The high-profile homicide trial of Chris Dawson has begun in Sydney's Supreme Court docket, greater than 40 years after his spouse Lynette disappeared.
Dawson, a former rugby league participant turned highschool trainer, is accused of killing the mother-of-two, who was final seen on Sydney's Northern Seashores in 1982.
He has pleaded not responsible.
The destiny of the 73-year-old now rests within the arms of Supreme Court docket Justice Ian Harrison.
Dawson has at all times denied having something to do with the suspicious disappearance, and though Lynette's physique has by no means been discovered, he was charged with homicide in 2018.
"I am wanting ahead to justice being served and the reality popping out within the subsequent few weeks," Dawson informed 9News on his approach from the Sunshine Coast yesterday.
Right now the choose was informed simply over six years earlier than Lynette vanished, Dawson was watching a broadcast of the Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier struggle within the Philippines together with his soccer teammates.
In accordance with the Crown Prosecutor he requested considered one of them "if he knew somebody who may eliminate his spouse".
Craig Everson SC argued the dialog did not go any additional till Dawson started an affair with a younger girl within the Eighties.
"He was infatuated together with her... he repeatedly requested her to marry him… He was motivated to kill his spouse by his want to have an unfettered relationship," Everson mentioned.
Lynette Dawson has not been seen or heard from for greater than 40 years.
Not lengthy after she went lacking, it is alleged Dawson informed his girlfriend "Lyn was gone and she or he would not be coming again".
It wasn't reported to police for six weeks and whereas there have been a number of sightings within the years that adopted, none of them have been confirmed, nor has her physique been discovered.
Dawson is the one individual that's ever been charged however right now the court docket heard there may have been others concerned within the alleged killing and the dumping of Lynette's stays.
The trial may run for as much as six weeks.