The Crown v Gerard Baden-Clay, 30th June - Trial Day 12, Week 3

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 8s

Gerard: My loyalty, it doesn't feel right using that word, my loyalty was to Allison and my children. #badenclay

 

[toe]

He is sounding more and more like a compulsive liar.

 

[marlywings]

Allison's words....

"It hurts when my partner won't give me a proper hug.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...n-badenclay-20121217-2biqi.html#ixzz364wjbd3Y

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 45s
Asked if he made promises to Toni, Gerard says he did #badenclay

 

[drsleuth]

Gerard: And I didn't want to jeopardise that. #badenclay


Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 14s

Gerard says Toni was a good salesperson and he was worried about the impact on the business if he separated from her permanently. #badenclay

 

[Amee]

10:46am: Mr Baden-Clay said Ms McHugh often asked him to leave his wife to be with her. He said he refused.

"My loyalty, it doesn't feel right using that word, but my loyalty was to Allison and my children and I didn't want to jeopardise that," he said.

10:44am: About this time Mr Baden-Clay developed a friendship with his then-employee Toni Cheri McHugh.

"We became a bit closer," he said.

"We started a physical relationship that I think for both of us was purely for that at the end of August 2008.

"Business was going great, just brought in two business partners, but I umm, I wasn't, I didn't have any physical intimacy and we started our relationship."

"It started one night in the office when we were both working back and I would have gone back to the office ... and on a couple of occasions we actually met up and had a tryst, I suppose, in my car, which was the Prado, [named] Snowy."

The affair was volatile. The pair would break up for weeks and months and a time.

"But we would always recommence," Mr Baden-Clay said.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/que...y-12-week-4-20140630-3b2vi.html#ixzz364xkhTSO

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 30s
Gerard says Toni was volatile with her moods, he was concerned about the impact on the business if they separated #badenclay

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 51s

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

 

[Timmy]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · 8s

Gerard: My loyalty, it doesn't feel right using that word, my loyalty was to Allison and my children. #badenclay

He's right..... LOYALTY is not the right word!

 

[Amee]

Baden-Clay said he became the president of the Kenmore Chamber of Commerce in 2005.

He said he would take his eldest daughter with him to breakfast meetings to give his wife some respite at home.

The accused said communication between him and his wife deteriorated.

“Unfortunately it deteriorated quite dramatically and the main reason for that was Allison was putting a lot of her best efforts into the children, which was great on one hand, it gave her some positives in her life but that effort … and if we ever went out, her putting on the facade of being together, was very draining for her,” he said.

Baden-Clay said his wife was still taking medication.

“It certainly assisted with the depths of her depression and anxiety … the medication is an antidepressant so it assists with smoothing out those lower ends of mood it does, unfortunately, tend to knock off the upper ends, as well … great elation … gets sort of blunted by the medication as well,” he said.

He said his wife was a lovely, energetic person when they first met.

“She had a love of life and was very sociable but she became much more withdrawn through that period,” he said, through tears.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226971633938

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 42s
I'd say whatever she wanted to hear - Gerard #badenclay on Toni McHugh @couriermail


Katrina Blowers ‏@katrinablowers 1m
#badenclay: "As time went on she wanted me to divorce Allison and start a life with her." @7NewsBrisbane

 

[wewillgetyou]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 1m
Toni left her partner, Gerard was concerned #badenclay


David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 46s
'For me it was only really a physical relationship.' Gerard on relationship with Toni of more than three years #badenclay @couriermail

If that's true why were they having birthday portraits taken together. The senior BC's knew about the affair.
That photo we saw of them cleaning up the BC house after the floods.

What a liar !

 

[Amee]

She was just like, sort of a blurry image of herself, if that makes sense.”

Baden-Clay said his wife suffered a loss of libido after taking the Zoloft and put on weight.

He said their sex life became non-existent.

He said his wife was very keen to have a son.

“I think she wanted a son for my sake. She wanted to be able to continue the Baden-Clay name. Each time we’d been pregnant with the other two children, we’d always…,” he dried his eyes with a hanky.

Baden-Clay said he did not want another child.

“After the challenges that Allison had been through with her previous pregnancies, all three of them, and potentially the financial pressures and that sort of thing we were in a little town house and we’d potentially have to move … I wasn’t keen and we discussed it at length and she became quite depressed about that,” he said.

“I just wanted to make her happy. I’d always just wanted her to be happy and um, so, we agreed in the end, and as soon as she found out she was pregnant her mood lightened immeasurably,” he said.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226971633938

 

[drsleuth]

Kate Kyriacou @KateKyriacou · now

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

 

[Amee]

10.15am: The accused is in the witness box wearing a suit, white collared shirt and a blue/green patterned tie.

In evidence-in-chief questioning from barrister Michael Byrne QC, Baden-Clay said he and his wife were successful professionally following the birth of their second daughter but personally “it was quite challenging”.

He told the jury he went back to work to earn some income but it put some strain on his wife.

Baden-Clay said he would arrive home by 5pm for “what we called in our house “happy hour’’.

He said he fed his daughters, bathed them and put them to bed.

“Most occasions I would do the majority of that routine, on many occasions Allison would go to bed pretty much as soon as I walked in the door,” he said.

He said towards the end of 2004 he and his wife determined they could start their own business.

“I went and got a full real estate’s licence, my father did as well and we started a Century 21 franchise in Kenmore from scratch. We had nothing,” he said.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226971633938

 

[PrimeSuspect]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 31s
Toni went overseas at one stage, he thought it would be the circuit breaker but she returned - Gerard #badenclay

 

[DrWatson]

Now he's really doing a number on Toni McH - I wonder if she will come forward with more evidence, having heard this tripe? Can she do that? Can she "spill beans" to the police, who in turn could inform the prosecution, at this stage?

 

[Mrs G Norris]

So how do we think he's going on the charm offensive today? Not too good hey? Taking the stand, huge mistake IMO.

 

[Amee]

Baden-Clay said it was a more comprehensive qualification that allowed him to run the real estate business and operate a trust account to handle client’s funds.

He said he started it with himself, his parents and a receptionist.

“When we first started it was just the four of us,” he said.

Baden-Clay said the business very quickly became successful.

“We had two young children and Allison wasn’t really coping very well with that and with me then having to work, so I was at work all day, we’d come home at 5pm for happy hour and have the children asleep by 7pm so I could, if need be, meet evening clients from 7.30pm,” he said.

He said his wife would often call during the day to say she needed him.

“I could be home within five to 10, 15 minutes tops, pretty much from wherever I was at that time,” he said.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...-allison-in-2012/story-fnihsrf2-1226971633938

 

[Trooper]

David Murray ‏@TheMurrayD 30s
Gerard says Toni was volatile with her moods, he was concerned about the impact on the business if they separated #badenclay

I just don't know how much of this unintentional comedy I can take.. its like some kid has sat down at a typewriter and banged away telling a story that he thinks is like the life of the rich and famous.......

Gerard is an insult to peoples intelligence..