Chris Dawson’s former student tells court she wanted his missing wife to come back

Woman known as JC told Dawson's murder trial she felt obliged to move in with him and had wanted to return to her life as a 17-year-old

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Chris Dawson's former student and babysitter has admitted working on a book titled The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and His Wife, but denied it was because she wanted revenge.

Questioned by defence barrister Pauline David in the NSW supreme court on Friday, the woman known only as JC rejected the suggestion her claims she had been Dawson's sex slave were a good way to sell her book.

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