![]() ![]() After Dawson was arrested another three episodes were made. It was produced by Gibson, a former guitarist for Savage Garden. It had already reached No 1 in the podcast charts in Australia, the UK, Canada and New Zealand.įirst published between May and August 2018, the 14-part podcast was reported and narrated by the Queensland-based Thomas, already an award-winning investigative reporter for the Murdoch broadsheet. In April 2019, on advice from the Office of the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions, and in the interests of a fair trial, the Australian removed the podcast from all platforms. Thomas had by then struck a deal for a miniseries of the Teacher’s Pet with Jason Blum’s American production company Blumhouse. When Dawson was charged in December 2018 the then New South Wales police commissioner Mick Fuller sent an email to Thomas saying “you must be pretty happy mate?”, according to an earlier decision in the case by Justice Elizabeth Fullerton. “Lynette Dawson was missing for eight years and just treated as a runaway mother for that time when the circumstances were so gravely suspicious,” Thomas said. ![]() Speaking outside court on Tuesday, Thomas said Dawson should have been charged 40 years ago but the system at the time had failed Lynette. ![]() Harrison said listening to tapes of her unedited interview “did not alter my view that her description of the trampoline incident was credible and reliable”. ![]() Of one witness who was interviewed by Thomas, Harrison said: “I am unable with any confidence, having listened to the extracts of her lengthy, taped conversations with him, to know what part of her evidence comes from what Hedley Thomas told her, and what part of her evidence comes from what she remembered.”īut another witness who took part in the podcast, Julie Andrews, was found to be “reliable and credible”. He said it was probable, if not certain, that The Teacher’s Pet podcast “may in whole or in part have completely deprived some evidence of its usefulness”. New South Wales supreme court Justice Ian Harrison referred multiple times to Thomas’s podcast, in particular to the cross-over between the evidence given in court and the interviews those same witnesses had earlier given to Thomas. ![]()
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