The brothers of convicted murderer Chris Dawson have clashed with media outside the court where their brother received his guilty verdict.
NSW Supreme Court Justice Ian Harrison found the 74-year-old former Rugby player guilty of murdering his wife Lynette in January 1982, bringing the high-profile trial to an end.
Lynette was 33 when she vanished from the family’s Bayview home, and her body has never been found. Dawson pleaded not guilty during the trial and has maintained his innocence.
With emotions running high in the wake of the verdict, Dawson’s brothers were seen getting into a scuffle with the media, prompting police to intervene when one brother appeared to nudge a cameraman.
“That’s my wife,” one of the brothers said.
“I’m trying to get to my wife.”
Following the scuffle, members of the media continued to follow the family, though a police officer shielded the woman from them and kept a hand on her back.
The brother then hugged his wife, who appeared to be crying, distressed and emotional.
No arrests were made as a result of the incident.
JC, the family’s teenage babysitter who Dawson married in the years following Lynette’s disappearance, played a significant role in the trial, with Justice Harrison finding that Dawson was obsessed with her when they met while he was a teacher at her high school.
The couple built a home near Dawson’s twin brother Paul and his wife Marilyn, three years after Lynette’s disappearance, and had a daughter.
The couple split five years later.
Dawson’s third wife, Susan, didn’t accompany him to court.
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