After a brief court appearance in Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning, he was remanded in custody until July 9 and also instructed to provide police with a DNA sample under a "non-intimate forensic order". An artist's impression of Gerard Baden-Clay, as he sat in Brisbane Magistrates Court today. According to the bench charge sheet presented to the court today, Mr Baden-Clay allegedly killed his wife at their home on Brookfield Road on April 19. He is further charged with improperly interfering with her body at Kholo Creek, where she was eventually found 10 days after being reported missing. This afternoon, Mr Baden-Clay’s solicitor Darren Mahony lodged an application for bail on behalf of their client in the Supreme Court.

The bail application will be heard in court next Thursday, June 21. Police take Gerard Baden-Clay away last night to be charged with the murder of his wife Allison. Screengrab from Channel 10. Earlier today, media packed Roma Street Magistrates Court, where a stony-faced Mr Baden-Clay appeared briefly in the glass-enclosed dock of Courtroom 3 about 9.30am. Wearing the same dark trousers and a neatly ironed business shirt in which he was arrested yesterday, he sat with his back turned to the public gallery and his head bowed. Solicitors for Gerard Baden-Clay, Darren Mahony and Jason Jacobson arrive at court today. Credit:Harrison Saragossi

The initial hearing lasted no longer than a minute before Mr Baden-Clay was returned to the watchhouse cells. He faced court again shortly after 10am when police made their application for the forensic order, to which Mr Baden-Clay consented. Allison Baden-Clay. Credit:Contributed/The Queensland Times Outside the Magistrates Court, Mr Mahony said his client intended to fight the charges. "Mr Baden-Clay maintains his innocence. The next step is to apply for bail in the Supreme Court," he said.

Gerard Baden-Clay's lawyer Darren Mahony speaks to media outside Roma Street Magistrates Court in Brisbane today. Credit:Harrison Saragossi The arrest Mr Baden-Clay spent the night in a watchhouse cell, after being charged last night with one count each of murder and unlawfully interfering with a corpse. A police source told brisbanetimes.com.au the charge was based on an "accumulation of evidence" rather than a single breakthrough in the case. With their father behind bars, Mr Baden-Clay's three daughters are in the care of their maternal grandparents Priscilla and Geoff Dickie.

Mr Baden-Clay went voluntarily with detectives to Indooroopilly police station, from his real-estate office in Toowong Tower, about 3pm yesterday. Shortly before 6.30pm, he was driven from Indooroopilly station in an unmarked police car to the Brisbane Watchhouse where he was formally charged with murder. In the meantime, his daughters were taken to Ferny Grove police station where they were collected by their grandparents who travelled from the Gold Coast to Brisbane to collect the girls. Mr Mahony told reporters outside the Indooroopilly police station his client intended to defend the charge. "He is devastated and his intention is clearly to defend the charge vigorously," he said.

The investigation Today marks eight weeks since Mrs Baden-Clay disappeared from her home in the leafy western Brisbane suburb of Brookfield. Mr Baden-Clay reported her missing on Friday, April 20, allegedly telling police he last saw his wife watching television in their living room about 10pm the previous night. Police immediately mounted an extensive search for the 43-year-old former human resources executive, establishing a command post at the Brookfield Showgrounds just several hundred metres from the Baden-Clay home. Community members held nightly prayer vigils for Mrs Baden-Clay as up to 50 State Emergency Service volunteers and 80 police officers scoured rough terrain and private acreage properties across Brookfield Valley.

As the search entered its 11th day, Mrs Baden-Clay's body was discovered by a canoeist under the Kholo Creek Bridge, confirming the worst for her family and friends. Last night, Mrs Baden-Clay's family thanked police for their efforts. "We would like to thank all the people who have worked so tirelessly in the wake of this terrible tragedy," the family said in a statement. "We are extremely grateful for the support of the community, the people of Brookfield, the SES and the police who have gone beyond the call of duty. "We love Allison and will always miss her dearly.

"We have a long road ahead of us coming to terms with this horrific crime." During their two-month investigation, detectives seized a number of items and a laptop from the Kenmore home of Mr Baden-Clay's parents where the real-estate agent stayed with his daughters for several weeks after his wife's disappearance. Two weeks ago, police interviewed a female associate of Mr Baden-Clay in Sydney. Detectives had previously interviewed a former female colleague of the real-estate agent. Police also requested information from the public about the movements of the Baden-Clays' cars - a white Toyota Prado and a silver Holden Captiva - between 11.30pm on Thursday, April 19, and 4am on Friday, April 20.

The Baden-Clay marriage Mrs Baden-Clay met her husband while both worked for Flight Centre. She was managing a Flight Centre branch in Ipswich at the time, while he worked as a consultant at the Toombul store. Mrs Baden-Clay later excelled to become the global head of human resources for Flight Centre, before she and Gerard married in 1997 and then settled in London for about a year. Following their return to Brisbane, Mr Baden-Clay founded a real-estate office with Century 21 in Taringa. Mr Baden-Clay is the great-grandson of the founder of the Scout movement, Robert Baden-Powell.

Mrs Baden-Clay stepped out of the workforce to be a stay-at-home mother for her daughters. At her funeral attended by hundreds, she was remembered as "a high achiever, a model mum and an unselfish soul". Loading Mrs Baden-Clay's older sister Vanessa Fowler pledged to fight for justice. "Allison, there are many questions that are unanswered, many pieces of a puzzle that need to be put together, and we your family pledge to you that we will have these questions answered," she said.