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Murderer and former rugby league star Chris Dawson has lost his bid to be released from prison after the state’s highest court dismissed his appeal against his conviction for killing his wife.
Now the former teacher, who was found to have killed his wife Lynette to be with a teenage student and his nanny, faces the prospect of dying in jail.
Dawson, 75, appeared before the Court of Criminal Appeal on Thursday when a three-judge panel dismissed his appeal after a three-day hearing in May.
Dawson was jailed in August 2022 for the murder of his wife, Lynette Simms, who disappeared without a trace from their Bayview home on Sydney’s northern beaches in January 1982.
In the days after her disappearance, Dawson moved his teenage lover, a former student and family nanny, into his Gilwinga Drive address.
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Murderer and former rugby league star Chris Dawson has lost his bid to be released from prison after the state’s highest court dismissed his appeal against his conviction for killing his wife.
