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July 25th, 2012 
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The prosecution alleges Lloyd Rayney killed his wife at the couple’s home in Como. (ABC News)
The Supreme Court murder trial of Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney has heard he was relaxed but that changed, just hours after he was alleged to have killed and buried his wife.
He is accused of murdering his wife Corryn, a Supreme Court registrar, in 2007.
She disappeared after a bootscooting class and her body was discovered eight days later, buried in Kings Park.
Barrister Philip Urquhart, who had known the couple for more than two decades, says Rayney appeared very normal on the morning after his wife had disappeared.
He says his colleague’s demeanour changed mid-morning when he then appeared extremely anxious.
Mr Urquhart said they were working on the same court case at the time but Rayney had to excuse himself because “something urgent had come up”.
Placecard
Another colleague, barrister Elizabeth Needham, says she was with the accused at a work dinner in the week prior to the murder.
A placecard from that dinner, bearing Lloyd Rayney’s name, was found in Kings Park near his wife’s bush grave before her body was discovered.
The prosecution alleges Rayney dropped the card when he buried his wife.
Ms Needham said she had used the placecard in a game of celebrity heads.
She told the court she had spoken to Rayney about his family, and he spoke about his wife affectionately.
Yesterday, Mrs Rayney’s father Ernest Da Silva testified that the couple’s marriage had soured and the couple argued constantly in the months prior to the murder.
He said his daughter told him she was not prepared to live with her husband any more, and Rayney had called him to ask for advice.
The prosecution alleges Rayney killed his wife at their Como home because their marriage had broken down.
They allege he then used her car to transport her body.
The court has been told the car hit a bollard on its way out of the bush grave site, causing a leak and it was then abandoned in a Subiaco street.
It was the leaking fluid which led police to the burial site.
Legal street
A Subiaco resident, Kaylene Durrant, who lived on nearby Thomas Street, told the court she heard a car struggling to gain power in the early hours of the morning after Mrs Rayney disappeared.
She said she later noticed a splatter of what appeared to be oil on the road.
The court has been told a number of people who worked within the legal system lived on the street where Mrs Rayney’s car was abandoned.
Barrister Mark Trowell lives in Kershaw Street and told the court he did not realise it was the missing car until days later, despite a conversation with a friend about it.
The pair had heard a news story on the radio and Mr Trowell commented that he wouldn’t know what that type of car looked like.
He said his friend pointed at the abandoned car, later found to be Mrs Rayney’s, and said like that.
At least two other prominent barristers also lived on the street.
Michael Webb, who had lived there, said in his evidence his wife was a colleague of Rayney’s and they played bridge together.
Mr Webb gave evidence that the Rayneys’ marriage had appeared normal about a year before the murder.
Rayney has entered a not guilty plea and has always denied having anything to do with his wife’s death.
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