Let us briefly explore ‘Robert Dawson Accused Of Brutally Beating His Wife To Death On Fiji Honeymoon’ Bradley Dawson, the Tennessee newlywed accused of killing his bride on their Fiji honeymoon, returned to court Tuesday for a bail hearing.
Robert Dawson Accused Of Brutally Beating His Wife To Death On Fiji Honeymoon
Lautoka High Court Judge Riyaz Hamza ordered him held with no bail. The judge also rejected Dawson’s two bail sponsors, who are locals that live in Fiji, because they did not provide any details on how they know Dawson.
Dawson, 38, has pleaded not guilty to the alleged murder of Christe Chen Dawson, 39, who Fiji police say was found brutally beaten to death in her room at the exclusive Turtle Island Resort on July 9. He arrived handcuffed in court wearing blue shorts, flip-flops, and a patterned tropical shirt Tuesday, or early Wednesday local time.
Speaking in the I-Taukei language, Dawson answered shouted questions outside the courthouse, telling reporters “Good morning” and that he was doing well.
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Bradley Dawson in handcuffs is escorted by Fijian police officers back to his cell block after the High Court in Lautoka dismissed his bail application. (Tim Tava for Fox News Digital)
Police discovered him at the time of his arrest carrying more than $1,000 in cash, along with his passport, driver’s license, and credit cards for both himself and his late wife.
The statements of Chen’s family attorney, who had earlier stated that she died of severe traumatic head injuries and various traumatic injuries to her body, were corroborated in court by prosecutors, who claimed that Chen experienced a “brain bleed” on July 9.
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Dawson has pleaded not guilty and his defense attorney Iqbal Khan is contesting unsigned statements Dawson made to police, known in Fiji as a “caution interview,” in which he allegedly confessed to killing Chen. After the interview, he declined to sign the document and, through his attorney, has maintained that he is innocent.
Judge Riyaz Hamza was expected to rule on the bail application, and another hearing was already set for Sept. 26 as prosecutors and the defense wrangle over the unsigned caution interview.
Bradley Dawson is escorted back to his cell after a judge denied his request for bail. Dawson is accused of murdering his wife while the newlyweds were on a luxury honeymoon (Tim Tava for Fox News Digital)
Prosecutor Alvin Singh and attorneys for Chen’s family had opposed bail for Dawson, who they argued is indeed a flight risk after he allegedly ditched his GPS watch and phone at the resort and fled with just his wallet and passport in the hours after Chen’s brutal beating death. Khan said the state is already in possession of Dawson’s passport, that he consented to surrender it and that he has no other passports or travel documents.
The medical examiner found “multiple blunt force injuries around her head and face,” Ronald Gordon, her family’s lawyer, previously told Fox News Digital. When her parents visited her in the morgue, he added, her mother “was inconsolable because of the injuries.”
A judge denied a Tennessee IT specialist bail as he stands accused of brutally beating his wife Christe Chen to death on their honeymoon in Fiji.
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According to authorities, Dawson and his wife appeared content the evening of the alleged argument, according to a woman who was vacationing at Turtle Island at the same time as the couple. According to the police complaint, the vacationer claimed that she later heard “heavy banging sounds” coming from the couple’s room.
After only a few months of dating, Dawson and Chen got married in February and moved into a new house in Memphis, but Gordon claimed Dawson had previously visited Fiji with an ex-wife just two years prior.
