Accounts of bruising on Lynette Dawson part of bigger picture showing she was murdered, prosecution alleges

Evidence of bruising could lead court to find she had been killed instead of having left home, prosecution tells Chris Dawson trial

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Witness accounts that Lynette Dawson was seen bruised before she vanished in January 1982 were small pieces of a larger picture showing she was murdered by her husband, prosecutors have told a court.

As the murder trial against Christopher Michael Dawson, 73, enters its closing phase, crown prosecutor Craig Everson SC said that evidence of the bruising could lead the NSW supreme court to find Lynette Dawson had been killed instead of having left home.

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