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Chris Dawson found guilty of murdering ex-wife Lynette in The Teacher’s Pet trial: as it happened

Former high school teacher Chris Dawson is found guilty of murdering his wife Lynette more than four decades after she was last seen on Sydney’s northern beaches. See how the day unfolded.

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Sydney news: Police release CCTV footage of dead man Hongli Qi, last seen in May in Sydney

MORNING BRIEFING: Detectives reveal CCTV footage of Hongli Qi's movements in May, after his decomposed body was found by council workers in bushland in the Hawkesbury.

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Chris Dawson awaits murder trial verdict, Britney Spears makes new conservatorship allegations, and NASA calls off moon rocket launch — as it happened

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Chris Dawson found guilty of wife's murder

A judge has found Chris Dawson murdered his wife Lyn 40 years ago, rejecting the possibility she abandoned her husband and children to vanish without a trace.

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Chris Dawson days away from verdict in Lynette Dawson murder trial

The former Sydney teacher's trial in the NSW Supreme Court this year was the culmination of years of questions and speculation about the whereabouts of his first wife, Lynette.

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Sydney Morning Herald caught in the Crikey crossfire as letter to Lachlan Murdoch knocked back

The SMH and Age refused to accept Crikey’s ad citing competition for subscriptions. Plus: Bolt gets behind Avi Yemini

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Judge to hand down verdict in Chris Dawson murder trial this month

Former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson is weeks away from learning the verdict in his murder trial for the alleged murder of his wife, Lynette.

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Ex police chief sworn in as WA governor

Former WA police commissioner Chris Dawson has become the state's 34th governor following a swearing-in ceremony in Perth.

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Former police commissioner Chris Dawson sworn in as 34th governor of Western Australia

After solving some of WA's most high-profile cases, including the Claremont serial killings and the disappearance of Cleo Smith, former police commissioner Chris Dawson has been appointed as the state's 34th governor.

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WA police officer Ben Falconer's fight against 'irrational' COVID-19 jab mandate goes to trial

WA police officer Ben Falconer and a radio operator are challenging the validity of the direction that they couldn't go to work if they weren't vaccinated against COVID.

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Forty years after Lynette vanished this Sydney mystery could soon have some answers

Forty years after former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson's wife vanished, a judge is considering whether it was due to a cunningly planned murder, or a mother's decision to abandon her family.

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Chris Dawson told his murder verdict will be handed down 'relatively quickly'

The judge presiding over Chris Dawson's trial says he will deliver his decision on whether the former school teacher killed his wife Lynette "relatively quickly" — but it won't be tomorrow.

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Chris Dawson still loved his wife Lynette while in 'relationship' with babysitter, murder trial told

Former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson continued to love his wife before she vanished while also having a "relationship" with the family's teenage babysitter, a judge is told.

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Dawson loved wife and mistress, court told

Chris Dawson could simultaneously love his wife and the teenage lover with whom he was having an affair, his murder trial has been told.

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Dawson allegations 'tailored' by lover

Evidence against Chris Dawson used in his murder trial had been tailored by his spurned teenage lover to create further suspicions, a judge has heard.

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Chris Dawson murder trial hears theory that wife Lynette may have died at sea

Chris Dawson's lawyer tells a judge her client's first wife may have abandoned her family and subsequently met with misadventure, evoking the disappearance of former prime minister Harold Holt.

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Dawson argues murder case 'nonsensical'

Chris Dawson's barrister has attacked murder allegations brought against him as nonsensical and extraordinary as she argues his innocence.

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Chris Dawson used 'window of quiet seclusion' to dispose of murdered wife's body, court told

A court is told former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson allegedly used an "engineered window of quiet seclusion" to dispose of his murdered wife's body after four separate plans to leave her failed.

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Lyn Dawson set husband up, court told

Lynette Dawson deliberately left home without taking any belongings to make it look like she was killed by her husband, a court has heard.

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Journalist Hedley Thomas could have made inappropriate commentary about Lynette Dawson's disappearance, court hears

Chris Dawson's barrister accuses the journalist behind the Teacher's Pet podcast of providing inappropriate media commentary about the case in contempt of the Supreme Court.

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Murder mural painted against Chris Dawson

Crown prosecutors have described how bruises seen on Lyn Dawson before she disappeared were one piece of a larger picture showing she was killed by her husband.

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Creator of Teacher's Pet podcast tells court he thought it 'likely' Chris Dawson murdered his wife

Journalist Hedley Thomas tells a court he thought it was "likely" Chris Dawson was a murderer, but that his own opinions did not form part of his podcast, which has been downloaded about 60 million times.

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