The Crown v Gerard Baden-Clay, 1st July - Trial Day 13, Week 3

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I didn’t realise it was the Indooroopilly Police Station I had in my phone and so, I just hung up.”

He said his sister texted him and he called her back.

“She just called to say … ‘I’m in the car, where does Al normally walk? What routes does she take?’ And that’s when I told her and she said ‘righto, I’ll go there straight away’,” he said.

Baden-Clay agreed he phoned his wife again at 7.02am.

“I kept getting her voicemail and you can see they were very short calls, so I probably just said ‘please call, please’ or something like that,” he said.

He said he kept calling because he thought the noise of the phone would attract her attention more.

The accused said either his father or his daughters made a call from the home phone at Brookfield to his wife’s mobile.

“Pretty much as soon as Dad got home, I don’t know exactly when that would have been, but it would have been around 7am because he called at 6.56am and he was on his way,” he said.

“I basically, when he arrived, I went out pretty much straight away.”

Baden-Clay said he called his sister and they updated one another on what was happening.

He said his sister asked him what his wife was wearing.

“She was just telling me where she’d been so I could make sure I wasn’t, you know, we weren’t sort of crossing over each other’s search areas, that we were doubling up,” he said.

The accused said he sent a text to his wife’s mobile and then made a call to his staff member Kate Rankin, who had planned to attend the real estate conference with his wife that day.

“I tried to call Kate just to find out what their plans were for the day, and it appears as though I didn’t get through to her and then she’s called me straight back,” he said.

“I wondered if maybe Al had just walked to her house or something.”

Baden-Clay said he called his sister again and asked her if she thought it was too early to phone police.

He said he first dialled Police Link then, growing impatient with the automated voiceover, called 000.

“I still didn’t think it was an emergency situation so I just called that general number … and it seemed to be going on forever and … then I called the emergency number,” he said, sobbing and then blowing his nose loudly.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226972945594
 
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 21s

Gerard is pointing out the carport area. He says two of girls' rooms are above the garage because of the way the ground slopes. #badenclay

Gerard says the carport area is open on three sides. #badenclay
 
  • #223
Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 42s

There is also one more message or call from Toni, but Gerard says 'I can't comment on that. I don't know anything about that' #badenclay

Hmm, so maybe he did not tell Allison about Toni being at the conference, maybe a text message alerted this to Allison. Fight began.........
 
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Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 2m

There is a pause as Gerard confirms where each of the girls slept, where their pillows were in relation to doors, etc #badenclay
 
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I'm not 100% convinced that the bcs knew from the outset and am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Having said that I do think that many times their behaviour has been odd.
What pushes me more to the doubt side though is why gbc called his family and his friends before calling Al's friends or family. It's pretty obvious that Allison and the bcs were not that close, so why call them before Kerry?

Yes his whole approach seems to be "who do i need to tell (that A is missing and never coming back) vs "who do i need to talk to to find her asap!"
Even his language seems more about notifying ppl rather than trying to find her.
 
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Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 55s

The jury is now looking at photographs of where the cars - Sparky and Snowy - were parked #badenclay
 
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 10s

The court is being shown a picture of front of the house. Gerard is pointing out his daughter's window, overlooks carport roof. #badenclay

Gerard says Allison had reverse parked the Captiva in the carport on April 19. #badenclay

Back on the house plans now, Gerard is talking about the garage, carport and under house storage. #badenclay
 
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Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 49s

Sparky is therefore the car Allison preferred to drive #badenclay
 
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Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 32s

The jury is now looking at the plan of the underground storage, under the Baden Clay house #badenclay
 
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 30s

Back on the house plans now, Gerard is talking about the garage, carport and under house storage. #badenclay
 
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David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
He says he reversed the Captiva into the garage after looking for Allison that morning #badenclay


Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 1m
#badenclay says he used Sparky to go looking for his wife on the 20th. when he returned he reversed it into carport. @abcnews


Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 1m
Gerard has become adept at using the electronic screen in the witness box to 'draw' on exhibits to illustrate his point #badenclay
 
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Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 50s

The jury is now looking at an aerial photograph of the neighbourhood #badenclay
 
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Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 45s
#badenclay now being taken through aerial photograph of Brookfield. Points out house on Brookfield Road. @abcnews
 
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 59s

The court is being shown an aerial photograph of Brookfield. Gerard has located his house. #badenclay
 
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Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 43s

Gerard is pointing out the house. He is no longer crying #badenclay
 
  • #238
Totally off-topic and irrelevant, but for those who follow such things and love unsolved mysteries - Allison's birthday today is also shared by Princess Di

Today is a popular day. I also have 2 friends whose birthdays are today.

Happy Birthday to all who have a Birthday today. But especially to Allison, and special thoughts to her family and particularly her parents and Children- today would be especially hard to face. I only hope they are able to share some happy memories of Allison today, amongst all the other things.
 
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Caroline Overington ‏@overingtonc 49s

Gerard is tracing the route Allison liked to walk in the morning #badenclay
 
  • #240
If the conference was so big how did Toni definitively know by lunch time Allison wasn’t there?
 
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