08:50 EDT, 6 June 2021
A banker allegedly took his two children to the roadside memorial of Allison Baden Clay and the street where Hannah Clarke was set alight with her three kids in a bid to intimidate his estranged partner, a court has heard.
The father fronted a bail hearing at Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday over alleged domestic abuse offences which allegedly occurred in 2018.
The charges include choking/suffocation/strangulation in a domestic relationship and assaults occasioning bodily harm.
The court heard the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also allegedly took his nine-year-old twins to the murder sites of domestic abuse victims to exert control over his ex-partner, the Courier Mail reports.
Crime by Amelia Saw
Premium Content Wife-killer Gerard Baden-Clay was sure he d get away with it. His wife Allison s body was in a creek, several kilometres from the family home in Brookfield, Brisbane, and he d been quick to file a missing persons report. Perhaps, a little too quick. Then there were the two raggedy, red scratches on his cheek. He claimed he d cut himself shaving but the two first responding officers were instantly suspicious. It s these kind of red flags that investigators should look out for, according to Dr Claire Ferguson, a criminologist and forensic psychologist who specialises in identifying concealed homicides.
It s been 11 years since the Brisbane mother-of-three s death shocked the nation when Allison Baden-Clay s body was found on a creek bank in April 2012.