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Baden-Clay charge: call to insurer may have proved murder

Yet prosecutors chose not to pursue the key evidence

Prosecutors in the Gerard Baden-Clay case decided not to pursue key information about phone calls to his murdered wife Allisonโ€™s life insurer, reports claim.

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The prosecution team chose not to use the information, despite detectives considering it to be โ€œsignificantโ€, the Courier Mail reports.

Baden-Clay phoned the insurer a week before he killed his wife but was told he could not be given any information because he was not the policyholder.

Detectives believe the phone calls about the insurance โ€“ almost $1 million โ€“ could prove that the crime was financially motivated.

However, prosecutors did not โ€œpursueโ€ the call during the trial nor cross-examine Baden-Clay about it.

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The prosecution teamโ€™s decision not to pursue the line of inquiry was cited in the Court of Appealโ€™s decision to downgrade Baden Clayโ€™s murder conviction to manslaughter.

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