The Crown v Gerard Baden-Clay, 7th July - Trial Day 15

[Amee]

Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 1m

The children told police their parents did not fight #badenclay

Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 51s

Friends and family say the same: they were just not that kind of couple #Badenclay

 

[Inspector]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 6s

Byrne says the Crown will say she had cross country, would have been tired and slept through it. #badenclay

Byrne: If they say it really quickly, it might make sense. #badenclay

I was about to say that! Kids can sleep through amazing things. Ours do through dogs barking loudly next to them. Smothering would not have been noisy. And cars leaving, that's easy to sleep through IMO.

This also assumes they were not influenced in what they said to police.

 

[Freya1977]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m

She is telling you what that house is like and what those people are like - defence #badenclay
Friends and colleagues never heard them fight. They're not that kind of couple - defence #badenclay


Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 1m

Defence says eldest #badenclay daughter heard nothing. "It was just a night like any other night" Middle daughter says parents never fought.

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · now

The second girl was asked whether her mum and dad had had a fight the night before. The girl shakes her head. #badenclay

Byrne: From the mouths of babes. #badenclay

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 40s

Byrne says the second girl also asked about car noises. She heard nothing. #badenclay

Byrne says that's not one child tired from cross country. That's two now. #badenclay

 

[Freya1977]

Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 45s

Gerard's defence counsel Michael Byrne stands at lectern, gesturing to jury. Reading from transcript of middle #badenclay child's evidence.



David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 54s

Middle child shook her head when asked if parents had a fight the night before - defence #badenclay

 

[Freya1977]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 43s
What about car noises? She didn't hear any - defence #badenclay
Finally, youngest daughter. Had never heard mum and dad talk loudly to each other - defence #badenclay


Sarah Greenhalgh ‏@GreenhalghSarah 45s
Defence says night Allison disappeared, their 3 girls heard nothing. No argument,"just a night, like any other night" #badenclay @tennewsqld

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 34s

Byrne says youngest daughter said the same. No fighting. No car noises. #badenclay

Byrne says again it's important not to take grabs, headlines. Take all the evidence. #badenclay

Byrne says from three girls there is no argument. Nobody heard a car start up in the carport. #badenclay

 

[Freya1977]

Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 1m
"From the mouths of babes," defence says, of #badenclay children telling police they heard no fighting, no car doors, no argument that night


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 53s
Three unprompted, raw accounts on what did not happen at the house that night - defence #badenclay

 

[Amee]

Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 48s

None heard the car start. None heard anything #badenclay

Three children - unprompted, unscripted, unanimous - all agree that they heard nothing #Badenclay

 

[Freya1977]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
Don't take headlines, look closely at all the evidence - defence #badenclay


Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 39s
Byrne says evidence of 3 daughters was "unprompted, unscripted, raw accounts of what did not happen in the house". #badenclay @abcnews


Michael Kersnovske ‏@MKersnovske 39s
Defence: #badenclay children had never heard their parents have a fight saying "they were not that kind of couple"@tennewsqld

 

[Trooper]

He got her before she made a sound..

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 7s

Byrne says the scream evidence "just vanished into thin air" with the evidence of Stephanie Apps. #badenclay

Byrne says Apps gave evidence her daughter screamed when she ran into a spiderweb. #badenclay

Byrne: The evidence just falls away. #badenclay

 

[toe]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
Police asked eldest daughter if mum and dad had any fights lately. She said no - defence #badenclay
She was asked if she heard anything that night. Small house, plasterboard walls. Heard nothing - defence #badenclay
Her room was right above the carport - defence #badenclay



Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 2m
Defence says three #badenclay girls told police they heard nothing, saw nothing on night mum was allegedly murdered by dad.



Leonie Mellor ‏@leoniemellor 2m
Byrne: says small house, plasterboard walls but oldest daughter heard nothing on night Allison disappeared. @abcnews #badenclay



Katrina Blowers ‏@katrinablowers 2m
Defence tells jury #badenclay house small, not soundproofed. Three girls didn't hear anything the night Allison went missing.@7NewsBrisbane

Yet the night prior to Allison's murder, the Baden-Clays were called to come sit with the children so Allison and Gerry could remove themselves from the home to discuss Allison's journal entries. Why would they need to do this if there was NO RAISED VOICEs expected from this altercation?

 

[JK673]

Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 1m
"From the mouths of babes," defence says, of #badenclay children telling police they heard no fighting, no car doors, no argument that night


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 53s
Three unprompted, raw accounts on what did not happen at the house that night - defence #badenclay

By continually saying the girls were "unprompted" so much - tells me that they were very much prompted.....for the good of the family name......

 

[Freya1977]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 42s
Noises in the night, screams, bumps, we sat here for hours listening to that evidence - defence #badenclay


Sarah Greenhalgh ‏@GreenhalghSarah 1m
Defence: "3 children. 3 unanimous, unprompted, unscripted accounts of what didn't happen that night" #badenclay @tennewsqld


Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 1m
Defence: "3 children, 3 unanimous, unprompted, unscripted accounts of what did not happen...the night of the 19th (April 2012)" #badenclay

 

[Amee]

Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 35s

The Crown did put forward evidence that others in the neighbourhood heard screams in the night #badenclay

 

[jens]

He got her before she made a sound..

Agree!

Plus the parents didn't fight...in front of the kids!

 

[Freya1977]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 58s
It vanished into thin air when Stephanie Apps gave evidence at the last minute - defence #badenclay
The 6pm news might have told you screams in the house rang out from the murder house. Nonsense - defence #badenclay

 

[PlainJaneDoe]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 30s

Byrne says friends and employees never heard a fight. They're just not that kind of couple. #badenclay

You're not "that kind of couple" but your whole office knew you were cheating on your wife and you cried when confronted about it.

 

[Amee]

Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 44s

But it's 'nonsense' to say that these screams definitely came from 'the murder house' #badenclay

Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 47s

They may have come from a girl in another house who ran through a spiderweb #badenclay