The Latest Breaking News from Lynette Dawson

A former police officer tells the murder trial of Chris Dawson he did not deliberately discard evidence from people he interviewed about possible sightings of Lynette Dawson after she went missing.

Chris Dawson's murder trial hears his first wife Lynette was seen outside a Sydney hospital up to six months after she disappeared from their northern beaches home in January 1982.

Two witnesses giving evidence in the Chris Dawson murder trial say his second wife shared suspicions that he had killed his first wife Lynette.

It's the first time the public has gained access to the 1991 police interview with Chris Dawson, in which he steadfastly confronts allegations he considered killing his wife.

The crown prosecutor in the murder trial of former teacher Chris Dawson has tested positive to COVID-19, delaying proceedings for seven days.

Lynette Dawson was scared of her husband and had a huge, horrible black eye years before she vanished, a co-worker and "astral traveller" has said.

Chris Dawson told police in a video interview the timing of allegations about his wife's disappearance came as he was facing a "nasty" custody battle with a woman known as JC, Sydney's Supreme Court hears.

Former Sydney teacher Chris Dawson was "very flirtatious" and "very vain" while interacting with a schoolgirl he would later marry, a close friend of the woman has told a court.

Chris Dawson's murder trial is told that, in the year before his wife Lynette went missing, she came home and found the family's 16-year-old babysitter naked in the pool.