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Lawson, a beneficiary, said he didn’t know exactly how much money there was and said he had given it to the woman, a sex worker, so she could count it. It was also a way of impressing her, he said.
Stuff He thought there was “about $50,000”, he said. He had receipts given to him by the donors, but they had all been stolen, he told the court. Under cross-examination by Crown lawyer Megan Mitchell, Lawson said he gave the money to the woman a few days before the police raid of her house. He’d never counted it because “at that time I was going through my cancer. Money wasn’t a worry to me then”.