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I had started to categorize the Tweets from the thread, but realize there are 103 pages of transcript to go through per category - so at this stage I only have tweet related to today - GBC talks TM and affairs.
Note: These are Tweets WSers placed today from this thread
They are in the order they were posted - not in chronological order.
I have tried to leave out repeats - some are similar - different writers.
They are the words of the msm tweeters - not official transcript.
Tweets Re: Affair.
Gerard says by 2008, Toni McHugh had been working for them for about a year. #badenclay
Gerard says they had started a fledgling property management business. He asked Toni to look after it. #badenclay
Gerard says then Toni resumed being a salesperson. "We developed more of a closer relationship." #badenclay
Gerard says Toni was having some problems with her own relationship. #badenclay
Gerard says he and Toni "started a physical relationship". I think for both of us was "purely for that". #badenclay
Gerard says he tried to break it off with Toni on numerous occasions. Sometimes successful for days, sometimes for month or two. #badenclay
Gerard says August 28, 2008, was when the physical relationship with Toni commenced. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni assured him she hadn't broken up her relationship for him. #badenclay
Gerard says for him it was only a physical relationship, he didn't want any more. #badenclay
Gerard #badenclay started affair w/ Ms McHugh in '08. First time was in his Prado, after he'd put the children to bed & returned to office.
Gerard: She wanted me to divorce Allison and start up a relationship with her. #badenclay
Toni left her partner, Gerard was concerned #badenclay
'For me it was only really a physical relationship.' Gerard on relationship with Toni of more than three years #badenclay @couriermail
Gerard: My loyalty, it doesn't feel right using that word, my loyalty was to Allison and my children. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni was a good salesperson and he was worried about the impact on the business if he separated from her permanently. #badenclay
10:46am: Mr Baden-Clay said Ms McHugh often asked him to leave his wife to be with her. He said he refused.
Gerard says Toni was volatile with her moods, he was concerned about the impact on the business if they separated #badenclay
Gerard: She pushed for things ... I'd say whatever she wanted to hear. #badenclay
Gerard says "it was always me" who broke up with Toni. He'd say there wasn't a future for them together. #badenclay
I'd say whatever she wanted to hear - Gerard #badenclay on Toni McHugh @couriermail
#badenclay: "As time went on she wanted me to divorce Allison and start a life with her." @7NewsBrisbane
Gerard says there was an occasion where Toni went overseas. He hoped that would "be the circuit breaker". #badenclay
Gerard says he was with Toni "primarily for the physical intimacy". #badenclay
Gerard says it was primarily about the physical intimacy, and he was flattered by the attention #badenclay
Gerard says they went to see a marriage counsellor. He did not reveal the affair. "I was ashamed of it." #badenclay
Gerard: I wanted us to be together as a family forever. #badenclay
He said it was over the ensuing years that he tried to break off with Toni on numerous occasions.
Gerard says he was still having an "on again off again" affair with Toni in 2010.
Gerard says when he went to a conference in Sydney, he had a liaison with another woman, while seeing Toni. #badenclay
He got together with another woman, Jackie Crane, that weekend #badenclay
Gerard says Jocelyn approached Toni asking whether she was having an affair with him. She denied it, then acknowledged. #badenclay
Gerard says the partners spoke to him about Toni during the partnership breakdown. #badenclay
Gerard says at one meeting during the floods the "issue of Toni was raised". #badenclay
Gerard: I admitted to them that there were occasions when I was effectively sleeping with Toni for the sake of the business. #badenclay
Gerard says that got back to Toni. "She was quite justifiably very unhappy about it." #badenclay
Gerard says he was at the office and Allison called and said they had to talk. "I sensed straight away what it was about."
