‘She felt she could trust him’: Chris Dawson trial lays bare his chilling pursuit of teen girl

Chris Dawson’s pursuit of JC began while he was a teacher and she a student at Cromer high school, less than two years before Lynette Dawson’s disappearance. Photograph: Dean Lewins/EPA

Christopher Dawson first noticed the teenage girl in the playground at Cromer high school on Sydney’s northern beaches.

According to evidence that the girl known as JC gave to the NSW supreme court, Dawson later told her that after this sighting he decided he wanted to know her better because of how attractive she was.