FLASHPOINT: The Indooroopilly gym where Allison Baden-Clay came face-to-face with her husband's lover Toni McHugh, and Ms McHugh's witness statement detailing the meeting. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
FACE to face in a suburban gym, Allison Baden-Clay and her husband's mistress Toni McHugh stared mutely at each other.
The pair had rarely crossed paths before the chance encounter, which came just weeks after Mrs Baden-Clay found out about her husband's affair. Court documents, lodged as part of accused killer Gerard Baden-Clay's failed bail application on Friday, reveal how both women were lost for words.
"Nothing was said, we just looked at one another," Ms McHugh says in one of four signed police statements.
After the encounter, both women vented their anger on Baden-Clay in text messages.
"I may have used the term that Allison was a lady of leisure in the text message," Ms McHugh told police.
"Gerard never showed me or told me what she had said, just that she had sent him an abusive text message."
Three alleged affairs, including a relationship with a woman named for the first time as Jackie Crane, and their impact on his troubled marriage are also detailed.
Baden-Clay maintains his innocence on charges of murdering his wife.
Defence barrister Peter Davis SC claimed at the bail hearing the Crown case was weak and Mrs Baden-Clay may have taken her own life.
Mr Davis told the court a witness saw a woman walking in the Brookfield area at around 5.30am on the day she disappeared and an autopsy found high levels of her anti-depressant medication that could indicate suicide.
In her statements to police, Ms McHugh details how Baden-Clay continued to contact her after he reported his wife missing from their Brookfield home on April 20.
Baden-Clay had allegedly committed to leaving his wife for Ms McHugh, but their complicated relationship unravelled after the disappearance. In one frosty phone call with Baden-Clay on May 27, Ms McHugh confronted him about another affair.
"The conversation did not go well. When I answered the phone, Gerard said, 'It's me'. I think I went straight into, 'I know what you've been doing. How could you do that to me?'
"Gerard admitted that he had been in a relationship with Jackie Crane and another woman. I basically asked him why I should give him any time to explain. Gerard agreed that he shouldn't have any time to explain.
"Gerard then told me that he loved me. He again said that he did not know what went wrong there and that he believed the police would find the killer," she said.
He told her he would phone her at work the next day, but didn't make the call.
Ms McHugh, a 41-year-old mother of two, admitted to the affair in her first statement to police the day after Baden-Clay reported his wife missing.
She told police how she was in a long-term relationship when she first met Baden-Clay through the sale of her home around 2006. As Century 21 Westside principal, Baden-Clay was the agent selling her home and hired her as a property consultant in April 2007.
"When I first started working with Gerard, there was definitely chemistry for me. I admired him. I was attracted to him," she told police.
After the affair allegedly started in August 2008, Ms McHugh left her partner and would refer to Baden-Clay as "GM" for gorgeous man. He referred to her as "GG" for gorgeous girl.
They would secretly meet on a quiet dirt road at Pullenvale, in Baden-Clay's Century 21 office at Kenmore and at her home in the inner western suburbs.
On two occasions she went to Baden-Clay's Brookfield home while Allison and the children were away.
Ms McHugh said in "a lot of ways Gerard did defend Allison", who he said had severe bouts of depression, but also did not express admiration or a depth of feeling towards his wife. He also raised fears his wife would take her life if he left her.
"Gerard told me that he did not love Allison and they had not slept together for many years. Gerard told me that he slept most nights on the couch in the living room," Ms McHugh told police.
The affair continued for more than three years until ending abruptly on October 14 last year after "someone at the school canteen" was told of the affair and informed Mrs Baden-Clay. They broke off the relationship but were allegedly seeing each other again within months, until Allison's disappearance.
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