The observation lasted between five and ten seconds, he was wearing a nurse’s uniform about three meters away and no words were exchanged. He said he wore large, round glasses and his hair “above his shoulders and a little below his jaw.”
Breese was “pretty good off” after her rhinoplasty and didn’t see anyone who thought she was Lynette that first night. At one point during his stay, his wife called after work and told him about his vision, to which he replied that he had seen Lynette the night before.
Peter Breese left Downing Center Court in February 2020. Credit: James Alcock
Asked by Crown Attorney Craig Everson, SC, when he told someone other than his wife about the sighting, Breese said he didn’t remember, but the couple “didn’t know she was missing.”
“It wasn’t a big deal for family discussions either. It was just, ‘I saw her, yes, I saw her the other night,'” the end of the story, “she said.
Under the questioning of Dawson’s attorney, Greg Walsh, Breese admitted that there was a possibility that he had confused her with someone else, but said she was “absolutely sure” and that “she had no doubt. that was her. “
“It was short, but it stuck in my mind because someone comes in the door, they’re there for a reason,” he said. “Then look at them, they literally turn on their heels, they turn very fast and they leave and they never come back.”
Breese said that between 1986 and 1988 the couple saw an article about Lynette in the missing person column of the Manly Daily with a number for Mona Vale police, and his wife called the next day.
“[A] the officer called her and said she had spoken to the detective and Lynette Dawson was under the pool, “Breese recalled.” Very briefly and just hung up. “
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He said his wife could not testify Friday because she was ill. His one-hour testimony, recorded at Dawson’s engagement hearing in February 2020, was presented in court.
Jill Breese said she had recognized a nurse who worked at the hospital as Lynette Dawson. When asked if he could be wrong, he replied, “I don’t think I was wrong, but it’s a possibility, isn’t it?”
She recalled being shocked by the “abrupt” police comment when she was allegedly told that detectives “believe it is [Lynette’s] under the pool ”in Bayview.
“That’s what he said, and then we ended the call,” he said.
He said the Dawsons pool was already built when they once visited the house while Lynette was there.
Chris Dawson claims that Lynette made several calls from January 9, 1982 to tell her that she “needed time out.” He reported his disappearance on February 18 of that year. His trial alone before Judge Ian Harrison continues.
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