The Crown v Gerard Baden-Clay, 30th June - Trial Day 12, Week 3

[Amee]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 45s

In the first year, 2005, he won a Quest business achievers award - Gerard #badenclay

 

[Amee]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 45s

He says home life was not great, they had young children and Allison wasn't coping #badenclay

 

[PrimeSuspect]

Prime do you want to do the tweets?

ok I'll do David Murray and Francene Norton if you like? I can till lunch only though.

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 10s

Gerard says he became the local chamber of commerce president in 2005. #badenclay

Gerard says he would take one of the girls with him to breakfast meetings to give Allison a break. #badenclay

 

[Amee]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m

Allison would call during the day needing him and he would drop everything and go home #badenclay

 

[they'll get you]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 6s

Gerard is back on the stand. #badenclay

Gerard says when he began work as a real estate agent, it put a strain on Allison. #badenclay

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 35s

Gerard says most of the time he did that routine, Allison went to bed as soon as he got home #badenclay

He's gone straight for the throat.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
In the first year, 2005, he won a Quest business achievers award - Gerard #badenclay

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
He says home life was not great, they had young children and Allison wasn't coping #badenclay


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
Allison would call during the day needing him and he would drop everything and go home #badenclay

 

[Amee]

ok I'll do David Murray and Francene Norton if you like? I can till lunch only though.

Awesome. Thank You :loveyou:

 

[marlywings]

I'm thinking they wouldn't

Yep they would TGY. It was in media reports back in 2012 or around that time....after it was posted on WS

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · now

Gerard says "unfortunately" his relationship with Allison "deteriorated quite dramatically". #badenclay

Gerard says "putting on the facade of being all together" was very draining for Allison. #badenclay

Gerard: We communicated less and less and less. #badenclay

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
Gerard says he'd take his eldest daughter with him #badenclay


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 43s
He says his relationship with Allison deteriorated, she put her efforts into the children #badenclay

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 19s

Gerard says the medication "assisted with the depths of her depression". #badenclay

Gerard says it assisted with smoothing out the lower ends of her mood, but knocked out the higher end too. #badenclay

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 55s
Putting on the facade of 'being all together' was draining for her - Gerard #badenclay

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 46s
Medication affected Allison's mood - Gerard #badenclay

 

[Oddsocks]

He's gone straight for the throat.

I honestly don't believe he's trying to imply suicide. IMO he's just relaying his side of the story.

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 39s
She was a lovely energetic person when we got married -Gerard #badenclay



Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 58s
#badenclay says his business won the 2005 Quest business achiever's award. But personally things were not great. @abcnews

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 13s

Gerard: She was just a lovely energetic person when we met. But she became much more withdrawn. #badenclay

Gerard: She was just like a blurrier image of herself. Gerard is crying on the stand again. #badenclay :facepalm:

 

[Amee]

10:01am: The fourth week of the trial is under way in Court 11.

Gerard Baden-Clay has returned to the witness box to be questioned by his defence counsel Michael Byrne QC.

The trial drew a large crowd of curious court watchers this morning with the queue to the building stretching at least 100 metres from the front door by 7.45am.

A group of five women near the front of the line drove from the Gold Coast to watch today's proceedings. Passersby reminded those in the queue that at the heart of the case are three young girls whose father is on trial for their mother's murder

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...y-12-week-4-20140630-3b2vi.html#ixzz364ont3ez

 

[Amee]

10:02am: Mr Baden-Clay is sitting in the witness box wearing a dark suit and glasses.

His sister Olivia Walton and brother Adam Baden-Clay are seated in the front row of the public gallery.

Mrs Baden-Clay's family is seated on the opposite side of the gallery.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...y-12-week-4-20140630-3b2vi.html#ixzz364ows2U1

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 40s
She became much more withdrawn in that period, he says, as he cries on the stand #badenclay @couriermail

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 27s
Weight gain, loss of libido and other adverse effects - Gerard #badenclay



Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 36s
#badenclay "She was just a lovely energetic person when we met and married.. she had a love of life." @abcnews

 

[Amee]

10:08am: Mr Baden-Clay is speaking about his family life after the birth of his second daughter.

He said he did most of the heavy lifting of the evenings, bathing his children, feeding them dinner and putting them to bed.

"On most occasions Allison would go to bed pretty much as soon as I walked in the door," he said.

He said he and his parents opened their own real estate franchise Century 21 Westside at Kenmore in 2005.

''At first it was myself, my Mum and Dad and a girl called Cheryl," he said.

"It was just the four of us ...

"We started from nothing ... we had no clients, no listings, nothing, so we had to start everything from scratch so it was quite a challenge but ... we became very successful very quickly.

"That first year, 2005, we won the Quest Business Achievers Award for the Best Real Estate Agency in the western suburbs."

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...y-12-week-4-20140630-3b2vi.html#ixzz364p7eaaT