Memphis’ Bradley Dawson convicted of killing his wife Christa Chen at the Fiji resort

The Memphis man who broke his bride through the toilet tank water on a honeymoon at the Turtle Exclusive Turtle Island resort in Fiji was sentenced to life in prison for her murder.

Bradley DawsonThe 41-year-old IT Specialist was arrested on July 10, 2022, after police in Pacific Island found Christte Chen Dawson, a 36-year-old pharmacist who is originally from Denver, dead in their private cabani: Bure 15. They got married. five months earlier and arrived in Fiji for two days before the hotel staff found her dead.

After a night of fun on the beach, the drunken quarrel ended when Dawson beaten her in the bathroom and fled the island stolen kayak, according to the trial.

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“What was supposed to be a truly joyful and unforgettable vacation was transformed into a nightmare for the late and her family, which caused them a lot of pain and sadness,” Judge Riyaz Hamza wrote in his decision to impose a sentence.

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I hope the memories of what you have done to her in her last moments are persecuted by you – because you are a monster.

– Xiao Wei Liu, Mother of the Sacrifice

Life punishment is required. Dawson will meet the conditions for conditional freedom, also known as a pardon in Fiji, after 18 years.

“No mother should know how this ended her daughter’s life, and only the person who is a vow is a vow to love, honor and nurture,” Chen’s mother said, Xiao Wei Liu, for Dawson in a victim’s statement. “I can only hope that the rest of your life is filled with misery, loneliness and despair.”

Chen’s father Tao Chen said his daughter was the “center of his family” and their life.

“She was my only child, my little girl and my reason for life,” he said. “Every day since her death was a struggle to find a sense in a life that now feels empty.”

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Dawson was convicted after the eighty day the trial of the bench Before the High Court in Lautok last year.

Hotel workers testified that Chen seemed upset in the floating bars of the resort in the evening of July 8 and the next morning. The couple had drank and briefly danced with members of the staff before the quarrel broke out.

A couple of security guards reported that the couple had gone together and headed for Bure 15. They both saw Dawson on the beach around 2am

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The next morning, the hotel staff saw the “Don’t Distribute” sign on the pair of couple. After the couple missed breakfast and lunch, the manager asked the housewife to check them.

Hotel worker Tomasi Mawi found Chen in a blood bathroom, leaning on the toilet and not moving. It was covered with blood and broken glass, and one hand “caught” in the water tank. Dr. Carolyn Murti, a local medical officer, declared Chen dead at the scene.

The autopsy later conducted by Dr. Avikali Mate described the scope of her injuries in terrible details: she had strong swelling around the eyes and over her mouth; The right hand was covered with bruises and cuts; And she had a “big wound” on her back above several smaller incisions.

Its cause of death was recorded As a murder traumatic brain injury.

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Mark Andrew Breaskey, Australian The businessman who stayed with his family in a cottage with Dawson’s testified that he heard him bang and a scream that came from Bura 15 around 12:40, July 9, about 15 minutes after seeing Dawson and Chen returning from the beach. Then it was silence.

Dawson appeared on the neighboring island the next day, carrying wet clothes and asking the locals to call the police, according to the trial. It was covered with bruises and cuts. The witness who ran into him testified that Dawson had told him he was “quarreling”.

Dawson told police that he was arguing with Chen about his ex -wife at dinner before returning to the cottage drunk.

“Then we went to bed, and I turned to her to hug her and hug her – when she got angry and started to say that I injured her, and she doesn’t know if she wanted to be with me,” he said, according to the transcript of his police interview. “Our argument was moving toward the place where the toilet was, and that was when Chris pushed me, and that was when it was I lost it. “

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He told them that the toilet and window had broken into the feud and that he left and returned. She didn’t move, so he grabbed Kayak and paddled into the night.

When asked by police if they would show them where the fight had happened, he said he did not want to return and face the other guests.

Although Dawson declared that he was not guilty, he refused to testify in his own defense and did not call the witnesses to the position. Instead, the defense claimed that Chen fell while he was drunk and caused his own death injury.

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“This court cannot accept this version of the accused,” Hamza said at the end of the trial. The injuries were too extreme, and a reasonable person would try to help you, not that her body left on the toilet.

Dawson has 30 days to appeal.

Turtle Island Island is located on a private island of 500 hectares outside Fiji mainland He is also known for his idyllic reefs, intact beaches and as a background for “Blue Lagoon” from 1980, starring Brooke Shields.