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

[Estelle]

Seems there are a lot of concessions being granted in favour of Chris Dawson but if they help ensure there isn't a mistrial and justice is delivered then so be it.

Chris Dawson has been treated with kid gloves for years. Justice often comes slowly but as long as it comes before he dies.

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

May 2022 can't come soon enough to finally bring Chris Dawson to justice. Bring on that damned trial

Hopefully there will be something in the news in the coming months.
This is an old article just to confirm the May 2022 trial date.
Chris Dawson to face trial in 2022 for allegedly murdering his wife

 

[TootsieFootsie]

It's behind a paywall, I think.
Says Chris Dawson has launched a final bid to avoid trial.

Dawson in High Court bid to avoid murder trial

 

[musicaljoke]

It's behind a paywall, I think.
Says Chris Dawson has launched a final bid to avoid trial.

Dawson in High Court bid to avoid murder trial

Chris Dawson’s lawyers will have 20 minutes to make their case for special leave at a High Court showdown in Canberra on April 8th. So we shall wait and see.

 

[KidonGadol]

Chris Dawson’s lawyers will have 20 minutes to make their case for special leave at a High Court showdown in Canberra on April 8th. So we shall wait and see.

This is what I found on the matter. (Yes the Australian's article is blocked except for the first few sentences).


Comment - It's the same old - they are trying for a stay of execution by the sounds of it . It will no doubt be on the tired old theme - that the case has had so much media exposure that it will not be possible to find an impartial jury.

- Sky News :
Chris Dawson to launch a ‘last-ditch bid’ to avoid murder trial over wife’s death
12 hours ago

Former Newtown Jets star Chris Dawson is launching a “last-ditch bid” to avoid a trial for the murder of his wife, Lynette, according to Sky News host Peta Credlin.

“Early next month, Dawson’s lawyers will ask the High Court for special leave to appeal – in a bid to stay a trial for Lynette’s murder,” Ms Credlin said.

She also said applications for it to “stay a trial” have previously been “rejected” by the NSW Supreme Court and NSW Court of Criminal Appeal.

 

[sleepinoz]

Lauren Tomasi
@LaurenTomasi
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#BREAKING: The High Court has dismissed Chris Dawson’s special leave application. With this final bid to permanently halt his trial for the murder of Lynette Dawson in 1982 dismissed, the 73-yr-old is expected to stand trial next month.
@9NewsSyd
@9NewsAUS

 

[Morrisa]

Lauren Tomasi
@LaurenTomasi
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#BREAKING: The High Court has dismissed Chris Dawson’s special leave application. With this final bid to permanently halt his trial for the murder of Lynette Dawson in 1982 dismissed, the 73-yr-old is expected to stand trial next month.
@9NewsSyd
@9NewsAUS

Just coming to post that Sleep!.... Finally we have some movement. Bring on May.

 

[Trooper]

Chris Dawson set to face trial for murder after High Court threw out special leave application - ABC News

If ever the wheels of justice ground slowly, this crime is up there with the longest.. So much water under the bridge, yet Chris Dawson has to transport himself back to the bloke he was then, and , having done that, to turn his whole story inside out to make it credible to a jury, this time, not mates down the station or at the club. Big difference.

And this time, the brothers may be a handicap, and not an advantage, all things considered.

 

[they'll get you]

Chris Dawson to face murder trial
By Freya Noble10:50
Former Newtown Jets footballer Chris Dawson will face a criminal trial over the alleged murder of his wife Lynette Dawson nearly 40 years ago.

This morning the High Court dismissed Mr Dawon's special leave application, the final bid to permanently halt the proceedings.

The 73-year-old is expected to stand trial next month.

He has pleaded not guilty to killing his wife, who was last seen at their Bayview home in 1982 and has repeatedly insisted she is still alive.

 

[Trooper]

Dawson really stretched the elastic of the court 's panties on this one, asking for special leave, I think it was due , he said, to his age, and the eradication of people's memories over such a long period of time.

But the law doesn't give these things heavy credit. Merely a passing nod to it. His shot at trying for this hearing and the possibility of a positive result for Dawson was kicking the can down the road, and now the road has run out.

And we all go back to Dawson's story, that Lynn left to go shopping, he drove her to the bus stop, that's the last time he saw her, he says... and he went to the pool. And , he says, she was leaving him, her two girls she had gone thru years of IVF, her beautiful house, a husband she loved, a job she had at the nursery, her loving extended family, sisters, brothers, mother, father. . a father who had lent Dawson $10,000 to buy that house, and never got a cent back. Sure, Dawson.

She got on the bus, with her handbag and one shopping bag.

 

[they'll get you]

Justices Stephen Gageler and Michelle Gordon threw out the application and until the placed a non-publication order on the details of the hearing until the conclusion of the trial.

Mr Dawson's trial is due to commence in the NSW Supreme Court on May 9.

Chris Dawson set to face trial for murder after failed High Court application

 

[Trooper]

Justices Stephen Gageler and Michelle Gordon threw out the application and until the placed a non-publication order on the details of the hearing until the conclusion of the trial.

Mr Dawson's trial is due to commence in the NSW Supreme Court on May 9.

Chris Dawson set to face trial for murder after failed High Court application

oooo TGY... nothing like a non publication order to start the judicial juices running. Obviously, his failed application for a permanent stay must be severely prejudicial to a fair trial, in the opinion of the justices. ...

 

[TootsieFootsie]

"my husband made me a lovely drink"

Those words keep running through my mind.

 

[Kemug]

People are living longer these days, and more people are living into their nineties. Tomorrow I will be looking for a 90th birthday card for a male friend. It's ludicrous to argue that CD shouldn't be jailed or even tried because he has reached the (not so old) age of 73.

 

[they'll get you]

"my husband made me a lovely drink"

Those words keep running through my mind.

What happened to Lynette?
On January 8, 1982, Lynette rang her mother Helen after a marriage counselling session.


A "sozzled"-sounding Lynette said the therapy session went well, and Chris had made her a "lovely drink".

She had planned to meet her family the next day, but never turned up.

The obstacles of Lynette Dawson's murder

 

[they'll get you]

People are living longer these days, and more people are living into their nineties. Tomorrow I will be looking for a 90th birthday card for a male friend. It's ludicrous to argue that CD shouldn't be jailed or even tried because he has reached the (not so old) age of 73.

It would be never too late to die in jail, alone.
That would be justice.
Porridge for every future birthday.
No female body warmth not even an electric blanket.
Nothing.

These type of predators should be put away.

 

[they'll get you]

oooo TGY... nothing like a non publication order to start the judicial juices running. Obviously, his failed application for a permanent stay must be severely prejudicial to a fair trial, in the opinion of the justices. ...

“a non-publication order on the details of the hearing until the conclusion of the trial”

This is so wrong. It’s been nearly 40 years Lynette has been deceased so where’s her voice?

 

[TootsieFootsie]

At first I thought that too, but upon reading it again, I think it means the hearing that's just happened where he was trying to avoid going to trial. It's so whatever was said won't prejudice the trial.

I don't think it means we won't hear anything about the trial or any new information that comes out.

This is so wrong. It’s been nearly 40 years Lynette has been deceased so where’s her voice?

 

[DRT]

It still baffles me that all the witnesses at the pre trial hearings who were "such good friends" with Lyn all saw her but none of them spoke to her. Chris is the only one "who allegedly" spoke to her since she went missing.

Ever think you have seen someone you knew but when you got closer up you realise it wasn't the right person. I certainly have.

 

[Bats]

IMO
If Person A murders Person B and Person A doesn't want anyone to know what they've done .... there is no other option for Person A but to lie to everyone!