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Update June 28, 2012
Gerard Baden-Clay has lost 13 friends on Facebook, including Premier Campbell Newman, since being arrested for murder of wife Allison
UNFRIENDED- A screenshot of Gerard Baden-Clay’s Facebook page.
However, he still has 372 Facebook friends, including federal Liberal MPs Jane Prentice and Julie Bishop.
A spokeswoman for Mr Newman said the Premier’s old Facebook profile, which has not been used since the election campaign ended, was shut down a couple of weeks ago.
“The closure of the profile means Mr Newman no longer has ‘Facebook friends’,” she said in a statement.
“Instead Mr Newman has a Facebook page, which anyone can like, with requests not requiring approval.”
Prisoners cannot access the internet, but many with Facebook accounts get their family or friends to update their profiles.
It’s been two weeks since Baden-Clay was moved to Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre and he’s yet to be admitted to the typical 3m x 4m cell. He remains in the prison’s medical unit and The Courier-Mail understands he’s had multiple visits from a psychologist.
The only external visitors have been in a two-hour non-contact visit with father Nigel and sister Olivia Walton and about an hour with his lawyer Darren Mahony.
A Queensland Corrective Services spokesman said all prisoners had to be assessed to find out if they were a suicide risk before being imprisoned.
“Prisoner Baden-Clay underwent a medical assessment prior to undergoing an induction,” the spokesman said. “At induction, the prisoner would have been informed about his obligations, rights and entitlements.”
All prisoners are initially placed under observation before entering the mainstream prison system.
Baden-Clay is expected to be given protection status, which is only granted if they are assessed as “at risk of harm within the general prison population”, have an intellectual disability or if charges relate to “serious offences”.
Upon entry, prisoners are issued with prison uniform – a green T-shirt, shorts, tracksuit pants, jumper and joggers.
Baden-Clay is not required to work in prison, but will be encouraged to participate “in some type of meaningful activity”, such as cleaning or kitchen duties, horticulture work or maintenance.
“If a remand prisoner chooses not to work, they must be paid an unemployment allowance – this is $1.30 a week. In addition, a hygiene allowance of $9.55 is payable per week,” a QCS spokesman said.
“If employed, they are paid (depending on the job) from $2.80 to $8.45 per week.”
Baden-Clay reported his wife Allison missing on April 20 and her body was found 10 days later at Kholo Creek in Anstead – 14km away from her Brookfield home.
Update 27/06/12 8.30pm
Police noticed ‘scratches on Baden-Clay’
His defence counsel Peter Davis SC told the court during the bail application that these were from caterpillar bites.
When officers showed up to Gerard Baden-Clay’s home after he reported his wife missing, they couldn’t help but notice deep scratches on his face.
The 41-year-old father of three told them he cut himself with an old shaver but police were not convinced and notified a detective, court documents released on Tuesday show.
The marks on his right cheek appeared similar to fingernail scratches, the detective said in his affidavit submitted during Baden-Clay’s failed bail application in the Supreme Court in Brisbane last Friday.
“They are not straight or clean cuts normally made by a sharp razor blade,” the detective said.
A government medical officer also found the injuries were not consistent with a shaving injury but were instead consistent with fingernail marks.
Baden-Clay, a real estate agent, was arrested on June 13 and charged with murdering his wife Allison, 43, and interfering with her corpse.
Her body was found in a creek bed 10 days after he reported her missing from their Brookfield home, west of Brisbane, on April 20.
More scratches were noticed on his torso and neck during an upper body examination, the court documents say.
His defence counsel Peter Davis SC told the court during the bail application that these were from caterpillar bites.
He did not address the scratches seen on his client’s face.
Mr Davis also argued the police case against his client was weak, with no cause of death identified, no weapon found, and nothing to place his client outside his home on the night his wife disappeared.
Inside the prison where accused wife-killer Gerard Baden-Clay will be held for up to three years
The Sunday Mail (Qld)
THIS is where accused wife-murderer Gerard Baden-Clay will live, possibly for up to three years, as the high-profile case goes through the legal process.
A toilet connected to a sink, a single bed, a mirror, TV, shelf and desk make up a 3m x 4m cell where prisoners spend 12 hours a day inside the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre.
A small window overlooks the nondescript, high-security, prison grounds. Locked prison blocks remain under constant surveillance; thick, secure, doors slam loudly; guards walk freely through long, caged walkways; inmates workout with whatever they can find, pumping chairs like dumbbells.
Morning headcount begins at 6.45am, before a cereal and bread breakfast, followed by gym and activities such as football, tennis and volleyball.
Prisoners can smoke outside of their designated common area, watch TV or make a phone call.
The dinner menu over a week includes sausages in a curry sauce, fresh crumbed chicken, braised lamb chops, beef stroganoff and roast lamb, with meals served from 4.30pm.
