Virtually 40 years after killing his spouse Lynette and disposing of her physique, Sydney schoolteacher Chris Dawson can be sentenced to what may very well be a long time in jail.
Justice Ian Harrison is ready to conclude a four-decade-long look forward to Lynette's household on Friday, handing down his sentence on the convicted wife-killer within the NSW Supreme Courtroom.
The choice comes greater than 13 weeks after the decide discovered the 74-year-old responsible of homicide and three weeks after his brother-in-law referred to as him a "conniving monster" throughout a sentence listening to.
Dawson was discovered responsible of murdering his spouse in January 1982 to have an unfettered relationship with a highschool scholar who was additionally his babysitter, referred to as JC.
Through the sentence listening to, crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC mentioned Dawson had deliberate a "deliberate and aware act" of home violence with an intention to kill.
He mentioned against the law of "very nice heinousness" required a time period of life imprisonment.
Dawson's lawyer Greg Walsh disputed claims the crime was on the excessive finish by way of goal seriousness.
Walsh mentioned the previous Newtown Jets rugby league participant had already suffered below the "most fixed and egregious publicity" for 4 a long time.
His well being was additionally deteriorating, the court docket heard, with Dawson displaying indicators of continual traumatic encephalopathy, a mind situation usually skilled by those that play contact sports activities.
Dawson has filed an enchantment of his conviction.