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

[bfew]

Mr Hutcheons extremely delayed evidence was ok.

Possibly very handy for any future legal action against various Dawson's for any (if any) conspiracy to provide false testimony and false police/witness statements related to Lynnette Dawson's disappearance.

 

[bfew]

One of todays excluded witnesses was going to claim they saw Chris Dawson push Lyn down the stairs at a 1969 Shirley Bassey concert.

The trial Judge might consider that there is already more than enough evidence of Chris Dawson's alleged physical violence against Lynnette Dawson, and that one more alleged instance of it is not going to change the likely judgement at the trial's conclusion.

 

[Cagney&Lacey]

I found it extremely interesting that PD and MD's testimony of that fateful Christmas weren't in agreeance. In fact they were the total opposite.

PD claimed the CD and LD's marriage was fine and dandy and he didn't recall CD & JC being at his house on Christmas Day.
MD's testimony on the other hand was the complete opposite. She conceded that they were having troubles in their marriage and that LD should have fought harder for her husband. She confirmed that CD & JC were not only at her house on Christmas Day but had use of her bed.

Surely all this testimony was well rehearsed prior. Not only between themselves but with their legal team. I can't imagine PD allowing his wife to offer any differing recollection of events other than that of his own

 

[Podcast Tragic]

John Pendergast who worked with Damian Loone on the case the late 1990s, is being questioned . The defence is inferring that he did not take statements from witnesses that supported CD's story. Also the defence is inferring that statements from the Dawson family were only taken to hopefully create phone conversations with CD whose phone was being tapped.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

I found it extremely interesting that PD and MD's testimony of that fateful Christmas weren't in agreeance. In fact they were the total opposite.

PD claimed the CD and LD's marriage was fine and dandy and he didn't recall CD & JC being at his house on Christmas Day.
MD's testimony on the other hand was the complete opposite. She conceded that they were having troubles in their marriage and that LD should have fought harder for her husband. She confirmed that CD & JC were not only at her house on Christmas Day but had use of her bed.

Surely all this testimony was well rehearsed prior. Not only between themselves but with their legal team. I can't imagine PD allowing his wife to offer any differing recollection of events other than that of his own

They probably had to be careful to be consistent with whatever each of them had said previously.

 

[Podcast Tragic]

Robert Silkman started his testimony today. It was revealed that he was friends with Paul Hayward (who also played at Newtown Jets). Paul Hayward's brother in law was Arthur "Neddy" Smith. So lots of potential there for criminal assistance!
Robert Silkman will continue his testimony tomorrow/Thursday.
It seems the witnesses who were declined were either from years well before Lyn's disappearance or were regarded as having no importance to the case. Agreed by both the Judge and the Crown/ as I read it!

 

[musicaljoke]

Robert Silkman started his testimony today. It was revealed that he was friends with Paul Hayward (who also played at Newtown Jets). Paul Hayward's brother in law was Arthur "Neddy" Smith. So lots of potential there for criminal assistance!
Robert Silkman will continue his testimony tomorrow/Thursday.
It seems the witnesses who were declined were either from years well before Lyn's disappearance or were regarded as having no importance to the case. Agreed by both the Judge and the Crown/ as I read it!

I had to look it up. From Wiki:

Arthur "Neddy" Smith spent much of the rest of his life in prison, serving sentences from 1963 to 1965, 1968 to 1975, 1978 to 1980,[1] and 1989 until his death.[2] Smith was a self-confessed heroin dealer, and armed robber, who gained notoriety for his violent temper.

Though Smith was charged with eight murders, he was convicted only of the murder of brothel owner Harvey Jones and the murder-in-company of a tow-truck driver named Ronnie Flavell during an incident of road rage on 30 October 1987.[4]

Neddy Smith - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[musicaljoke]

Chris Dawson murder trial calls star witness on 'hitman request'

A star witness who is expected to tell the Chris Dawson murder trial that the accused asked for help to kill his wife Lynette while the men were on a a 1975 footy trip has finally been called as a witness.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Called late on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Silkman began describing the Newtown Jets player he hung around with back then.

They included star halfback Paul Hayward, later a heroin trafficker caught by Thai police in 1978 and who later tragically died of a heroin overdose.

Asked by crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC who he mixed socially with in 1975, Mr Silkman said, Ray Lee, Pauly Hayward, Dave Oliveri ... and friends off that group'.

Dave Oliveri was a NSW police Officer who became the subject of an ICAC investigation and resigned from the force in disgrace in 1988, but was never charged.

On a 1975 game playbook of Newtown games against Canterbury Bankstown, one player listed was Doug Kemister, who had criminal underworld connections.

 

[musicaljoke]

Chris Dawson murder trial calls star witness on 'hitman request'

A star witness who is expected to tell the Chris Dawson murder trial that the accused asked for help to kill his wife Lynette while the men were on a a 1975 footy trip has finally been called as a witness.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Called late on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Silkman began describing the Newtown Jets player he hung around with back then.

They included star halfback Paul Hayward, later a heroin trafficker caught by Thai police in 1978 and who later tragically died of a heroin overdose.

Asked by crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC who he mixed socially with in 1975, Mr Silkman said, Ray Lee, Pauly Hayward, Dave Oliveri ... and friends off that group'.

Dave Oliveri was a NSW police Officer who became the subject of an ICAC investigation and resigned from the force in disgrace in 1988, but was never charged.

On a 1975 game playbook of Newtown games against Canterbury Bankstown, one player listed was Doug Kemister, who had criminal underworld connections.

