Chris Dawson told woman wife was living in Blue Mountains commune two decades after disappearance, court hears

Witness says she thought Dawson twins' behaviour was creepy' at living wake in 2007 because of the way they sat so close together

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At a living wake for a family friend, Christopher Michael Dawson said his wife was living in a commune west of Sydney more than 25 years after she disappeared, a judge has been told.

Giving evidence at Dawson's murder trial on Monday, a woman said she bumped into twin brothers Chris and Paul Dawson at a wake for Phillip Day who was sick with cancer and died in 2007.

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