Recap of MSM Brisbane Times Court Timeline posts from today in timeline order
Day 14
Posted along the thread today by Amee :loveyou:
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BRISBANE TIMES MSM
10:22am: The 14th day of the trial is under way in Court 11.
The trial is now being live streamed to two other court rooms, including the Banco Court, which seats 147 people.
The Banco Court, which is usually reserved for ceremonial occasions, was filled with curious court watchers yesterday.
10:22am: Gerard Baden-Clay has returned to the witness box to be cross-examined by Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller QC.
Mr Baden-Clay weathered more than three hours of intense questioning by Mr Fuller yesterday.
The former real estate agent is dressed in a dark suit with a blue tie and glasses.
10:22am: Mr Fuller has turned his questioning to Mr Baden-Clay's affair with his long-time mistress Toni McHugh.
"When did you tell your family of the affair?" Mr Fuller asked.
"When I was informed by someone in the media that they were going to be letting everybody know about it," Mr Baden-Clay replied.
"I didn't anticipate that the police were going to inform the media [about the affair] but they did."
10:34am: Mr Fuller has asked Mr Baden-Clay why he chose to drive his wife's Holden Captiva to search for her on the morning she disappeared.
The Holden Captiva was parked in the car port that morning.
Mr Baden-Clay's white Toyota Prado was parked in the drive way in front of the car port.
"You would have had to reverse it [the Captiva] out around the Prado and down the driveway?" Mr Fuller asked.
"Yes. That was perfectly normal," Mr Baden-Clay replied.
"There wasn't significant damage to the Prado?" Mr Fuller said.
"No. Someone side-swiped me," Mr Baden-Clay said.
"And when had that occurred?" Mr Fuller asked.
"On the Monday," Mr Baden-Clay replied.
"So you'd been driving the vehicle on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday," Mr Fuller said.
"Yes," Mr Baden-Clay said.
The court has previously heard Mr Baden-Clay had been involved in a minor car accident on the Monday morning.
"There was nothing to stop you taking the Prado?" Mr Fuller said.
"There was nothing to stop me taking the Prado with me, that's correct," Mr Baden-Clay said.
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10:45am: "When did you first become aware that Allison had been found?" Mr Fuller asked.
Mr Baden-Clay said he was at his Taringa real estate office when news emerged that a body had been found under Kholo Creek bridge.
He said he phoned his lawyer Darren Mahony upon hearing the news.
Mr Baden-Clay then travelled to Brisbane's CBD where he met Mr Mahony and barrister Peter Davis.
"On the 30th of April we were at the office and a media came through somehow I don't recall how I then went, I think I may have called Darren, I must have spoken to Darren and asked if he knew anything, because the police had been liaising with him as well," Mr Baden-Clay said.
"He recommended that we meet together in the city and the police came and informed us at Peter Davis's chambers."
"The police told you that a body had been found," Mr Fuller said.
"And they confirmed it was Allison," Mr Baden-Clay said.
"I remember being physically shocked by that."
"They didn't tell you it was likely to be Allison or possible it could be Allison, they told you it was Allison," Mr Fuller said.
"Correct," Mr Baden-Clay said.
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10:54am: Mr Fuller: "What was the loss to you [financially] if you and Allison had separated?"
Mr Baden-Clay: "You're asking a lot of hypothetical questions that I've never really explored in detail myself so I'm not sure I can really answer that. Honestly, I can't answer that."
Mr Fuller: "There would have been financial consequences to you if you left your wife."
Mr Baden-Clay: "Yes ... If Allison and I had determined we were going to divorce ... I don't know how that would have played out, I honestly don't know."
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11:04am: Mr Fuller has turned his questioning again to the night of April 19, 2012.
Mr Baden-Clay's long-time mistress Toni McHugh was due to come face-to-face with Mrs Baden-Clay at a real estate conference the following day.
Mr Fuller: "You're double life would be exposed."
Mr Baden-Clay; "No."
Mr Fuller: "The facade that was Gerard Baden-Clay would fall wouldn't it?"
Mr Baden-Clay: "If what, sorry?"
Mr Fuller: "If Toni McHugh confronted Allison at the conference."
Mr Baden-Clay: "It never entered my head that that was a concern."
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10:34am: Mr Fuller has asked Mr Baden-Clay why he chose to drive his wife's Holden Captiva to search for her on the morning she disappeared.
The Holden Captiva was parked in the car port that morning.
Mr Baden-Clay's white Toyota Prado was parked in the drive way in front of the car port.
"You would have had to reverse it [the Captiva] out around the Prado and down the driveway?" Mr Fuller asked.
"Yes. That was perfectly normal," Mr Baden-Clay replied.
"There wasn't significant damage to the Prado?" Mr Fuller said.
"No. Someone side-swiped me," Mr Baden-Clay said.
"And when had that occurred?" Mr Fuller asked.
"On the Monday," Mr Baden-Clay replied.
"So you'd been driving the vehicle on the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday," Mr Fuller said.
"Yes," Mr Baden-Clay said.
The court has previously heard Mr Baden-Clay had been involved in a minor car accident on the Monday morning.
"There was nothing to stop you taking the Prado?" Mr Fuller said.
"There was nothing to stop me taking the Prado with me, that's correct," Mr Baden-Clay said.
