I'm in and out of meetings today so the Brisbane Times updates may be a bit delayed unless someone else wanted to take over?
10:15am: Mr Byrne said Mr Baden-Clay was not the sort of man to kill his wife and mother of his children in "cold blood" and was not the type to "explode in anger".
He said his client was of good character despite his previous infidelity.
10:19am: Mr Baden-Clay is seated in the dock wearing a dark suit and tie and glasses.
His sister Olivia Walton and brother Adam Baden-Clay are seated in the front row of the public gallery directly behind the dock.
Allison Baden-Clay's family and friends are seated on the opposite side of the public gallery with homicide detectives involved in the case
10:24am: Mr Byrne has reminded the jury, again, to ignore what he has described as "sensationalist media coverage" of the trial.
"Your task and indeed your duty, your sworn duty, is to ignore all that," he said.
"You're not here to deliver a verdict based on what the media would like you to do ...
"Your duty is to return a true verdict according to the evidence and that is a simple proposition."
10:27am: "Once you have dispassionately, objectively assessed the evidence - the whole of the evidence - you would not and you could not find Gerard Baden-Clay guilty of the murder of his wife," Mr Byrne said.
"There is no cause of death, there's no motive that stands to scrutiny, there's no realistic means of him doing the things the prosecution says were done by him as part of a scenario."
Mr Byrne said the Crown could not establish how Mr Baden-Clay violently killed his wife in a house with three young children, or how he transported the body to Kholo Creek without leaving a trial.
"The verdict on that evidence should be one of not guilty," he said.
"Thank you for your attention."
10:28am: Prosecutor Todd Fuller QC has begun his closing address to the jury.
The prosecution was effectively afforded the final say in the trial because Mr Baden-Clay decided to step into the witness box to adduce evidence.
10:31am: "Human behaviour is sometimes inexplicable," Mr Fuller said.
He said the Baden-Clays lived a facade.
To the outside world, they were a happily married couple.
In reality, both Mr and Mrs Baden-Clay were desperately unhappy.
Mr Baden-Clay was embroiled in multiple affairs with different women throughout his marriage.
"He had an affair with a women in the office where his father worked," Mr Fuller said.
"That shows you the level of deception. That shows you the level of bravado.
"He presented a number of faces to a number of different people, right up until his evidence in this trial."
10:34am: Mr Fuller said Mr Baden-Clay reacted to the pressures in his life on the night of April 19, 2012.
"What's building on this man here? What's changing in his life in the period we're talking about here?" he asked.
Mr Fuller said Mr Baden-Clay's actions were a "reaction to a particular set of circumstances that accumulated over time, a set of circumstances that were in fact his own making".
10:35am: Mr Fuller is standing away from the bar table and is pacing back and forth as he directly addresses the jury.
10:37am: Mr Fuller has turned his attention to the nature of the circumstantial case against Mr Baden-Clay.
"It's like a television picture," he said.
If you stand close to a television screen, you see a series of small dots, Mr Fuller said.
"Step back and you see the full picture," he said.
10:43am: Mr Fuller said the defence theory, once placed in context, could not be substantiated.
"You'be been led astray," he said.
10:45am: The jury has taken its first 10 minute break for the morning.
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