Prisoners are locked in their cells two hours later.
The Sunday Mail toured the facility last week, entering the compound where 865 prisoners on remand were processed upon arrival. The five-stage process includes an interview, strip-search and shower.
Some are granted protection status if they are assessed as “at risk of harm within the general prison population”, if charges relate to “serious offences”, if they are bikies or if they have intellectual disabilities. They receive new clothes, toiletries and bedding and then wait in a cell. They are photographed, fill out paperwork for an ID and talk a counsellor about their state of mind. Questions cover how they are likely to cope in prison, family and other external supports and what they are looking forward to when they are freed.
Doctors and nurses examine them in the medical centre. Some high-risk, at-risk prisoners stay in the centre, under continuous observation every 15 or 30 minutes, while lower at-risk prisoners stay in cells under camera observation unit in W Block.
On arrival, prisoners spend at least their first night in an induction unit and get a booklet outlining their daily routine.
The booklet also explains employment, protection status, medical requests, dental services, optometrist appointments, chaplaincy services, discharge as well as requests for a special diet.
Prisoners are allowed a total of 10 CDs and cassette tapes, sunglasses, a kettle, photo albums and photos.
They can receive socks and jocks, plastic hairbrush, singlets, court clothes and five magazines and books through the mail without a request form. Personal and legal visits are set down between 9am and 11am or 1.15pm and 3pm.
Prisoners receive an amenities allowance of $9.55 a week.
A Queensland Corrective Services spokesman said that jobs – including cleaning or kitchen duties, horticulture work in gardens or maintenance – pay $2.80-$8.50 a day.
Money from trust accounts can “buy up” items, including cigarettes, chocolate bars, lollies, chips, nuts, biscuits and two-minute noodles.
Gerard Baden-Clay, charged with the Murder of his wife Allison Baden-Clay
DETAILS have emerged in the murder case against Gerard Baden-Clay from affidavits relied on for his Supreme Court bail application.
The affidavits handed to the court for his Friday bail application included details of text messages Baden-Clay allegedly sent to his wife Allison on the morning he reported her missing where he repeatedly asked where she was.
As part of the investigation, Baden-Clay also provided police with an extensive curriculum vitae, revealing his past schooling and work history.
Details are reproduced below:
Gerard Baden-Clay
- Born September 9, 1970, in Bournemouth, England.
- He spent his younger years in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
- Married to Allison June Baden-Clay (nee Dickie) on 23 August, 1997
- His family (father Nigel, mother Elaine, sister Olivia and brother Adam) came to Australia in 1980 when he was 10 years-old after forming the view that it would be “safer to live in Australia”.
- They initially lived in Melbourne, Victoria, for eight months before settling in Toowoomba in 1981.
- Gerard completed primary school in Toowoomba at Gabbinbar State School.
- He then went to Toowoomba Grammar School until 1987, completing year 12.
- Obtained a tertiary entrance score of 900.
- While at high school, he worked as a waiter at Squatters (a Toowoomba restaurant) and also undertook strawberry and potato picking in Lockyer Valley.
- Represented Toowoomba in hockey in under 17 and under 21 divisions.
- After school, he completed five years in a Bachelor of Business (majoring in accounting and computing) at the now University of Southern Queensland, formerly the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education.
- At the same time, he spent three years with the Australia Army Reserve as a training officer.
- While studying he supplemented his income chipping onions and picking potatoes in the Lockyer Valley and continuing to work as a waiter at the Squatters restaurant.
- From 1991-93 he worked as an accountant in the Audit Division of KPMG Peat Marwick. For approximately 12 months, Gerard worked as a company accountant for Designer Workwear.
- From 1994-97 he worked at Flight Centre, initially as a travel consultant for the first 24-hour division, managing his own outlet. Later, he worked as an office and recruitment systems manager.
- At Flight Centre he met wife Allison and after marrying, they travelled overseas.
- In London, he worked as a Financial Systems Consultant with Blockbuster International for six months while Allison worked with Dale Karnegie Training.
- While overseas, he also worked in the Project Department of Kandersteg International Scouts Centre, Switzerland, as a volunteer for three months. Later, he worked as an assistant director of the International Scouts Centre for 12 months.
- Gerard returned home with Allison in 1999 and went back to Flight Centre as the Global Systems and Communications Manager until the end of 2000.
- After that, he worked at Raine & Horne at Kenmore for 10 months.
- Gerard obtained his real estate agent’s licence during the period from late 2003 to early 2004.
- He started as Principal and Managing Director of Century 21 Westside in 2004, where he remained until his arrest on June 13.
* Source: Gerard Baden-Clay affidavit dated June 21, 2012
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