Neighbour tells Sydney court ‘I do believe Chris Dawson murdered his wife’

Friend tells court that Lynette Dawson, who Chris Dawson denies killing in 1982, knew her husband was sleeping with their babysitter

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A key prosecution witness in Chris Dawson's murder trial has told a Sydney court she believes he killed his wife and has denied shaping her evidence to become an indispensable part of the Teacher's Pet podcast about the case.

Julie Andrew, a friend and neighbour of mother of two Lynette Dawson, told the NSW supreme court on Monday she had seen Dawson standing over his crying wife, screaming at her and shaking her shoulders in the back yard of their Bayview home in late 1981 - weeks before she disappeared.

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