He admitted in the meeting there were occasions he was was sleeping with Toni for the sake of the business #badenclay
#badenclay tells court he was sleeping w Toni McHugh 'for the sake of the business' because she was strong sales performer. @7NewsBrisbane
#badenclay tells court he was sleeping w Toni McHugh 'for the sake of the business' because she was strong sales performer. @7NewsBrisbane
Gerard says Allison asked whether he loved Toni. She told him he had to make a choice. #badenclay
Gerard says there was no choice. Allison told him to end it. She didn't want Toni coming back to the business. #badenclay
Gerard says he is not sure what Allison did after that. She might have gone home. He called Toni. #badenclay
Gerard says they met at Toni's unit. He told her Allison had found out and he'd decided to stay with his wife. #badenclay
Allison said "do you love her? I said no." @9NewsBrisbane #badenclay
Gerard says Toni was angry, yelled and screamed, threw things at him, called him "scum of the earth". #badenclay
Gerard says Toni told him she wouldn't return to work. Said he'd ruined three years of her life. #badenclay
Gerard: I tried to calm her down. Says Toni yelled at him to get out, she never wanted to see him again. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni texted him numerous times after he broke it off "all of which Allison saw". #badenclay
Gerard says she tried calling, rang a couple of times from a private number. He said he "basically said nothing, just hung up". #badenclay
Gerard says he heard Toni was "really struggling". Says he felt a great deal of responsibility for that. #badenclay
Gerard says it was around Christmas time. He says he wanted her to know he "didn't hate her". #badenclay
Gerard says he heard Toni was struggling emotionally, felt responsible #badenclay
Gerard says they met at a coffee shop. Toni asked if he loved her. Says she was very fragile. "I told her I did." #badenclay
Gerard says Toni improved a little bit, got a new job. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni didn't like what she was doing. Told him she'd had an anxiety attack at work and passed out. #badenclay
Gerard says he and Toni met on a couple of occasions "and there were two occasions when we did have some physical contact". #badenclay
#badenclay saying he met with Toni xmas 2011. She was fragile, asked if he loved her he said he did, but really he didn't. @9NewsBrisbane
Gerard says he can't remember the last time he saw Toni before Allison's disappearance. Two or three weeks before. #badenclay
Gerard says February, maybe January, 2012, was the last time he had sex with Toni. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni called him, he never called her. He would delete the calls from his call history. #badenclay
Gerard says he would email Toni from his Bruce Overland account. Says he'd set it up years before for real estate things. #badenclay
After Christmas 2011, Gerard and Toni had sex again twice. Allison didn't know. He used fake email address, deleted call records. #badenclay
Baden-Clay said he was still having an on again, off again affair with Toni McHugh at the time.
Gerard says Carmel said Allison needed to ask him any questions about the affair. #badenclay
Gerard says he was a bit resistant at first. Didn't think it was helpful to "have all these issues running round and round" #badenclay
Gerard says Carmel explained that they structure and formalise it to 15 minutes every second night. #badenclay
And I just told her that Al had found out and that I didnt want to be with her, I wanted to be with Allison and the girls, he said.
Gerard says at that point he was doing his best to distance himself from Toni. Wasn't seeing or calling her. #badenclay
"I was doing my best to distance myself from Toni. I wasn't calling her. I was responding to emails that she sent and answering the phone when she called. She would call usually at about 4.30/5 o'clock in the afternoon, because she knew Allison would be at home, or looking after the children," he said.
