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After allegedly bludgeoning his spouse and leaving her for lifeless on the lavatory flooring of their luxurious Fiji lodge room, Bradley Robert Dawson apparently thought it greatest to flee by way of kayak.
Nevertheless, police discovered him three days in a while Matacawalevu Island, a close-by island, the place he informed an area stated he got here to in an effort to flee from an argument together with his spouse Christe Chen Dawson, 39, the native witness informed the Each day Mail.
Dawson, 38, from Tennessee, is now locked away in a Fiji jail cell charged with homicide. Nonetheless, his lawyer maintains that a conviction is unlikely.
Iqbal Khan, Dawson’s lawyer informed the Each day Mail that Dawson wouldn’t discuss to him for a number of days after Chen was killed.
“On the proof that they've introduced to date, there’s no proof of the cost of homicide with intention to kill or premeditation. Nothing of that kind in anyway,” Khan stated. “On the face of it, it appears to be like like an accident however I will affirm that when I get the complete disclosure subsequent week and get in entrance of different witnesses.”
Dawson, an IT employee for a nonprofit, and Chen, a pharmacist, married in small ceremony in Memphis on Feb. 18 after what one good friend informed The Each day Beast was a “whirlwind romance.” Most of Chen’s pals had by no means met Dawson till the marriage.
They delayed their honeymoon till July, reserving a room on the $3,500-a-night Turtle Island Resort, which served as the situation for the 1980 Brooke Shields movie Blue Lagoon.
Nevertheless Chen died on July 9 of blunt drive trauma to the pinnacle and different traumatic accidents, in accordance with a autopsy report cited by the Mail. Nameless sources informed the outlet that their private butler on the upscale Turtle Island Resort, the place rooms go for $3,500-a-night, discovered Chen on the lavatory flooring after the 2 didn’t present up for breakfast or lunch that day, utilizing a spare key to open the door regardless of a “Do Not Disturb” signal.
Manoa Ratulele informed the Mail he discovered Dawson on Matacawalevu island he fled to bruised and bleeding from his palms, smelling of alcohol. Dawson repeatedly stated that he had a struggle together with his spouse, not providing a lot info, later asking to name the police, Ratuele stated.
“There isn't any approach he will be convicted of homicide,” Khan stated. “No approach. Full cease.”
Dawson’s subsequent courtroom look might be July 27.