Chris Dawson did not have a ‘relationship’ with school girl but molested her, murder trial hears

Friend of the girl, who Dawson later married, tells court it was molestation' and their interactions were weird

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Chris Dawson did not have a relationship" with the school girl he eventually married but rather allegedly molested the student when he was her teacher, his murder trial has been told.

A friend of the girl known as JC rejected claims by Dawson's solicitor Greg Walsh that his client and the then teenager had a relationship in 1980 and 1981 before JC had graduated.

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