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11:20am: Mr Fuller: "You killed your wife, Mr Baden-Clay."
Mr Baden-Clay: "No, I did not."
The prosecutor put to Mr Baden-Clay that he had attacked his wife and the "only way" she could respond was to "lash out and claw his face".
"That is not true," Mr Baden-Clay replied.
Mr Fuller: "Probably as you smothered her and took her life from her."
Mr Baden-Clay: "That is not true. I never did anything to physically harm my wife in any way, ever."
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11:25am: Mr Fuller suggested Mr Baden-Clay dragged his wife's body to the boot of her Holden Captiva and then drove to Kholo Creek at Anstead where he dumped her body "unceremoniously" to "hurry back" to his sleeping children in the middle of the night.
"The suggestion that I would leave my children for any time, in the middle of the night, is absurd, let alone do the dastardly things you're suggesting," Mr Baden-Clay replied
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11:27am: Mr Fuller then suggested the deed was done by 1.48am on April 20, 2012, when Mr Baden-Clay's iPhone was connected to his bedside charger.
Mr Baden-Clay denied that.
The 43-year-old also denied covering his "tracks" by putting boxes of toys into his wife's Captiva and shaving to create cuts along the bottom edges of the scratches on his face.
Mr Fuller suggested Mr Baden-Clay was "pretending" when he told police he was worried about his wife's whereabouts.
"I was a concerned husband and I am a very concerned father ... it's not a facade," Mr Baden-Clay said.
Mr Fuller concluded his cross-examination.
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11:28am: Mr Baden-Clay has been briefly re-examined by his defence barrister Michael Byrne QC to clarify points raised in the cross-examination.
Mr Baden-Clay has been excused from the witness box.
The court has adjourned for a short morning tea break.
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11:56am: Court has resumed.
The defence team has called its first witness.
Ashton Ward has been called to the witness box. Mr Ward is the director of a Brisbane company called Khemistry which specialises in producing time lapse videos.
11:59am: The time lapse video showing the tides of Kholo Creek at Anstead has been played for the second time for the court.
The video was first shown to the jury during the opening address of defence counsel Michael Byrne QC.
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12:05pm: Forensic toxicologist Dr Michael Robertson has been called to the witness box.
Dr Robertson has been a toxicologist for the past two decades and practicing as a forensic toxicologist for the majority of the time.
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12:22pm: Mr Byrne asked Dr Robertson to comment on the adverse affects of the anti-depressent drug Zoloft of which the active component in the Serotonin.
Dr Robertson said elevated levels of Serotonin could cause "Seratonin toxicity" or "Serotonin syndrome" in patients.
"When you get too much of this drug you can get cases of more profound confusion, increased agitation, unusual behaviours ... elevated temperatures," he said.
Dr Robertson said the drug could promote "suicide ideation" in people using the medication.
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12:39pm: Dr Robertson has been cross-examined by Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller QC.
Mr Fuller suggested the levels of the drug Sertraline, sold as Zoloft, found in Mrs Baden-Clay's body did not cause her death.
"I can't necessarily agree with that completely," Dr Roberston said.
He said the could be various explanations for the elevated levels of Sertraline found in Mrs Baden-Clay's decomposing body.
"Whether they indirectly had involvement, I don't know," Dr Robertson said.
Mr Fuller said the levels of Sertraline in Mrs Baden-Clay's body was not consistent with levels typically reported in Sertraline-related deaths.
"Correct," Dr Robertson said.
Dr Robertson has been excused.
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12:44pm: Psychiatrist Dr Mark Schramm has been called to the witness box.
He reviewed Mrs Baden-Clay's medical records upon the request of the defence team. Dr Schramm chiefly works within the Queensland prison system but also has a private practice at Toowong.
His report was reviewed by Professor Diego De Leo, a suicidologist, based at Griffith University.
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12:53pm: Defence counsel Michael Byrne QC has asked Dr Schramm to comment on the nature of suicide.
Dr Schramm said more than half of people who committed suicide did not leave a note.
He recalled a well-respected study on suicide which he said found that "most people who took their lives did not leave a suicide note".
"One-tenth to one-third do not leave notes," Dr Schramm said.
Mr Baden-Clay has repeatedly pointed to his wife's history with depression to suggest she took her own life.
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12:56pm: Mr Byrne asked Dr Schramm to comment how often suicide was "unexpected".
"It's not uncommon that suicide, unfortunately, is a surprise," Dr Schramm said.
"It is also the case that very often, and unfortunately, suicide is a surprise and that even in retrospect it has been impossible to predict."
12:59pm: Dr Schramm has been cross-examined by Crown prosecutor Danny Boyle.
He conceded a woman's "maternal instinct" would be considered a factor that would prevent suicide.
He also conceded a person making "short and long term plans for the future" would also be considered a prevention factor.
Mr Boyle asked Dr Schramm about suicide in people who had been proactive in seeking help for depression and anxiety.
"Allison seemed to be a person who put her hand up and sought help," Dr Schramm said.
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1:08pm: "She suffered from major depression which is a major risk factor for suicide," Dr Schramm added.
"One could imagine that the stress associated with the problems in the marriage could have contributed to thoughts of suicide."
Anyone needing support can contact Lifeline on 131 114 or Mensline on 1300 789 978.
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