“He really treated them like outcasts at home,” Paul Dawson said.
Police say Dawson had something to do with the alleged murder of his wife was absurd, he said.
“You’re not the kind of person to do that. Everyone who knows you knows that,” he was told in 1999.
Media reports that his brother was violent were outrageous because he was the least violent person he had ever met, Paul Dawson said.
JC’s description of the Gold Coast home where he lived after marrying Dawson as a “compound” was laughable, he said.
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He also rejected claims that his wife Marilyn Dawson had been seen practicing how to falsify Lynette Dawson’s signature after disappearing as “complete and utter rubbish.” The court previously learned that the signature was forged in a life insurance policy taken out under the name of Lynette Dawson.
He told the court that he did not question Lynette Dawson moving away from the marriage because her brother had done the same in December 1981, when he had driven north to Queensland with JC.
After his wife disappeared, Dawson drove to the central coast several times to look for her, according to the court.
Paul Dawson admitted that he was not in favor of his brother’s relationship with JC when they started dating in late 1981.
Lynette Dawson was a good mother, but she was not too affectionate with her children, she said. She felt that they did not need her as much as the children she cared for as a nurse and babysitter, because her husband was practical and would take care of most of the motherhood and fatherhood.
The trial continues.
AAP
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