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Teacher's Pet podcast scrubbed from Australian sites ahead of murder trial
Chris Dawson to be trialed for murder of wife Lynette after she vanished in 1982
The Australian announced it would remove podcast to not prejudice the case
Editor-in-chief Christopher Dore said paper is 'committed to ensuring fair trial'

By Aidan Wondracz For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 20:02 EDT, 5 April 2019 | Updated: 20:14 EDT, 5 April 2019

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Popular podcast The Teacher's Pet has been taken offline ahead of Chris Dawson's trial for the murder of his wife.

On Friday The Australian, which published the podcast, announced it would temporarily remove the audio series from Australian sites to avoid prejudicing the trial.

'The Australian is committed to ensuring a fair trial for Mr Dawson,' the newspaper's editor-in-chief Christopher Dore said.

'He is entitled to the presumption of innocence just like any Australian facing a criminal trial.'

The podcast will still be accessible overseas, the publication said.

Popular podcast The Teacher's Pet has been taken offline ahead of Chris Dawson's trial for the murder of his wife

Husband and former rugby league star Chris Dawson, 70, was arrested at his Gold Coast property in December last year and extradited to NSW to be charged over her murder (pictured, Dawson outside Downing Centre Court in February)

Teacher's Pet is a true-crime podcast that has been downloaded more than 28 million times and was number one in Australia for several weeks.

The popular series investigates the mysterious disappearance of Lynette Dawson from Sydney's northern beaches in 1982.

Husband and former rugby league star Chris Dawson, 70, was arrested at his Gold Coast property in December last year and extradited to NSW to be charged over her murder.

Dawson has been given bail and has repeatedly denied the allegations ahead of the murder trial.

The NSW director of public prosecutions sent a letter to The Australian requesting it remove all 16 episodes of the popular podcast.

'We’ve decided to restrict access to the podcast as we let justice run its course, but will continue to monitor the case and will put it online as soon as we can,' Mr Dore said.

Audio series host and journalist Hedley Thomas released a Special Update Episode following the announcement to back up the 'appropriate' decision.

'But the expert advice we’ve received is that it is the appropriate thing to help ensure that Chris Dawson gets a fair trial, whenever that may be,' Thomas said.

'This is vitally important to him — and for the criminal justice system.'

The NSW director of public prosecutions sent a letter to The Australian requesting it remove all 16 episodes of the popular podcast (pictured, Lynette Dawson with daughter Shanelle and husband Chris)

WHAT HAPPENED TO MISSING MOTHER-OF-TWO LYN DAWSON?

1970: Lynette Joy Simms marries footballer Christopher Michael Dawson. They are both 21 and later have two daughters, first Shanelle and then Sherryn

1980: Mr Dawson, who retired from playing rugby league to become a PE teacher, starts affair with 16-year-old pupil Joanne Curtis at Cromer High School on Sydney's northern beaches

1981: Mr Dawson persuades Mrs Dawson to let Joanne move in to their home to get away from her violent stepfather and finish her Higher School Certificate

December 1981: Mr Dawson and his young lover run away together to Queensland but Ms Curtis changes her mind and they return to Sydney

January 8, 1982: Mrs and Mrs Dawson go to marriage counselling. Mrs Dawson's mother speaks to her daughter, who is not a big drinker, on the telephone and thinks she sounds 'sozzled'.

January 9, 1982: Mr Dawson says he dropped his wife at a Mona Vale bus stop so she could go shopping at Chatswood. Mrs Dawson fails to turn up to meet her mother, husband and children at Northbridge Baths. Mr Dawson says his wife rang him and said she needed some time to herself

January 10 or 11, 1982: Mr Dawson picks up Joanne from South West Rocks on the mid north coast of NSW and she moves into his home. He reports his wife missing six weeks later.

1983-85: Mr Dawson divorces his missing wife and marries Joanne. The newlyweds move to Queensland where Joanne has the couple's daughter Kristen

1990: Mr Dawson and Joanne split up. She moves back to Sydney and urges police to search his old garden for a body

2000: Mrs Dawson's pink cardigan is found during a police dig on the family's former property at Bayview

2001 and 2003: Two coroners find that Mrs Dawson was murdered by a 'known person' - Chris Dawson - but he is not charged with any offence

2006: An episode of the British TV series Antiques Roadshow is filmed in Padstow, Cornwall. Mr Dawson later claims a woman seen in the background of the episode could be his missing wife

2018: Police prepare another brief for the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions. The Australian launches its podcast, The Teacher's Pet, about the case

December 5, 2018: Queensland Police arrest Chris Dawson at the home of his twin brother. He is expected to be extradited to NSW and charged with Lyn's murder.