Allison Baden-Clay's husband had an affair with a woman at his work that was widely known about, friends say in evidence central to police investigations into the Brisbane mother's death.
The mother-of-three reportedly learned of the affair between Gerard Baden-Clay and Toni McHugh, a former saleswoman at the couple's real estate franchise, around a year before her body was found under a bridge in West Brisbane on April 30.
Ms McHugh has been interviewed at least three times by police and confirmed the affair, which was ongoing and widely known among family and friends, The Courier Mail reports.
Mr Baden-Clay's lawyer declined to comment on the reported affair and Ms McHugh was not answering her phone yesterday she had refused earlier interview requests, saying she had "nothing to say".
But numerous sources spoke to The Sunday Mail, saying the affair became public long before the 43-year-old mother was reported missing by her husband on April 20.
One colleague said things came to a head around the middle of 2011 when Mr Baden-Clay came to work and told staff his wife had discovered the affair Ms McHugh resigned almost immediately after.
"People saw them at events together. People saw them at dinners together. People had dinners with them together. It wasn't a well kept secret," a source told The Mail.
Mrs Baden-Clay's husband reported her missing from their home in Brookfield at 7.30am (AEDT) on April 20 after she failed to return from a walk.
Her body was later found under a bridge over Kholo Creek.
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Sorry if what I am typing below upsets anyone.
Just a question :
What made the police check out nbc shed ? Looking for Possums ?? Or maybe a stack of valuable old Playboy mags? Maybe a shovel? Or maybe something that was used to weigh Allison's body with ?
Somone here said they had creepy feeling about Kohlo Creek .....any rightly so, apparently Allison was there all the time. She was never meant to be found, her body was thrown over the bridge and she was weighted down, which is why she was missing a hand. The canoeist found her body UNDER the water in the very very low tide.......allegedly, apparently.........
