This book was lurking under the tree as a gift, I finished it in one swoop, as a pre xmas treat, a very consolidated carefully catalogued read, not many stones unturned, what a low life Dawson is, from go to whoa. ........How is Shanelle's book going? Good read?
I am in the last chapter of Rebecca Hazel's book and it is a gem. Particularly in relation to JC, who you really get to know because Rebecca spent so much time with her and visited so many of the key locations with her.
There was an open night at Cromer High School decades after JC left Chris Dawson and Rebecca attended with JC. They stopped at some photos on the wall and JC said : 'There's my daughter, she was a prefect here.'
Rebecca couldn't believe, with all of what went before, that JC's daughter had also gone to Cromer High and either could I.
How JC got out alive is inexplicable.
There was one very razor like remark made, it resonated strongly with me, that Dawson's 'divorce' from Lynn was 'cost free'.. that is, he didn't have to share the marital assets, he didn't have to pay alimony, or spousal support, he didn't have to pay child support, he didn't have to even pay a solicitor, ( big bro Pete on the job , again) , and it struck me that there, in 1982, Dawson must have been the only Australian male to experience a 'cost free' divorce, since the change in the Family Law . The only other blokes who had a 'cost free ' divorce',as it turns out years later, also took the Dawson route to that conclusion. Murder, that is.
It still baffles me that the judge in that suit , Lynn V Chris, did not pick up the anomaly. Baffles and rankles. Of course, along with the DPP rejection of prosecution, time after time, ... it's either a cockup or a conspiracy,.....