Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was talking to an old mate the other week, and the subject of women, wanking and porn came up, as it does on wet days when half the meetings are washed out and there are long waits between races, and the ones in between are shit. Being two in the afternoon on the 34th […]
Judge Harrison rejects the proposition that Dawson might have killed his wife because he wanted to keep the property and the cash. He did it for his Pet. The Teacher’s Pet. Joanne Curtis. Chris Dawson killed Lynette so that he could share his life with a teenage girl. Dawson killed her on the evening of […]
Dawson lied. He has lied for 40 years. The only reason he would lie is because he was afraid of the truth. That truth being that he murdered his wife. It’s over. Chris Dawson will never see anything ever again but the inside of a concrete jail cell, a little tent of blue that prisoners […]
Dawson was madly infatuated with Joanne Curtis, the Judge says. Then he makes a rare – uncharacteristic – slip up. Harrison J. says that Joanne Curtis flew to South West Rocks. She couldn’t have. There is no airport though. It doesn’t really matter, because of what the Judge says next. He says that being separated […]
It’s money time. If Chris Dawson killed his wife Lyn, how did he do it? The Crown case is that Dawson killed Lyn sometime between 9.00pm on the 8th of January and midday the next day, the 9th of January 1982. Whether or not Justice Harrison believes it is the most important question Chris Dawson […]
This judgement is like a movie. One of the thriller kind. It rocks and rolls, it bends turns and twists, and the ending is real hard to read. Dawson looks gone to the world. But little things keep emerging that throw up hope for him. They are not strong. But a drowning man will grab […]
Harrison J shows that he is a fair man by slamming the evidence of one of the witnesses as irrevocably tainted by the influence of Hedley Thomas. Then he moves on to the Sixty Minutes interview in which Thomas describes Chris Dawson as a bad, bad man. And a murderer. The Judge says that some […]
We move to The Teacher’s Pet. Judge Harrison deals with the role that the podcast series had to play in the matter. It didn’t change anything from an evidential purpose he basically finds. No more so than a police interview would. Some police witnesses are good, some are bad. Some hate the target of investigations, […]
One of Chris Dawson’s defence team’s main arguments has been that the cops decided that he was guilty a long time ago, and refused to accept any other possibility, thus tainting the (belated) investigation into Lyn Dawson’s death. Judge Harrison swats that proposition away like a fly. Even if the police were biased against Dawson, […]
