What you draw from that at least is this: Gerard Baden-Clay is not a person who would cold-bloodedly kill his wife, the mother of his children,” he said.
“Nor is he… someone who would explode in a rage of temper… no history of that whatsoever in his life.”
Mr Byrne said apart from the possibility of Ms Baden-Clay experiencing worsening depression and the birth of a baby boy in the family, life was mostly the same around the time of April 19, 2012.
He said there were details the jury should take into account when assessing who the accused was and what was going on in his mind on April 20, 2012 when his wife disappeared.
“Think of that scenario in your own lives, if your wife, partner, husband… was simply not there in the morning,” he said.
“You work through a process and the process he went through was laid bare in the phone calls he made… his need to search and his calls, not once, not twice, but three times to police… That does not in my submission betray to you someone who is hiding something or someone who has violently killed their wife.”
Mr Byrne said Baden-Clay told Ms McHugh to just tell the truth.
He said that was not the usual response of a man who had just violently killed his wife.
Mr Byrne said Baden-Clay told the jury in evidence he was worried his wife would walk in the door or had slipped and injured herself on the day she went missing.
“As you are acutely aware from listening carefully in this trial, your role is to dispassionately assess the evidence to determine whether you can reach a verdict in this case,” he said.
He said the verdict had to be unanimous.
“Your task is to make that decision on the evidence. I mentioned yesterday and I don’t shirk from this, that there has been sensationalist media coverage, coverage which some may say… was for the lowest common denominator and had the effect of salacious gossip at times,” he said.
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