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First fox: A Tennessee man charged with murdering his bride during their honeymoon at a luxury Fiji resort returned to court on Wednesday, with his attorneys detailing health concerns and his mother’s financial dependence on him. requested the judge to grant bail based on
Bradley Dawson, 38, was charged with murder after Fiji police found his wife, 39-year-old Christe Cheng, brutally beaten to death in a cottage at Turtle Island Resort in July. it was done. The movie “Blue Lagoon” was filmed here. When he was arrested, police found over $1,000 in cash in his wallet, passport, driver’s license, and credit cards of himself and his late wife.
Prosecutors said Chen suffered a “cerebral hemorrhage” on July 9, confirming Chen’s family lawyer’s claims in court.
Dawson pleaded not guilty and his defense attorney, Iqbal Khan, disputes an unsigned statement Dawson made to the police. claimed innocence through
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But Khan told the judge that Dawson “has a strong defense case,” noting that his client has no criminal record in Fiji or any other country.
Dawson was photographed walking onto the court in a short-sleeved button-down shirt and blue shorts. This is different from the red shirt he wore in his two previous court appearances before the Lautoka High Court.
Judge Riyaz Hamza is scheduled to rule on the bail application on Sept. 14, and another hearing is scheduled for Sept. 26, with prosecutors and defense battling over an unsigned cautionary meeting.
Prosecutor Alvin Singh and the Chen family’s lawyers opposed Dawson’s bail, claiming he ditched his GPS watch and cell phone at the resort and fled with only his wallet and passport. Khan said the state already had Dawson’s passport, which he agreed to give up, and that he had no other passports or travel documents.
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Her family’s attorney, Ronald Gordon, previously told Fox News Digital that the coroner found “multiple blunt force trauma around her head and face.” He added that her mother was “inconsolable because of her injuries” when she visited her in
The bail application states that Dawson “is in poor health and has been prescribed certain medications and must consult a physician for advice on medications.” Khan claimed that with the bail, Dawson could call a doctor or talk to her mother.
The application states that Dawson lives in “Middletown” New York, rather than the house in Tennessee that he shared with Chen, and is an IT specialist at a Memphis-based nonprofit Youth Village. Employment as a home is listed.
Khan also argued that the trial may not begin until 2024 at the latest, and that holding him without bail until then “would be a grave miscarriage of justice.”
Khan said that if released on bail, Dawson would agree to stay with an American family friend at Regga Elga in Nadi.
Singh said in court that an American family friend of Dawson’s is currently facing sex crime charges, and that two “guarantors” or sponsors of his bail application were only loosely related to the defendant. and said she only met him on the day of Chen’s alleged murder.
“We have evidence to believe that the applicant fled the resort by kayak on the night of July 9 and was arrested on July 10 on a nearby island called Matakawarevu,” Singh told the judge. It’s “just a stone’s throw away” from the resort, with the open sea in between.
The morning after the crime, local resident Manoa Latulere found Dawson in Matakawalevu. He told Fox News Digital that the first thing Dawson told him when he found him on the beach was “call the police.”
Dawson was wearing a brown T-shirt and shorts and looked disheveled.
“He looked like he had just woken up,” said Latourelle.
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A woman who was staying at Turtle Island at the same time as the couple said Dawson and his wife seemed happy the night of the fight, according to police reports. He said he heard a “loud noise” from
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Dawson and Chen got married in February and moved to a new home in Memphis, although Dawson had traveled to Fiji with his ex-wife two years ago.
Jim Vula and Stephanie Pagones of Fox News contributed to this report.