A man from Tennessee was sentenced to Life Prison to Fiji after being found guilty of having murdered his wife During their honeymoon in 2022, according to local media.
Bradley Dawson, 40, was found guilty of killed his wife Christe Chen, 36, in December 2024.
On Tuesday February, he was sentenced to life prison. Judge Riyaz Hamza, a judge of the High Court of Lautoka of Fiji, said that Dawson will have to serve a minimum of 18 years before he can be considered for forgiveness, According to the Fiji Times.
Hamza said the eight -day trial has proven that Dawson is engaged in a driving that had caused Chen’s death when they stayed in an exclusive insular station, the Fiji Times said. Hamza also said that Dawson intended to cause Chen’s death or was recklessly causing it, according to the Fiji Times.
Chen, a graduate of the Center for Health Sciences at the University of Tennessee, worked as a pharmacist at the time of his death, the affiliate of CBS Wreg reported.
Center for Health Sciences at the University of Tennessee
Staff members had heard the couple competing before the murder, and Chen was found the next day by the staff of the complex, with multiple injuries with a blunt trauma to the head. In 2022, a The lawyer representing the parents of Christe Chen said Their daughter’s body was so seriously damaged that it could not be hired for the return to the United States and its leftovers were cremated.
Dawson fled to kayaking on a neighboring island after killing Chen. It was found about 36 hours after the discovery of Chen’s body, with its passport and other goods with it. Hamza said it said he was planning to flee.
“Your conduct after the incident was appalling. After imposing serious and fatal injuries on the deceased, you fled the crime location, leaving the deceased alone and defenseless,” said Hamza during the conviction, in part, according to Fiji Times.
