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Mrs Dawson fails to turn up to meet her mother, husband and children at Northbridge Baths. January 9, 1982: Mr Dawson says he dropped his wife at a Mona Vale bus stop so she could go shopping at Chatswood. Mrs Dawson's mother speaks to her daughter, who is not a big drinker, on the telephone and thinks she sounds 'sozzled'. January 8, 1982: Mrs and Mrs Dawson go to marriage counselling. They are both 21 and later have two daughters, first Shanelle and then Sherrynġ980: Mr Dawson, who retired from playing rugby league to become a PE teacher, starts affair with 16-year-old pupil Joanne Curtis at Cromer High School on Sydney's northern beachesġ981: Mr Dawson persuades Mrs Dawson to let Joanne move in to their home to get away from her violent stepfather and finish her Higher School Certificateĭecember 1981: Mr Dawson and his young lover run away together to Queensland but Ms Curtis changes her mind and they return to Sydney

The coroner heard in 2003 that the pair went to Paul and Marilyn's place then spent Christmas Eve sleeping in the gym at Forest High School, where Paul taught.Ĭhris Dawson then returned to his wife and the couple arranged marriage counselling.ġ970: Lynette Joy Simms marries footballer Christopher Michael Dawson. On December 23 the teacher and his now former student began driving to Queensland but Joanne fell ill near Murwillumbah just south of the border and the couple returned. The schoolgirl then moved in with Paul and Marilyn Dawson and their three daughters several few hundred metres down the road but that arrangement did not last either. and said to me, 'You've been taking liberties with my husband,' Joanne told a coroner in 2003. The cardigan was found near the poolĬhris was booked into hospital from November 2 to 6 for a nose operation and asked his wife not to visit but her mother did. Lyn Dawson's favourite pink cardigan (pictured) was found when police conducted a small dig at the former Dawson family home at Bayview in 2000.

The same coroner heard that Chris would supply Lyn - who was not a regular drinker - with alcohol and he would have sex with Joanne when his wife fell asleep. Just singing songs that were to wear her down, just upset her.' 'He was very cold and used to sing songs to her that had double meanings, that he didn't care about her and that she was physically unattractive,' she said. In 2003 Joanne would tell a coroner that while she lived under the Dawson family roof her older lover would chip away at his wife's confidence. 'It was clear that Lynette didn't think that having me there would be a good thing for their relationship,' Joanne told police 16 years later.ĭespite that discomfort, Joanne told police Mrs Dawson treated her 'really well. Joanne - who had a troubled home life with a violent stepfather - told police that in October 1981, while she was studying for her Higher School Certificate, Chris Dawson invited her to move into his family home. The brothers have lived near each other all their lives Joanne soon became babysitter to the Dawsons' two daughters, Shanelle and Sherryn, often staying the night in their home.Ĭhris Dawson was 32 when he began having sex with the 16-year-old.Ĭhris and Paul Dawson lived just a few hundred metres from each other in Gilwinga Drive, Bayview, in the early to mid 1980s. The following year he became her teacher and confidant.

Both couples used the same builder to construct impressive homes.įor some years the Dawsons' lives must have seemed idyllic to outsiders but by the time Joanne Curtis was dragged into their world things were going seriously wrong.Ĭhris Dawson became a physical education teacher at Cromer High School in 1979 when Joanne was a student in Year 10. The Dawsons chose the land in Gilwinga Drive about the same time as Paul and his wife Marilyn bought in the same street. The whole saga centres on - and perhaps will be concluded - on a parcel of land Chris and Lyn Dawson bought at Bayview, about 30km north of Sydney's central business district, in 1976. The outdoor living area pictured above looks out over the swimming pool The property once owned by Chris and Lyn Dawson in Gilwinga Drive, Bayview, last traded for $2.4million.