Barbara Cruse, head of the childcare centre where Lyn Dawson worked, was interviewed by Hedley in around 2018 and her comments are are as perceptive as they are interesting :
'We used to know Paul and Paul's wife, Marilyn as well, and she used to have her children in the centre. We knew them all reasonably well.'
'Chris was the golden-haired boy. Everything Chris did had to be right. So therefore, if there was something wrong with the marriage, it was her (Lyn's) fault. That was how Marilyn saw it as well. I think they just thought she didn't look after herself. Marilyn was quite an attractive lady, quite slim. And Lyn had put on a bit of weight.'
'I think what happened with them, he's a very handsome man. A model. And she was a very attractive girl when they married. So 12 years later, she'd got a bit bigger. She still had a gorgeous smile and was still, I would say, a lovely girl but she wasn't model material. And i think maybe Chris was about the looks by that stage.'