He was found guilty of murdering his wife 40 years ago. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SYDNEY - An Australian court on Tuesday found the former high school teacher who was the subject of the hit podcast"The Teacher's Pet" guilty of murdering his wife 40 years ago, after public attention triggered renewed interest in the case.
On Tuesday, Supreme Court judge Ian Harrison found Dawson deliberately killed his wife, Mrs Lynette Dawson, in January 1982 to pursue a relationship with a teenage student he was having an affair with, and who had babysat and lived in his Sydney home. Dawson's lawyer, Mr Greg Walsh, told reporters outside court that his client would appeal the conviction in the judge-only trial.
But the combination of small pieces of evidence, including inconsistencies in Dawson's defence, was persuasive and compelling, he said.
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