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He said she sat up with her husband until he went to bed as she watched The Footy Show.
“Is it possible that Allison stayed up watching television… thinking about what had gone on between her and Gerard, what had been revealed, what you will see in the slide in front of you was the rawness could be opened up by that session,” he said.
Mr Byrne said Ms Baden-Clay wrote in a journal that she did not want to be alone and she was afraid of being alone and lonely, and was afraid of failing, “failing in my marriage and what people will think”.
“She can’t sleep. She’s up alone. She’s supposed to be going to the conference the next day… she avoids confrontation,” Mr Byrne said.
“What if she decides to go for a walk at that time to clear her head? What if, because of her depression she takes her Zoloft tablet around 10 or 11pm? That would explain, you might think, her changing into the walking clothes which she is found in.
“She leaves the house, having first placed Gerard’s phone, which she had possession of, on the charger at about 1.48am.”
Mr Byrne continued, adding that Ms Baden-Clay may have continued along her usual route and then decided to walk further, perhaps disorientated or perhaps not.
“About 4am, on the figures Dr Schramm gave you, the drugs would peak in her blood stream, the medication would be absorbed in her system, and was no longer present in her stomach, but we know the levels are in the blood. Maybe with that increase in dosage, we had serotonin syndrome or just the effects of sertraline,” he said.
“Consider that as a scenario. Is it something which is excluded on the evidence? And some time, for some reason, she ends up in the river.
“The autopsy report can’t rule out drowning, it can’t rule out a possible fall or jump from the bridge could have rendered her unconscious and that she either drowned or died in the river.”
He told the jury it was a scenario they might reject, but it was one which they might think was open on the evidence.
Mr Byrne said the jury had to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Baden-Clay managed to violently kill his wife and dispose her body.
“That is something I would submit you would reject out of hand,” he said.
He will continue his closing address tomorrow from 10am.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226979525605
“Is it possible that Allison stayed up watching television… thinking about what had gone on between her and Gerard, what had been revealed, what you will see in the slide in front of you was the rawness could be opened up by that session,” he said.
Mr Byrne said Ms Baden-Clay wrote in a journal that she did not want to be alone and she was afraid of being alone and lonely, and was afraid of failing, “failing in my marriage and what people will think”.
“She can’t sleep. She’s up alone. She’s supposed to be going to the conference the next day… she avoids confrontation,” Mr Byrne said.
“What if she decides to go for a walk at that time to clear her head? What if, because of her depression she takes her Zoloft tablet around 10 or 11pm? That would explain, you might think, her changing into the walking clothes which she is found in.
“She leaves the house, having first placed Gerard’s phone, which she had possession of, on the charger at about 1.48am.”
Mr Byrne continued, adding that Ms Baden-Clay may have continued along her usual route and then decided to walk further, perhaps disorientated or perhaps not.
“About 4am, on the figures Dr Schramm gave you, the drugs would peak in her blood stream, the medication would be absorbed in her system, and was no longer present in her stomach, but we know the levels are in the blood. Maybe with that increase in dosage, we had serotonin syndrome or just the effects of sertraline,” he said.
“Consider that as a scenario. Is it something which is excluded on the evidence? And some time, for some reason, she ends up in the river.
“The autopsy report can’t rule out drowning, it can’t rule out a possible fall or jump from the bridge could have rendered her unconscious and that she either drowned or died in the river.”
He told the jury it was a scenario they might reject, but it was one which they might think was open on the evidence.
Mr Byrne said the jury had to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that Baden-Clay managed to violently kill his wife and dispose her body.
“That is something I would submit you would reject out of hand,” he said.
He will continue his closing address tomorrow from 10am.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226979525605
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