The caption beneath one of the photos at this link reads, "The 1975 Newtown Jets team including Chris Dawson (not pictured), his twin Paul Dawson (back row, fourth from left) had colourful identities such as armed robber Gary Sullivan (front row second from left), drug trafficker Paul Hayward (back row, second from left), disgraced cop David Oliveri (back row, third from left) and alleged mob driver Doug Kemister (bottom right)."

 

[DRT]

Well if all the witnesses are related to CD its really not very unbiased. I mean the husband of his sister apparently saw LD??? Far out. MOO

Yet there are no witnesses from the nearby hospital to say I worked with a woman that looks exactly like Lyn Dawson including those glasses for 1 month in 1983 for 6 months for 2 years or however long she worked there. Surely if Lyn was working there because she wasn't hiding according to Ross Hutcheon. Her picture over the last few years has been everywhere. Surely people in their 70s or 80s read the Australian or listen to True Crime Podcasts.

I've mistaken people in the past. She was walking down the street and he was in a car.

 

[Via Marple]

Desperate times, desperate measures. Peter would have been coaching the clan extensively in the lead up to Chris' trial. All hands on deck and no excuse for not learning your lines.

Ahh.. That might be why he left the courtroom so often. Witness(es) waiting outside? MOO

 

[Via Marple]

Yet there are no witnesses from the nearby hospital to say I worked with a woman that looks exactly like Lyn Dawson including those glasses for 1 month in 1983 for 6 months for 2 years or however long she worked there. Surely if Lyn was working there because she wasn't hiding according to Ross Hutcheon. Her picture over the last few years has been everywhere. Surely people in their 70s or 80s read the Australian or listen to True Crime Podcasts.

I've mistaken people in the past. She was walking down the street and he was in a car.

I find it very interesting how the "ghost of Lyn" only appeared herself to CD' friends and family, but not hers. Surely they would want very much to see her too.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

I find it very interesting how the "ghost of Lyn" only appeared herself to CD' friends and family, but not hers. Surely they would want very much to see her too.

Impossible not to share your skepticism and it won't be lost on the judge.

 

[Trooper]

Impossible not to share your skepticism and it won't be lost on the judge.

I am keen to find out what the Judge discards, and what he takes on board. It's well known, no dispute about it . that strangling a woman is very nearly the last step to actually murdering her, and Dawson did this. Lynn had bruises. Lynn was, by anyone 's measurement, a battered beaten wife, and like so many women she hid it out of embarrassment, and fear.

Always thinking, oh he'll change, he doesn't mean it, ...

I mourn lynn, back then she was in the dark about what was being done to her, the coercive battering, the physical battering , the psychological battering. The isolation , the pressure to conform to Dawson's every mood and edict.

The judge will take on board Dawson's utter contempt and outrageous nerve to install Joanne in the family bosom to rattle Lynn, and to make Lynn doubt her own conclusions. He will see which way the wind was blowing for Lynn, probably more than any of us can, I reckon. He's seen them come and go, always with the same excuse......

 

[TootsieFootsie]

He's seen them come and go, always with the same excuse......

"See what YOU made me do"

A "man's" excuse.

 

[JLZ]

"See what YOU made me do"

A "man's" excuse.

"I hardly touched you. You bruise too easily."

 

[Trooper]

I wonder if Dawson will consider taking the stand to refute Silkman's testimony , that Dawson asked him if he could get rid of his wife for him.

I actually believe Silkman. I think Dawson was so caught up in his loathing for Lynn and his expectations that Joanne would rescue him, would make him young again, she would flatter him, be obedient, be compliant... if only it could happen soon !!.. I have no doubts in my mind that Dawson tried to fix his problem this way, because his brother would have told him what he'll be losing if he goes thru the courts in divorcing Lyn..

!/2 of everything, including custody, superannuation, weekly payments... to a man as mean as Dawson that must have been a far bigger terror than killing someone. It would kill him to give Lynn 1/2!!! Plus the Catholic thing, the loss of status.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

"I hardly touched you. You bruise too easily."

Must be true. Marilyn said.

 

[JLZ]

Must be true. Marilyn said.

Even the man who made that excuse to me never blamed it on my lack of muscle development.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

Witness says Dawson asked how to kill wife

A former rugby league player and convicted arsonist has claimed he was approached by Chris Dawson in 1975 about getting rid of his wife.

www.crikey.com.au

On a crowded flight from the Gold Coast in 1975, Christopher Michael Dawson asked one of his fellow rugby league players whether he knew someone who could get rid of his wife, a court has heard.

Giving evidence at Dawson’s murder trial on Thursday, Robert Charles Silkman said the conversation occurred after the Newtown Jets team had been on a short holiday on the Gold Coast.

“I was sitting there and it was Chris that came along and kneeled down to my level where I was sitting and asked me did I know anyone who could get rid of his wife,” he told the NSW Supreme Court.

After Dawson allegedly confirmed he meant getting rid of Lynette Dawson “for good”, Silkman said the pair would talk when they arrived in Sydney. The topic was not brought up again, he said.

Dawson’s barrister Pauline David raised questions about the credibility of Silkman’s evidence. Not only had Silkman used many aliases during his life, but he had been convicted for arson in 1993 and petty theft multiple times during the 1970s, the court heard.

Silkman denied burning down the home for insurance fraud, saying he had done it because his friend who owned the property owed him money.

The convicted criminal had a “loose relationship with the truth,” Ms David said.

“If you see a dollar in it, you will tell a lie,” she put to Silkman.

“That’s not correct,” he said.