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Wrap: The first day of the trial has heard Mr Baden-Clay was under financial stress and embroiled in an illicit affair when he allegedly murdered his wife of 15 years Allison Baden-Clay.
The 43-year-old real estate agent pleaded not guilty to murder, as his highly-anticipated trial began before a packed Brisbane courtroom.
Crown prosecutor Mr Fuller told the jury the case against Mr Baden-Clay was a circumstantial one, which rests on his affair and financial debt as motivating factors for the killing.
Mrs Baden-Clay’s body was found on the banks of Kholo Creek, 14 kilometres from her home in the leafy western Brisbane hamlet of Brookfield, 10 days after she disappeared.
Confronting crime scene photographs showing Mrs Baden-Clay’s swollen and decomposing body on the muddied banks of Kholo Creek were shown to the court as Mr Fuller launched his opening address.
Mr Fuller said Thursday April 19, 2012, began unlike any other for the Baden-Clay family.
The couple’s daughters attended their school’s cross-country carnival. Mr Baden-Clay and his sister Olivia Walton, who was visiting from Townsville, watched the girls compete.
Meanwhile, Mrs Baden-Clay had attended a meeting at the couple’s real estate agency at Targina, where she was the general manager, before going to a hairdressing appointment at 4pm and then meeting her friend Kerri-Anne Walker for dinner.
Mr Baden-Clay bought sausages for dinner, which he ate at his parent’s house, with his daughters and sister.
He would later tell police he left his wife watching television in their living room when he went to bed about 10pm.
He told police he woke the next morning to find her missing.
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