenager while working as a physical education teacher. "Clovelly is part of the Simms family, it's in our blood," he explains. This fascination has followed Lynette's daughters throughout their lives, on first a small, and then a global scale, and it's coloured every aspect of the lives they've built in its shadow, and will go on tolive from here. [20] The defence relied on a number of witnesses who claimed to have seen Lynette since her disappearance. When Justice Harrison finally pronounced the "guilty" verdict in court last week, Greg couldn't quite believe it was all over. Fiercely. "I think the world is crying," says Merilyn Simms, standing close to her husband Greg. "Essentially it came down to the infatuation with the young girl, [a] deteriorating marriage and a sudden realisation on Chris Dawson's part that, in order to have this girl with him as he wanted for the rest of his life, he had to get rid of his wife.". Former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC told ABC, the evidence simply wasnt strong enough. Without a body, without knowing first of all whether in fact she is dead, without knowing secondly if she is dead, how she died, its very hard to mount a case of a reasonable prospect of conviction just on motive and the undefined existence of means and opportunity. Lynette Dawsons last known conversation was with her mother. By Then, in May 2018, a month after Australian prosecutors began to review the case, Thomas shocked the world by debuting a podcast titled The Teachers Pet. Journalist Hedley Thomas, centre, with Lynette Dawsons brother Greg Simms and his wife Merilyn outside the NSW supreme court after the guilty verdict was handed down. "What was lacking was good, hard evidence to try and build a strong circumstantial case and to prove that this woman [Lyn] had in fact died," he says. Dawsons lawyer, Greg Walsh, told the judge after the verdict that his client would likely apply for bail before his sentencing hearing. 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. And once upon a time, she loved. "Mum never stopped searching for Lyn. Until four years ago, when The Teacher's Pet was released, Lynette's daughters' grief - and that of her family - was private. (60 Minutes) The then-33-year-old mum of two little girls has never been heard from since. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. I thought he was going to wipe the glass with it, but he didnt. In earlier testimony on Tuesday, the court heard JC - who later became Chris Dawson's schoolgirl wife - allegedly told her best friend on theGold Coast that he had 'murdered his first wife' and urged her 'go to police' if she 'didn't make it out'. Graduations. [16], Chris Dawson applied to have the case stayed on the basis that there had been an "inordinate delay" in prosecuting him, and that there was a risk that members of the jury could have prejudged his guilt due to widespread publicity about the case. While their quest for justice is finally over, the long path to peace is ongoing for the Simms family. Mr Simms also paid homage to his and Mrs Dawson's late mother, Helena Simms, who died in 2001 - none the wiser on her daughter's whereabouts. Mr Walsh also said that Dawson was 'in shock and sad about his predicament, and worried about his children'. Instead, he insisted that she had run off to join a religious group following arguments about her spending habits. "I'm absolutely elated at the outcome but I'm still coming to terms with it," explains Pat, who watched the verdict at home with her daughter and twin sons, the four of them jumping up and down and hugging each other when Chris Dawson was pronounced guilty. denying that anything tragic had happened. One of Joannes friends told A Current Affair on Monday that her former friend was scared of Chris. Chris Dawson in his suit on Tuesday before he was convicted of the 1982 murder of Lynette Dawson and taken away to prison. The main reason for Dawsons application was the publicity generated in the case by the Australian newspapers Teachers Pet podcast. He dismissed claims Lynette Dawson had been seen alive after January 1982 or that she had contacted her husband. And because of his athletic ability or his football prowess, I feel that they believed him.". This inquest determined that despite the lack of a body, it was likely that Lynette Dawson was dead and had been killed by a known person, heavily implying it was her cheating husband Chris, against whom they recommended charges should be pressed. He also homed in on what he suggested were serious errors in the police investigation of the case, and the failure of the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to charge Dawson despite two separate inquest findings that he had been responsible for the death of Lynette Dawson. Following his client's conviction, Mr Walsh said that Dawson maintained his innocence and would be appealing the guilty verdict. , updated Over the span of 14 weeks, Thomas broke down the case, examining and interviewing new witnesses that the police failed to contact. What could have possibly caused a mother of two to leave her young family behind? "One minute you got your hopes up, in the next minute, it's not going to happen.". After almost 40 years of questioning, it seems answers may finally be around the corner. In 1981, while teaching at Cromer High School in New South Wales, Chris started up an affair with a pupil, 16-year-old Joanne Curtis. The absence of her mother left Shanelle feeling abandoned and confused for much of her life. It was the last time Helena spoke to her 33-year-old daughter. She said he was a loving father to her, and struggled to see him as the narcissistic, abusive man that others made him out to be. Two prison officers entered the room and handcuffed him. He grabbed the tea towel. I do feel really sad for these women, its must be an absolute nightmare. 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. 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