3.15pm: Supreme Court Justice John Byrne has told the jury he is asking for an investigation into an incident that took place over the lunch break involving a journalist and a juror.
“I thank you for drawing it to my attention straight away you have done the right thing in doing so,” he said.
The trial then continued.
Gerard Baden-Clay continued to tell the jury about an email from Toni McHugh to his Bruce Overland account on February 20, 2012.
He said he was “braver” in his dealings with Ms McHugh when they were not face to face.
The jury was shown an email from Ms McHugh to the accused on March 27, 2012.
Baden-Clay said it was an example of Ms McHugh “applying pressure” and encouraging him to leave his wife.
He said he gave Ms McHugh a date of July 1, 2012.
“When we would be together, Toni and I would be together, that was what Toni was asking: ‘when are we going to be together?’,” he said.
But Baden-Clay said he wanted Ms McHugh to leave him.
“In her eyes, I had ended everything with her, when Allison found out about the affair and she was very much the person who was left without a choice in the matter and I felt she would probably be able to get on with her life better and be able to move on if she were making the decision to leave me,” he said.
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