Chris Dawson to face trial in 2022 for allegedly murdering his wife
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Chris Dawson will face trial next year accused of murdering his wife Lynette, who vanished from Sydney’s northern beaches almost 40 years ago.
Mr Dawson, 72, is accused of murdering Lynette Dawson at Bayview in January 1982. He has pleaded not guilty.
Chris Dawson leaves court in 2020.
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Charges were laid in 2018, following the publication of a high-profile podcast which cannot be named for legal reasons.
On Friday, Justice Robert Allan Hulme set the case down for trial in May 2022, noting he was mindful of “the age of this matter” and a number of other aspects of the case. The trial is estimated to run for eight weeks.
Australian man Chris Dawson to face trial in 2022 for allegedly murdering his wife
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The Dragons forward was excused from appearing. I want to know how it is that the decision ⦠seems to have come to the attention of the press, but not the court first, Judge Yehia said. Charges against Callan Sinclair were also dropped. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard I am not pleased as to how this was leaked to the press. It is a discourtesy to this court to have it leaked to the press before proceedings have taken place in this court. Judge Yehia told the court she did not have time to investigate how the leak happened. Crown Prosecutor Craig Everson told the court Director of Public Prosecutions Lloyd Babb SC did not leak the information.
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A judge has asked how journalists were informed that Jack de Belin’s sexual assault case would be withdrawn before a court was notified, telling lawyers that she is not pleased and noting court proceedings are not run by the media.
Prosecutors formally withdrew four sexual assault charges against Mr de Belin on Friday, a day after lawyers confirmed the case would not proceed to a third trial.
Jack de Belin leaves Downing Centre Court on May 10 after his second trial ended in a hung jury.
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Mr de Belin, 30, and his friend Callan Sinclair, 24, faced two trials in the NSW District Court on five counts each of aggravated sexual assault after they were accused of assaulting a crying woman at a North Wollongong unit in the early hours of December 9, 2018.
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