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Wife-killer Dawson’s desperate bid

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Ex-teacher Chris Dawson claims it was “unreasonable” for a judge to find him guilty of murdering his wife Lynette Simms, a court has been told, as he launched his bid to be freed from jail.

Dawson, 75, will appear before the state’s highest court – the Court of Appeal – in May next year in an attempt to have his murder conviction quashed.

Ms Simms disappeared in January 1982 – her body has never been found and she never contacted her friends or family, including her two children.Dawson was sentenced to 24 years in prison. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Vincent de Gouw During his judgment last year, Justice Harrison said the case against Dawson was circumstantial, however noted a guilty verdict was the only “rational inference” he could draw from the circumstances.

He was convicted of murdering his wife Lynette, who disappeared from their Bayview home. Picture: Supplied

 

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