She said: ‘How are you?’ and I remember I actually broke into tears at that moment because nobody ever asked me how I was,” he said.
“I certainly may have indicated to her that I was keen to get the funding from somewhere but I wouldn’t have indicated to her that I was going to go bankrupt,” he said.
Baden-Clay said he remembered telling his mistress Toni McHugh he would sell the business on one occasion.
“But I wasn’t going to sell the business. I was yet again saying something to her to placate her and calm her down. I mean we’ve already been through this across two phone calls, 30 minute phone calls that we had that afternoon … and by the end of the conversation it was my recollection she had calmed down a little bit,” he said.
Baden-Clay agreed he told Ms McHugh a lie that day, on April 19, 2012.
The accused agreed he had properties at Anstead and had driven over the bridge at Kholo Creek.
“That road, if you drive along it, at Mt Crosby Rd, becomes a roller coaster, I would have been aware it crossed a creek, maybe two, I wasn’t familiar with it,” he said.
Mr Fuller asked the accused about the police investigation into his wife’s disappearance on April 20, 2012.
Baden-Clay agreed both he and his sister had driven some of his wife’s walking routes, he had called his wife, her car and keys were at the house and the prospect was something serious had happened.
“My mind was in a spin, in a world of wondering what might have happened to her, obviously if she had slipped and fallen over and been knocked unconscious … really that was foremost in my mind as to what might have happened,” he said.
He agreed he was asked about the nature of his relationship with his wife.
Mr Fuller asked the accused whether there were two possibilities of what had happened to his wife: that she was taken from the house or abducted while on her walk.
Baden-Clay: “That is a possibility and there are innumerable other possibilities, too.”
He agreed police searched his backyard and told him her phone had been triangulated to an area near their home, extending out 4km.
Baden-Clay agreed he told police he had an affair, he and his wife had been to see a counsellor, they had spoken about it the night before but did not fight or argue.
He agreed police asked him about his wife’s mental health, medication she was taking and the state of their relationship.
Baden-Clay agreed the police asked questions about the scratches on their face.
He agreed the police were doing all they could do to progress their investigation into where his wife was.
“There was one point when I had been sitting at the table … when I said ‘what are we doing sitting around here, why aren’t we out looking for Allison, that’s what I want to be doing now… how are we going to find Allison if we are all standing around here?’,” he said.
He said his wife committing suicide or wandering off on medication was “not at the forefront of his mind”.
The trial will resume at 10am.
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