Baden-Clay to face trial: 'I am not guilty'

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COURT: Photograph of injuries police found on Gerard Baden-Clay on the day he reported his wife Allison missing. Source: Supplied

GERARD Baden-Clay has been committed to stand trial for the murder of his wife Allison.

11.27am: Gerard Baden-Clay's sister Olivia Walton briefly addressed the media outside court.

''I still believe my brother is an innocent man,'' she said.

''And I will continue to support him."

11.11am: Court has now adjourned.

11.10am: Chief Magistrate Brendan Butler asked Gerard Baden-Clay to stand while charges were read against him and asked whether he had anything to say.

''I am not guilty your honour,'' he said.

COURT: Photograph of injuries police found on Gerard Baden-Clay on the day he reported his wife Allison missing.

Chief Magistrate Butler asked Baden-Clay to move forward in the dock while the charges were read against him so he could be seen by those in the public gallery.

11.08am: Gerard Baden-Clay has been committed to stand trial for the murder of his wife Allison.

''I'm of the opinion the evidence is sufficient to put the defendant on trial,'' Chief Magistrate Brendan Butler said.

He said it would be unwise for the public to draw any conclusions from the examination of a limited number of witnesses who appeared during the committal proceedings.

11.06am: Defence barrister Peter Davis says while his client ''vehemently denies'' the charges against him, they consent to him being committed to trial.

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11.05am: The police officer who arrested Gerard Baden-Clay said he was not aware of a NSW blood expert named in the police running sheet.

Detective Sergeant Cameron McLeod, from Indooroopilly, said he was aware of advice police received from the expert but not what it was or whether it was relevant.

'I'm aware of a blood expert had provided some advice in relation to the vehicle but I'm not aware of his name or the nature of his advice,'' he said.

10.53am: Another detective has denied telling Gerard Baden-Clay's mistress Toni McHugh about two other women he had been having affairs with.

Detective Sergeant Christopher Canniffe, based at Indooroopilly, told the court he had only spoken to Ms McHugh on one occasion and had not told her about the other women.

COURT: Photograph of injuries police found on Gerard Baden-Clay on the day he reported his wife Allison missing.

Defence barrister Peter Davis asked whether Det Sgt Canniffe was aware of the other women.

''I'm aware of (one),'' he said.

''Specifically someone told me during the investigation but I'm not sure who,'' he said.

''Did you speak to McHugh about that?'' Mr Davis asked.

''No,'' he replied.

The court also heard the detective seized footage from Channel 9 shot at the Baden-Clay house but it was found to have no value.

COURT: Photograph of injuries police found on Gerard Baden-Clay's face on the day he reported his wife Allison missing.

10.40am: Seven photographs of injuries police found on Gerard Baden-Clay's face, neck, chest and hand on the day he reported his wife Allison missing have been released by the Brisbane Magistrates' Court.

Chief Magistrate Brendan Butler agreed to release the images following an application from various media organisations.

The images were shown on screens within the courtroom during the cross examination of various witnesses, including scratch experts, throughout the committal hearing.

The court heard Baden-Clay told police the scratches on his face were shaving cuts, the scratches on his neck from a caterpillar and the marks on his chest from scratching an itch.

10.26am: Media organisations have just won the right to show photographs of Gerard Baden-Clay's various injuries. 

10.11am: The biggest courtroom in Brisbane Magistrates Court building is now so crowded that a screen will broadcast the hearing outside.

COURT: Photograph of injuries police found on Gerard Baden-Clay on the day he reported his wife Allison missing.

10.10am: Expert toxicologist Professor Olaf Drummer said it was difficult to make an accurate assessment because blood could only be taken from Allison Baden-Clay's liver.

The court heard it is more accurate to take blood from her legs but that had been impossible because of the amount of decomposition.

''The fact that this lady had been deceased for a lengthy period, about 11 days, before these samples were taken, presumably makes it more difficult, is that right?'' defence barrister Peter Davis asked.

''Yes,'' he replied.

''The more decomposition progresses, the more complicated the variables become, is that right?'' Mr Davis said.

''Yes,'' he said.

COURT: Photograph of injuries police found on Gerard Baden-Clay on the day he reported his wife Allison missing.

10am: An expert toxicologist has told the Brisbane Magistrates Court Allison Baden-Clay had a ''relatively normal'' level of antidepressant medication in her blood - and not enough to kill her.

Professor Olaf Drummer, from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, assessed the amount of Sertraline in Allison's blood to determine whether she had taken a fatal dose.

The professor is giving evidence on the final day of a committal hearing to determine whether Gerard Baden-Clay will stand trial for the murder of his wife Allison.

Allison was reported missing on April 20, 2012.

Her husband told police he left her watching The Footy Show and woke up the following morning to find her gone.

The mother-of-three's body was found 10 days later on the banks of the Kholo Creek.

COMMITTAL: Gerard Baden-Clay. Artwork: Brett Lethbridge

Baden-Clay has been charged with murdering his wife and interfering with her corpse.

''Essentially...the concentration of the drug Sertraline...in her blood is only moderately elevated to what one might see in a person on this drug for therapeutic purposes,'' Prof Drummer said.

''The state of her body was not good...the blood would not be very good as well.

Prof Drummer said the level of drug in Allison's liver was ''relatively normal''.

He said it was difficult to overdose on Sertraline without combining it with other drugs.

''It's very uncommon for a person to die from this drug alone,'' Prof Drummer said.

''Having said that, the body is decomposed and it does limit what one can say about the drug concentration.''

When asked whether there were any factors pointing to an overdose, Prof Drummer said ''no''.

He added there was some Sertraline in her stomach, but only a small amount.

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