- Comment: Intimate partner homicide, the media and the Baden-Clay case
- Allison Baden-Clay's family describe heartbreak in victim impact statements
- Jury finds Baden-Clay guilty of murder
Baden-Clay has spent his first night in jail as a convicted murderer after being found guilty on Tuesday and sentenced to at least 15 years behind bars.
He has a month to decide whether he'll mount an appeal, with his lawyers saying it was too soon to discuss that after Tuesday's verdict.
After the court result, Allison Baden-Clay's family is focused on giving the three Baden-Clay daughters the love, care and support they need with their mother dead, and their father facing a very long time in jail.
Allison's parents used their victim impact statements in the Supreme Court in Brisbane to explain in heart-breaking detail what Baden-Clay had taken from them, and from his own children, when he killed his wife in April 2012.
A jury accepted defence arguments that he murdered Allison in a violent struggle in which she lashed out and clawed her husband's face, leaving her mark on him.
They accepted he'd then bundled her body into the family car at night, and had left his daughters home alone to dump it at the Kholo Creek 13 kilometres away.
Justice John Byrne said Baden-Clay had shown no remorse for his actions, had engaged in a campaign of deceit after his crime, even pretending to look for his dead wife, and smeared her reputation during the murder trial.
Details that were kept from the jury during the trial have continued to emerge, including that detectives bugged the flowers at Allison's funeral, hoping they might catch her husband confessing.
Police thought Baden-Clay might utter something incriminating if he took a private moment to stand beside his wife's coffin. But the plan didn't work, with Baden-Clay arriving late to the service with his young daughters in tow.
It's also emerged Baden-Clay, who confessed in court to a series of extra-marital affairs, was looking for women online too.
"Looking for discrete (sic) sex," he wrote on adultfriendfinder.com on New Year's Eve in 2010, according to some media reports.
"Married but don't want to be - looking for some sex on the side?"
The jury was also not told about a mid-trial defence application for the court to find Baden-Clay had no case to answer on the murder charge.
His legal team argued there was no evidence that there was an intention by any person to kill Allison or at least cause her grievous bodily harm.
They told the court the evidence pointed to an argument and that Allison "responded physically", but there were issues around the question of intent.
Justice Byrne said he had serious problems with such a hypothetical scenario.
He said if the death had been an unintentional consequence, the subsequent actions of Baden-Clay were not typical.
"What he did involved disposing of a body in an undignified way, in a manner calculated to prevent its discovery," he said.
"He then engages in serious subterfuge. He lies about the scratches and does more than that. He uses the razor blade to create the appearance some hours later of scratches on the face.
"He then lies to the police about these things and maintains the deception and has never departed from it.
"All the trouble he went to for so long is indicative of something more than an accident that he'd rather forget."
Justice Byrne refused the application.
