The Crown v Gerard Baden-Clay, 26th June - Trial Day 11, Week 3

[BreakingNews]

3:37pm: Speaking about his wife's apparent depression Mr Baden-Clay said: "I cared about her. I didn't want to interrogate her."



3:35pm: Mr Baden-Clay has taken the time to list all the countries he and his wife visited in South America.

He has also listed which tourist sights they visited and which places they frequented.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...y-11-week-3-20140626-3aumz.html#ixzz35il9XE4E

How many countries? Was he trying out for the 100 club?

 

[drsleuth]

He really is a few tools short of the tool box :banghead:

 

[Amee]

3:42pm: Mrs Baden-Clay's parents, Priscilla and Geoff Dickie, are seated in the front row of the public gallery.

Mr Baden-Clay's younger sister Olivia Walton is seated on the opposite side of the public gallery.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...y-11-week-3-20140626-3aumz.html#ixzz35imbnGok

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 22s

Gerard says he was looking at applying for the director's position at the scout centre. He and Allison went off to do a training course.

Gerard says they then returned home for Christmas, 1999. While they were home, they were both offered good opportunities at Flight Centre.

 

[Neuromancer]

I agree but if you knocked yourself and bled in your car, you would clean it up. And you would probably tell your kids or other half about it.

And from the position of the bloodstain- it was made when the seats were down flat, not when someone was sitting there. You can see where the blood has clotted along a horizontal line.

 

[drsleuth]

Wait......his sacking from flight center must be coming up soon...........

 

[Freya1977]

Sarah Elks ‏@sarahelks 49s

Early 1999, #badenclay says Allison was "very anxious" about avalanches at Swiss scouts centre. "She was out of action for a couple of days"

 

[itsthevibe]

I'm not saying he didn't do it, I am on the fence. Cause of death hasn't been given, the botanist was thorough but that doesn't point to foul play imo.
I'm just saying that comments here are quite snarky and that doesn't really leave a lot of room for having an open mind.

You are entitled to your views absolutely. I think the thing is that many people here have been discussing this for 2 years and examining all facts put forward to date and have also started with an open mind, but eventually moved on to forming a strong opinion. They are also entitled to do that. It's something people are understandably passionate about.

For my part I feel that the version GBC is putting forward may be true to a point, but that it is cleverly designed to paint a picture of himself as very human, very caring, and very much a victim. I don't believe it proves he is innocent, although it is very emotive. And he has the advantage that Allison isn't here to put forward her side of things.

 

[Amee]

3.15pm: Gerard Baden-Clay has taken the stand, telling the jury he was 43 and married to his wife Allison since August, 1997.

“When she went missing it would have been coming up to our 14th wedding anniversary,” he said.

Barrister Michael Byrne QC: “Did you kill Allison?”

Gerard Baden-Clay: “No I did not.”

He said he did not leave his children alone in the house to go to Kholo Creek: “Definitely not, never.”

He said he did not take step to dispose of his wife’s body or clean up afterwards.

Baden-Clay: “We were planning on spending the rest of our lives together… after the infidelity I had in the past.”

He said he got the marks on his cheek from shaving on April 20, 2012.

“Never,” he said, when asked if he was ever scratched by his wife.

Baden-Clay said he was vice president of the Brookfield State School P & C and on committees for the kindergarten his children went to.

He said he first met his wife at Flight Centre.

“We both worked at Flight Centre. Allison had worked at Flight Centre for some years, she had originally been a consultant at one of the offices in the city…,” he said.

“I joined flight centre after some years in accounting and felt that it really didn’t suit me and I joined because a friend of mine who Imet at KPMG, Ian Walton, spoke to me and said it was a great opportunity, so I went to Flight Centre in 1994.”

He said he joined the company as a consultant and lived with his brother Adam and parents at Wavell Heights.

“I joined as a sales consultant at the Toombul Flight Centre…,” he said.

Baden-Clay said he provided travel advice and booked tickets for airfares and accommodation.

He said he “fell in love with the company” and was quickly asked to start a new component of the company as a national manager on George St in Brisbane


http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226966924597

 

[DrWatson]

I can also see now why Byrne didn't make an opening address. He wanted to see just what the prosecution were going to present, and then work all the answers into the long-winded opening address he just gave today. Clever..!

 

[JK673]

Wait......his sacking from flight center must be coming up soon...........

do we know why he was sacked??

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[Cattail]

It is very interesting to hear only Alison's failings, nothing about how clever, beautiful and loving she was but more about her anxiety, depression, mood fluctuations, nervousness - this must be very telling for the jury. More a justification than a recollection of their early life together.

TBH what he is describing rings true for me as symptoms of depression I have seen. It is a disease not a fault in a person.

 

[Amee]

I started with a handful of staff and we grew to about eight at that point,” he said.

He said his future wife worked in the desk directly above his on the next floor, as the human resources manager.

He said he met his future wife in 1995. He said she had been engaged previously.

Baden-Clay said he helped Allison Baden-Clay with computer problems and “we became friendly”.

He said he arranged for Ms Baden-Clay to meet his friend over dinner at a conference in Cairns and instead, he hit it off with her.

Baden-Clay said they started dating that weekend.

He said his wife’s mother was the eldest of 10 children and they had a tradition where they would meet together for Christmas.

Baden-Clay said he met her family at Christmas in 1995 when the dinner was held at his future wife’s parents home, Geoff and Priscilla Dickie.

He said there were 50 people there and he felt quite overwhelmed.

Baden-Clay said his own extended family was quite small and lived mostly overseas.

“I fell in love with her,” he said of his wife and began to cry in the witness box.

Baden-Clay dabbed his face with a hanker chief.

“I fell in love with her pretty well straight away and I had had a couple of girlfriends previously but I felt a level of emotional attachment to Allison that was far deeper than ever before and because of that I knew she was the one,” he said.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226966924597

 

[marlywings]

Peta said ball in your court. Force me to look to you - think that's where you wanted me."

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...y-10-week-3-20140625-3aqx5.html#ixzz35imayWPT

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
When they had left previously in 97, Allison was global head of human resources - Gerard #badenclay


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
Fight Centre started to see they needed to develop an Internet business. A team was out together - Gerard #badenclay

 

[Amee]

We were planning a trip to Europe later in the year and there was talk of going to Paris or something like that and it seemed a… I didn’t want an experience in Paris where she would be wondering on every street corner whether this would be wondering if this was the moment…

“I was incredibly nervous. I actually proposed to her underneath the Eiffel tower of Park Road. She was quite taken aback because I think she had been engaged before and probably psychologically she was preparing herself for some months hence and was completely taken by surprise so she actually asked for a week to think about it.”

He said they drove down to her parents to break the news to them afterwards.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226966924597

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · now

Gerard says he was asked by Flight Centre to be involved in the internet side of the business as it was being developed. #badenclay

Gerard says this meant their plans to return to Switzerland were put aside. #badenclay

 

[BreakingNews]

“From where I’m sitting,
I AM the centre of the Universe!”
― Sebastyne Young

 

[bikerchick]

Anyone else feel that this bunch of hooey is disrespectful to what appeared to be a completely sane , but struggling woman ?


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[Mrs G Norris]

Has he managed to spell out the connection to the Scouts yet? It is crucial the jury understand this!