Accused murderer Chris Dawson’s other family
Exerts and paraphrasing from the above article :
Chris Dawson’s third wife Sue has stuck with the accused murderer for 28 years.
After meeting in 1990 or shortly thereafter, science teacher Sue and PE teacher Chris lived happily at Yeppoon, near Rockhampton, on Queensland’s Capricorn Coast.
There, as Sue taught science at St Brendan’s Catholic Boys School, Chris was a teacher at St Ursula’s Girls College.
Sue’s twin children, Kobi and Jaga, took on the name of Dawson while at school in Yeppoon.
In the small coastal town, which then had a population of about 10,000 people, Chris Dawson’s traumatic history was unknown.
Sue’s twins attended Sacred Heart Primary School and were known by the surname of Dawson.
Graduating to high school, Jaga went to St Brendan’s College and Kobi to St Ursula’s.
But in 2001, the disappearance of Lyn Dawson became news as an inquest was held, followed by another inquest in 2003.
Both inquests concluded there was one person of interest in Lyn’s disappearance and that was Chris Dawson.
The national publicity of the Lyn Dawson case was followed by the disappearance of Sue and Chris Dawson from Yeppoon.
The couple moved to the Sunshine Coast and also have a property on the Gold Coast at Biggera Waters, a 15-minute drive from the home of Paul and Marilyn Dawson.
Jaga no longer has Dawson as his last name and has reverted to his biological father’s surname, but remains friends on Facebook with Chris Dawson’s eldest daughter Shanelle.
Kobi, now a mother of two, has taken her husband’s surname.
With his release from prison in time for Christmas, Chris Dawson and his wife Sue will now have to wait at least 18 months until a trial, but which may not go ahead until 2021.
