'Within 25 minutes he calls the Indooroopilly police.' Gerard doesn't bundle his children in the car and go looking. 'Gerard gets up, checks emails, then begins a series of calls and texts to Allison almost straight away. Mr Fuller also ran though the actions of Baden-Clay on the morning of his wife's disappearance. 'And consistent with how he behaved in his relationship up to that time with both of these women, calmly and rationally decided to cover it up.'

But when a decision had to be made, that decision was made. No other choice than to take his wife's life. 'This was a man who was having to deal with the consequences of his own actions, over a long period,' Mr Fuller said. He told the jury Baden-Clay may have felt he had no other choice but to kill his wife. 'He tried to live without Toni McHugh and couldn't do it. 'What was going to happen if Allison Baden-Clay found out for a second time?' Mr Fuller said. The trial has heard about Baden-Clay's infidelities, and Mr Fuller says a conversation between the accused and his mistress Toni McHugh the night before Allison's disappearance might have put significant pressure on Baden-Clay.

In his final comments to the jury, crown prosecutor Todd Fuller today told them to consider Baden-Clay's actions on the day his wife disappeared along with the scratches on his face, the leaves in Allison's hair, and the blood in her car. Justice John Byrne has now begun summing up the case for the jurors.

Her body was found on a creek bank 10 days after her husband reported her missing from their home in nearby Brookfield. Prosecutors have finished summing up their case against the former Brisbane real estate agent, who has denied killing his wife Allison in April 2012. Jurors in the murder trial of accused wife killer Gerard Baden-Clay have been told they have the option of convicting him of manslaughter if they do not think he is guilty of murder.

Finale 2014 trial