Prosecutors in the Gerard Baden-Clay case decided not to pursue key information about phone calls to his murdered wife Allison’s life insurer, reports claim.
The prosecution team chose not to use the information, despite detectives considering it to be “significant”, 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 – almost $1 million – could prove that the crime was financially motivated.
However, prosecutors did not “pursue” the call during the trial nor cross-examine Baden-Clay about it.
The prosecution team’s decision not to pursue the line of inquiry was cited in the Court of Appeal’s decision to downgrade Baden Clay’s murder conviction to manslaughter.
