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

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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.

Yes it is, and she may have been suffering from it way back then. But my point was that when he was recollecting his honeymoon you would think he would have also highlighted loving, endearing and tender moments in their relationship as well....I am sure there must have been. If he had done so, his account would have appeared to be more honest and truthful and not a means to an end.
 
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Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 45s
In June 2000, the #badenclay couple decided Allison would give up work because his job was so good @abcnews


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
We always looked at the positives, maybe being made redundant was a sign - Gerard #badenclay


Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 1m
#badenclay says by August 2000 he was made redundant. @abcnews
 
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 8s

Gerard says they sold "a bunch of our shares" on September 11, worried that the terror attack would hit the travel industry. #badenclay

Gerard says after the birth of their first daughter, Allison's anxiety returned. #badenclay
 
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Why is he saying she was not able to communicate? She probably didn't WANT to communicate! :twocents:

Exactly "Just snap out of it!"
 
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He is giving the jury his usual 'BIO' speech carefully prepared over the years to suit the occasion/audience be it the PTA (?) the opening of the Royal Show or the local CWA....
It is about HIM, HIS life, HIS story, Allison just happened to be there from time to time.
 
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Jamie McKinnell ‏@jamie86 1m

Gerard #badenclay is tying his recollection of marriage/travels to news events inc. Princess Diana's death and Sydney Olympics @NewsTalk4BC
 
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 25s

Gerard said in August he was made redundant. Both he and his boss, the first Flight Centre people to be made redundant. #badenclay


Gerard says at this point both he and Allison were unemployed.

Gerard says they both had a number of shares in Flight Centre.

Wasn't he sacked?
Correct me if Im wrong - later ;)
 
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Seriously, imagine being on the jury. He is just giving them an inside into things that have taken us two years to find out.
 
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Francene Norton ‏@francenenorton 1m
#badenclay says he and Allison went to the Sydney Olympics. Their first child was an "Olympic baby". @abcnews


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
After the birth of their first daughter, some of Allison's anxiety returned - Gerard #badenclay
 
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Objection.

Relevance?


(rinse and repeat)
 
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3.46pm: Baden-Clay told the jury he was in a caravan park in New Zealand with Allison when they decided to build a business together.

He said they kissed on the top of a set of steps when they first met and got married at St Mary’s Church at Kangaroo Point in 1997.

He told the jury he and his new wife went on a honeymoon at the Maldives. He said they stopped at Kuala Lumpur on the way, then afterwards visited Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Spain, Portugal and Morocco and spent a few weeks travelling in the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany.

Baden-Clay told the jury they visited a scout camp in Switzerland and applied to work there as volunteers.

He said they visited his grandparents in Somerset in the United Kingdom and he worked at Blockbuster International in London and worked there for around six months in 1998.

He said his wife got a job with Dale Carnegie training.

“She lived the typical monopoly board lifestyle in London and would catch the tube to work…,” he said.

Baden-Clay said his friend Ian Walton met his sister Olivia at their wedding.

He said they returned home for the weddings of two friends in July of that year and then flew back to Switzerland.

He told the jury he and his wife planned to go to South America and got a number of vaccinations before their trip from a local doctor.

“The one thing neither of us ever had cause to have before…we’d never had to deal with malaria before,” he said.

Baden-Clay said the doctor recommended a daily dose, as well as Lariam, which was taken weekly.

“Dr Mills informed us of potential side effects and one of those was it could cause episodes for people with mental challenges… Allison and I both looked at each other and thought, well that’s not us,” he said.

He said the drug had a dramatic effect on his wife in 1998. “The trip that we went on was a truck tour where you basically travel on a converted truck/bus and… that truck trip started in Rio and traversed east to west across South America and ended in Quito in Ecuador,” he said.

“At that time some of those places were fairly unsettled… Rio is an enormous city and it has some unsavoury parts to it and Allison was potentially a little bit nervous.

He said his wife became quite withdrawn

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226966924597
 
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How many times have his buddies in AG heard this piffle?

They confess just so they can be moved elsewhere.
 
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Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 33s

Gerard said he had organised to lead an overseas tour and was doing a remote first aid course when Sept 11 happened. #badenclay

Gerard said Allison "was not great, not right, immediately after that". #badenclay



Gerard: It was a progressive thing that became worse. #badenclay

Gerard said he'd set up an office in their garage. Allison would have a panic attack if he left the house. #badenclay

Gerard says Allison was "desperately keen" to breastfeed the baby.
 
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It was a fairly close environment being on a truck or a bus together, so there were social activities all the time… sometimes she was fully engaged and involved with everybody and other times she was completely withdrawn, complaining of headaches and that sort of thing,” he said.

“The worse thing of that withdrawal attitude or manifestation was, we were at a town in Potosi… Allison could not get out of bed… and she was just couldn’t get out of bed, just completely, not unresponsive, it wasn’t as though she was comatose, but she was curled up in bed and didn’t want to go anywhere.

“I said we should call the doctor and she said `no, she didn’t feel sick… I just don’t want to go out today’.”

Baden-Clay said he’d never seen his wife like that before.

“The next day she woke up normal more or less, as though nothing happened and I was delighted but also confused as to why that was,” he said.

“That sort of mood fluctuation continued throughout the trip.”

He said they stayed with friends in Quito and there was a day when his wife seemed well and a day when she did not.

Baden-Clay said his wife didn’t seem to know why she was feeling the way she was.

He said they went to the Galapagos Islands and his wife became very anxious again.

“She was just not great at certain times, at other times, she was fine,” he said.

Baden-Clay said they went to New York, then back to England where Ms Baden-Clay “crashed”.

“We took her to (a) hospital… and that was the first time we became aware of the possibility of the Lariam being a trigger for the episodes Allison had been having,” he said.

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