A Tennessee man was convicted of beating his newlywed spouse to dying inside a Fiji-exclusive island luxurious resort because the newlywed couple have been on their honeymoon.
Bradley Robert Dawson, 40, was discovered responsible by the Excessive Court docket in Lautoka on Thursday for the dying of his bride Christe Chen Dawson after officers consider he tried to flee the island nation, her household confirmed to WREG.
Christe Chen Dawson, 36, was discovered mendacity in a pool of blood with a number of traumatic accidents together with blunt power trauma to the top inside her bungalow on the Turtle Island Resort on July 9, 2022
Christe Chen Dawson’s physique was so badly overwhelmed that her physique couldn’t be flown again to the US. As a substitute, her household had her cremated and her stays have been introduced again to her mother and father in Memphis.
The couple, who married in Feb. 2022, have been having a heated argument the evening earlier than the homicide, the Every day Mail reported on the time.
Nevertheless, Dawson’s legal professional Iqbal Khan informed the outlet that regardless of ugly stories of her dying, “there is no way he can be convicted of murder.”
“On the evidence that they have presented so far, there’s no proof of the charge of murder with intention to kill or premeditation. Nothing of that sort whatsoever,” he stated. “On the face of it, it looks like an accident.”
Bradley Dawson, then 38, was not discovered till a day after his spouse’s dying after he kayaked to a distant island a mile away from the resort.
Dawson was carrying a number of gadgets together with his passport and different private belongings when officers captured the groom.
As a result of he was carrying his passport, Excessive Court docket Justice Riyaz Hamza believed Dawson had meant to flee the nation after committing the heinous homicide, the Fiji Instances reported.
He pleaded not responsible to homicide expenses and claimed his spouse’s dying was an accident.
On the time of his seize, Dawson was suspended from his place on the nonprofit, Youth Villages, the place he labored within the IT division.
Hamza dominated Thursday that he believed past an affordable doubt that Dawson was the only individual concerned in his spouse’s homicide.
“For the aforesaid reasons I am of the opinion that the defense’s version cannot be believed and the same version is rejected,” he stated, in response to the outlet. “Having analyzed all of the proof in its totality, I’m of the opinion that the prosecution witnesses have been all truthful, credible and dependable of their testimony.
“From the totality of the evidence I am satisfied that the prosecution has disapproved the defense of provocation,” Hamza added. “Having considered all the evidence in its totality, I am of the opinion that the prosecution has proved the charge of murder against the accused beyond reasonable doubt.”
Christe Chen Dawson, a current graduate from the College of Tennessee Well being Science Middle was working as a pharmacist at Kroger when she was killed.
The convicted assassin will stay in custody till his sentencing listening to on Jan. 27, 2025.