Gerard says he was responding to her emails and answering her calls. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni was wanting to reconnect and for him to leave Allison. #badenclay
The court is being shown an email from Toni to Gerard, sent on Feb 20, 2012. #badenclay
Gerard says he was encouraging Toni to move overseas and teach. She'd liked Dubai. #badenclay
Gerard says he was trying to encourage Toni to do something else, and preferably "go away". #badenclay
Gerard says Toni had a volatile personality, "expressed a little bit here" in the email. #badenclay
Gerard: In my weakness I tended to roll over and say whatever she wanted to hear. #badenclay
We've resumed. Gerard is talking about his relationship with Toni. #badenclay
The court is being shown an email between Gerard and Toni on March 27, 2012. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni was getting agitated and upset, asked when it was ever going to happen #badenclay
Court shown another email from Toni. Gerard says it was part of the pressure she was putting on him #badenclay
Gerard is asked about "the date" he gave Toni when they would be together. "I don't honestly know where that came from." #badenclay
Gerard says he anticipated that time would come and go and Toni would be frustrated by that. He said he wanted her to leave him. #badenclay
Gerard says he wanted Toni to decide to leave him #badenclay
Jury shown another email from McHugh saying: "Sorry it's up to you to work out and I shouldn't interfere." #badenclay @abcnews
Gerard says he believed Toni could get on with her life better if she was the one to break things off. #badenclay
Gerard shown email he spent to Toni promising to leave his wife by 1 July #badenclay
He thought she'd be able to move on more easily if it were her decision #badenclay
Gerard says Toni was harassing him, he was trying to keep her away, wasn't going to leave his wife #badenclay
Gerard tells Toni he loves her in email. "Leave things to me now." Gerard says he meant none of it, was "trying to calm her down".#badenclay
Another email he wrote to Toni is shown to court, where he says it was agony for him too #badenclay
He says he was doing his best to make sure they didn't meet #badenclay
He says when he wrote 'leave things to me', he was telling Toni to calm down, it was his decision #badenclay
Gerard hoped a 1 July deadline would come and go and Toni would get frustrated that he wasn't leaving #badenclay
Allison mostly wanted to know where Gerard and Toni had been intimate - Gerard #badenclay
Gerard said one of the themes Allison would ask about is where he and Toni had "been intimate". #badenclay
Gerard says he'd already told her he'd had sex with Toni in the Prado and she refused to drive it after that. #badenclay
Allison was stuck on wanting to know where Gerard and Toni had sex #badenclay
Gerard says they would go to movies in Toni's car, he was terrified of being seen. Says they never kissed or hugged in public. #badenclay
He answered that they did drive together, went in Toni's car, had dinner once, he was terrified of being seen #badenclay
#badenclay tells the court he and Toni went to the movies once and to Sushi train but he was terrified of being seen. @7NewsBrisbane
Gerard says on one occasion he and Toni drove together, other times in convoy to "a secluded spot". #badenclay
Gerard says he didn't lie there with Toni afterwards. They just went home, or Gerard would go back to the office and do work. #badenclay
Gerard says Allison asked him to draw the layout of Toni's apartment. #badenclay
Of 'trysts' in car with mistress, Gerard told Allison: "Lie there afterwards? No we didn't. It was really just about the sex." #badenclay
Gerard says Allison asked what they had done for Toni's birthdays. "I can't even remember when Toni's birthday is." #badenclay
#badenclay says he had to explain how he and McHugh had sex in the family car Snowy. Allison didn't want to drive the car again. @abcnews
Gerard says he doesn't remember doing anything for Toni's birthday. #badenclay
There were a couple of occasions they had been to a hotel, Toni had paid - Gerard #badenclay
Allison asked if Toni ever felt bad. She had - Gerard #badenclay
#badenclay says McHugh paid for their trysts in hotels because he didn't want it to show on his credit card. @abcnews
Gerard says Allison asked if Toni had felt bad about him being married. He said yes, but only because Toni wanted him to divorce. #badenclay
Gerard says Toni felt bad because she wanted him to leave Allison #badenclay
Gerard says the "remember one" remark is Allison asking couldn't he remember one of Toni's birthdays. He said he couldn't. #badenclay
She wanted to know more about whether Gerard really regretted the affair #badenclay
Gerard says he had spoken to Toni that afternoon. She called him. At the end of the call, he would delete from call history. #badenclay
There were a number of themes Allison kept revisiting which were predominantly around where Toni and I had been intimate with one another, he said.
He said he only drove together in Ms McHughs car because it was less conspicuous.
Gerard had taken a call from Toni earlier that day but he had deleted the call record from his phone #badenclay
Gerard says at that stage nobody in the family "was aware of the infidelity". He says he asked his dad to leave the house. #badenclay
Gerard told them about the affair with Toni. 'They asked the question and I told them the truth' #badenclay
He said he answered their questions frankly, even telling them about his long-time affair with Ms McHugh.
He said he spoke with Toni McHugh that afternoon but deleted the phone records.
I never called Toni, she called me, and if that ever did happen I would immediately at the end of my call go into the call history and delete those calls from the call history, he said.
Gerard says he had spoken to Toni that afternoon. She called him. At the end of the call, he would delete from call history. #badenclay
