A packed court room has heard accused wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay's bid to be home for Christmas
THESE are the facial injuries that confronted police when they first arrived to talk to Gerard Baden-Clay about his missing wife.
Documents released by the Supreme Court last night show the major police focus on the wounds on Baden-Clay's right cheek as the search began for his wife Allison.
The father of three, who maintains his innocence, told officers he cut himself shaving but the prosecution says the marks are consistent with fingernail scratches.
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Photographs of the prominent scratches are contained in a report by senior Queensland Health forensic medical officer Robert Hoskins, who was asked by police to comment on the facial injuries.
The report was among a batch of documents released last night by the Supreme Court following Baden-Clay's unsuccessful bail application on charges he murdered Allison.
Mr Hoskins was provided with photographs of Baden-Clay taken at about 10am on April 20, the day he reported his wife missing, and the following day. He was also provided with images of the razor said to have been used by Baden-Clay.
The medical officer was asked to comment on the "possibility that they were caused by the use of a Gillette Mach III razor".
Images from evidence which has emerged from Gerard Baden-Clay's second bail hearing.
He relied on information that Baden-Clay woke at 6.15am, could not have shaved earlier and "is said to have used a blunt razor hastily".
The injuries appeared to have been caused "between about 6 and about 24 hours earlier" than the photographs taken on the 20th April.
"This means it is highly unlikely that they occurred after 6.15am," he wrote in a July 19 report.
"The main facial injuries have all the hallmarks of fingernail scratches.
"It is impossible for me or anyone else to say that they were caused by fingernails: they could, for instanced (sic), also have been caused by scratching with the blunt end of a pencil from which a rubber had been removed.
"In over 50 years of life and 30 years in medical practice I have never seen nor heard of injuries of this type being caused by the modern type of disposable razor or razor blade.
"Each of the main injuries has features making it implausible that it was caused by shaving. The main injuries were not caused at the same time as the more trivial injuries. Those more trivial injuries are fairly characteristic of razor cuts."
In a separate document, Baden-Clay's barrister Peter Davis says the scratches were circumstantial and there was no definitive cause and age of the marks.
The released bail documents also provide details for the first time of Baden-Clay's emergency call to report his wife missing at 7.15am on April 20.
Copy of images from evidence which has emerged from Gerard Baden-Clay's second bail hearing.
"I don't want to be alarmist. I tried the 131 number but it went on forever," he told the operator. "My, my wife isn't home . . . I don't know where she is."
Asked when he last saw her, he said the previous night.
Allison's diary: The days before she disappeared
Bail fail: Gerard Baden-Clay to spend Christmas behind bars
As it happened: Baden-Clay's second bail application
"And I got up ah this morning and she, she wasn't there. And that's not unusual. She, she often goes for a walk in the morning . . . I've texted her and called her a number of times."
Baden-Clay told the operator his wife had a seminar in the city and she was planning to leave by 7am.
"I'm now driving the streets. My, my father's come over and, to look after the children," he said.
Responding to questions from the operator, he described his wife and says has "blondey, browney, redish" hair just "done" the previous night.
Copy of images from evidence which has emerged from Gerard Baden-Clay's second bail hearing.
The operator committed to putting a broadcast out for police to look for Allison and said officers would be out to see him.
One of the first officers to respond to the emergency call was Constable Kieron Ash from Indooroopilly station.
In a witness statement, he said he arrived at the Baden-Clay's Brookfield residence at about 8am with Constable Leah Hammond.
Constable Ash said he first saw a woman he now knows to be Baden-Clay's sister Olivia Walton walk three children down the stairs and put them in a car.
Baden-Clay told Constable Ash his wife went for a walk each morning for around 2km but he was not sure what time she got up that morning because she "sometimes slept on the couch" or in another room.
"I then asked Gerard if everything was OK between him and Allison? Gerard then said 'Look there is something I should tell you'. He then explained . . . he had recently admitted to having an affair with another female. Gerard said 'because I have had an affair things aren't great between Allison and I . . . she no longer trusts me'."
Baden-Clay asked for the information to be kept confidential "stating that his father and sister did not know" about the affair.
Constable Ash asked Baden-Clay how he came to get the scratches on his face, the statement says.
"He said 'I cut myself shaving this morning as I was in a hurry, trying to get the girls ready'," the documents say.
Inside the house Constable Ash "could not see any evidence of tissues, towels or blood that was consistent with Gerard previously stating that the scratches on his face was a shaving cut he had received that morning".
Outside the house, Constable Ash made a phone call to a senior officer and said he was "uncomfortable with the version" Baden-Clay had offered, the statement says.
Two senior officers arrived at 8.45am and began talking to Baden-Clay, whose sister Ms Walton returned to the home.
"I asked her what the girls had been told this morning," Constable Ash said.
"She said 'that Gerard told the girls shortly after 6am that mummy had gone for a walk and probably fell down a hole (and) would not be back'."
Other released documents reveal Baden-Clay went to the Kenmore Clinics Medical Practice at 8.30am the day after reporting his wife missing. He asked Dr Candice Beaven to look at cuts on his face.
"He told Dr Beaven that police had advised him to have his injuries documented," the documents state.
"No police officer on the brief stated that they advised the applicant to do this."
That afternoon, Baden-Clay went to a clinic in Taringa and again asked a doctor to look at scratches.
That night he was examined a third time on this occasion.
Allison's diary: The days before she disappeared
Bail fail: Gerard Baden-Clay to spend Christmas behind bars
As it happened: Baden-Clay's second bail application
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