Just a few thoughts:
1. those built in shelf bras in the singlet tops are totally useless unless you're a teenager.
2. i've seen a few cases where someone gave a detailed description of what a victim was wearing and it's turned out to be that it was because that someone dressed the victim.
3. I think the reason they had to notify the insurance so quickly was because the premium hadn't been paid and they were worried that it would be void if they waited.
I get the impression that GBC wouldn't be able to tell the truth even if it was to his benefit. Does he have some sort of aversion to being honest? It's so second nature for him to lie or exaggerate, I don't think he can control it. I understand better now what being a compulsive liar looks like. And he admits to stringing people along like it's totally normal behaviour. If I was on the jury I would find it really hard to consider the evidence in a balanced way because I just don't trust a thing he says.
They didn't drive Allison's car. It remained in the carport.
ETA: Kieron Ash's statement re: the cars.
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Just a few thoughts:
1. those built in shelf bras in the singlet tops are totally useless unless you're a teenager.
2. i've seen a few cases where someone gave a detailed description of what a victim was wearing and it's turned out to be that it was because that someone dressed the victim.
3. I think the reason they had to notify the insurance so quickly was because the premium hadn't been paid and they were worried that it would be void if they waited.
Susan this is my thinking exactly. I think that the top Allison was found in is the same one she was wearing with her pyjama bottoms prior to her murder. GBC changed Allison into her (as he described) daggy old grey pants to make it appear that she'd gone for a walk. He had to come up with a reason why she'd disappeared. There may not have been any blood on Allison's pyjamas at all. GBC simply wanted to make it look like she'd gone for a walk and she wouldn't do that in her pj's. It would have been a simple matter of pulling down the pyjama pants and pulling on the XXL pants. Removing his socks from her feet and replacing them with a pair of Allison's and then putting on her runners. I just wish the laces in her runners had been checked as to which way they were tied. It would be obvious whether Allison had tied her own laces or someone had tied them while facing her.
From the autopsy report.
The body is clothed in the following:
- What appeared to be a jacket at the death scene is a light coloured jumper. Most of the jumper is inside-out, and the hands remain within the sleeves. It is somewhat twisted and wrapped around the neck to some degree. Both the collar and waistband regions of the jumper are in the neck region. The jumper is a Bonds brand size XL. The unusual position of the jumper may have occurred after death with movement of the body. It cannot be excluded that it was used as a ligature.
- Purple singlet with incorporated bra. It has thin straps over the shoulders. It is of Short Stories brand and size 12.
- Dark coloured three-quarter length pants. They are Katies brand size XXL. There are no pockets.
- Light coloured underpants.
- Predominantly white sneakers with some blue areas. They are of Lynx brand size 9. They have some mud and dirt on them. On initial examination the laces of both shoes are tied up, but upon removal of the shoes the left shoelace came partially undone.
- Short white socks with a darker band on top.
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Reading again over GBC's first interview at Brookfield, he describes what Allison was wearing, or what he thinks she was wearing. She wasn't wearing the black Lorna Jane outfit because he'd checked and it was still there. So why didn't he check for her pyjamas, even if it was just the pyjama pants?
I'm thinking that the pyjama's were mentioned at that interview or soon after but this information was never included in these bail application documents.
When you read the description GBC gives the police of what Allison was wearing, he is telling a half truth. In fact he almost trips himself up.
SGT JACKSON: Is it a singlet top or a shirt?
BADEN-CLAY: Ah she has a singlet top um* [INDISTINCT] she sometimes wears a sloppy joe or something over the top of that. Um it's also grey.
* Was he about to say she has a singlet top on? I think he was and then he deflects to "she sometimes wears a sloppy joe" etc.
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 10s
The court is being shown a picture of front of the house. Gerard is pointing out his daughter's window, overlooks carport roof. #badenclay
Gerard says Allison had reverse parked the Captiva in the carport on April 19. #badenclay
Back on the house plans now, Gerard is talking about the garage, carport and under house storage. #badenclay
David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
He says he reversed the Captiva into the garage after looking for Allison that morning #badenclay
Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 1m
#badenclay says he used Sparky to go looking for his wife on the 20th. when he returned he reversed it into carport. @abcnews
Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 1m
Gerard has become adept at using the electronic screen in the witness box to 'draw' on exhibits to illustrate his point #badenclay
Do you think the trial will still be going next week? I can't go till then.
This is interesting, about the scratches:
https://twitter.com/AtomicHME/status/484101911134494720/photo/1
You're right. If that singlet had the elastic under the bra section, a mother of three children doesn't just pull it on, like a bra you need to bend forward and 'place' the breasts into it. If you just pull it down then the breasts are pulled down.
Makes sense?
The pyjamas. Simple but possibly very significant. It'd be too good to find those pyjamas with his blood on them.
Is there that trump card ready to played?
He had a rental property out that way. Of course he knew where the bridge was! I'm sure Todd Fuller will get back to that one.
It also means Allison did not take it off herself.The significance of the PJs is not that she wasn't wearing them, it's that they were (as far as we know) never found. It fits that whatever was on them (his cheek blood or Allison's DNA from a huge fright) was incriminating.