GUILTY Australia - Lynette Dawson, 34, Sydney, Jan 1982 *Arrest* #4

[Cliff Hardy]

"It is in my view fanciful to suggest the calls, lacking in content and pregnant with cliche ever occurred."

Nice turn of phrase......unless you are a Dawson.

 

[drsleuth]

I'm liking what I am hearing

 

[they'll get you]

I'm liking what I am hearing

S**t yeah!

 

[Cliff Hardy]

Not going well for Chris Dawson, so far.

Hope you packed your toothbrush Chris.

 

[Trooper]

Not at all impressed with Dawson's bankcard evidence. Criticism of the police in investigating the bankcard stuff. Lynn, in his opinion, did not use her bankcard HERSELF .... oh dearie me..

Lynn did not drive, evidence given that presumes she was driving... he appears to be not impressed, or over impressed with the 'eye witnessess'..

 

[drsleuth]

Amelia Dunn

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Judge says he cannot accept Chris Dawson’s claim Lynette Dawson called him several times to tell him she ‘needed time away’. Saying Mr Dawson’s recollection of the conversations were “lacking in context and pregnant with cliches.”

 

[Trooper]

Not at all impressed with Detectives Prendergast and another who's name I missed.,

 

[drsleuth]

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Northbridge Baths phone call 'a lie'
By Freya Noble10:41
Justice Ian Harrison has told the court that Chris Dawson's claim he received a phone call from Lynette at the Northbridge Baths on January 9, 1982 is "a lie".
"The only evidence that Mr Dawson received a call from Lynette is from Mr Dawson," he said.
Justice Harrison went on to say he is not suggesting other witnesses who testified about who was working at the baths on the day of the supposed phone call were lying.
"No one apart from Mr Dawson has ever received a phone call from Lynette Dawson since she was last spoken to on Friday January 8, 1982," the judge said.
Justice Harrison said within the context of an emotional and stressful marriage breakdown: "I cannot accept that Lynette Dawson would merely have telephoned Mr Dawson to say that she needed more time."
He said it is his view "fanciful" to suggest such conversations "lacking in detail" ever occurred.
"It seems remarkable that a woman that was troubled enough to call... Did not feel the need to inform her husband when her final decision was reached."
Justice Harrison said it was concerning to him that Lyn never contacted anybody else besides Dawson.

 

[Trooper]

Neither Chris, nor Paul, nor Peter had enough clout to convince anyone to testify that Lynn rang them.. They persuaded people they may have seen Lynn, from a distance, close to home ( absurdly, considering she was supposed to be running away from home ) .... I find that significant. People were prepared to entertain the idea they may have seen her, but no one was going to say they spoke to her.

 

[K_i_w_i]

Satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Mr Hutcheon's account to the Police that he saw LD at Gladesville is false

 

[Trooper]

on a hippie commune in Byron Bay. Another of Lynns purported destination.,

Says the judge, the police had a fixed view on Dawson's story about his wife, and never considered any other proposal other than Lynn had run away ( this was just after the Marriage laws had changed, a lot of public shouting about women being able to run away without permission, lots of political hoo ha , on how women would be running amok all over the land )

 

[K_i_w_i]

Deleted - double post

 

[drsleuth]

Ruby Cornish
The judge has rejected Ross Hutcheon’s evidence that he saw Lynette Dawson outside the Gladesville Hospital after January 1982. #ChrisDawson
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[Trooper]

oooo Hutcheon's evidence a 'fabrication' Not often you hear a judge lay this opinion down about a witness.

 

[Cliff Hardy]

How much more 'evidence,' raised by the defence, is left to discredit?

Can't be much?

 

[they'll get you]

Be still my heart!

 

[Trooper]

The judge is methodically going thru each witness who claimed to have seen Lynn, mostly seem to be of the 'glimpse' variety, consequently, there is an air of wobbliness about it. This witness ,99 years old, a remarkably lucid woman, but the judge casts doubt, extremely frail evidence and so the judge casts it aside.

 

[K_i_w_i]

Not satisfied that the woman that Mrs McBay saw at the parade was LD

 

[drsleuth]

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Ruby Cornish

@rubycornish
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Judge says he is not satisfied Elva McBay saw Lynette Dawson at a Royal Parade in 1983. Says her evidence is “extremely frail” #ChrisDawson
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[Trooper]

another witness, Mr Breeze in hospital. said he saw Lynn standing at the nurses station. didn't have his glasses on. Didn't speak to her. Said he was certain, then said he may have been mistaken.