There were more tears from family members yesterday during the continuation of the murder trial of Paul Gooden, who is accused of killing his wife Ingrid Andrade-Gooden.

The couple, the court was told, frequently quarrelled over the amount of time Ingrid spent on the computer where she had made many Internet friends. Her mother Ruby Andrade told the court that her daughter’s Internet friends, who lived as far away as Poland and Germany, sometimes sent her pictures.

In keeping with evidence supplied on Monday by her husband and former Director of Public Prosecutions Glen Andrade, she told the court that one particularly bad quarrel had been sparked by Gooden’s growing impatience with his wife’s computer use.

During that October quarrel at her home, her daughter told Gooden that their marriage was over, she said.

“She said, ‘This is the last straw, I don’t want to have anything to do with you again and threw her (wedding) ring in the toilet bowl’. I knew the relationship was strained, she was fed up and depressed with Paul,” Andrade-Gooden’s mother testified.

She also told the court of Gooden’s unusual move to drop off his family’s laundry at her home on Friday November 11. That task was usually his wife’s, but Gooden told her that Ingrid had left home at 6:00 am, taking her handbag and cellular phone, she said.

Gooden, the victim’s mother testified, told her that her daughter had left without combing her children’s hair, saying she wanted her space and someone was going to pick her up.

“I found it strange for her to leave at that hour without attending to the children,” said Mrs Andrade. “I attempted to call her by cell phone all through the day but I got recordings, then I started to get worried as her action was (out of character).”

Sharon Andrade-Bucknor, Ingrid’s sister who last spoke to her on November 6, also took the stand yesterday. On that day, she said, Gooden told her that Ingrid had gotten a referral to see a doctor about her depression.

And in her testimony yesterday, Constable Jacqueline Pinnock of the motorised patrol unit described the state of Andrade Gooden’s body when it was found on November 11, while Detective Sergeant Dennis Ballen said he took Gooden to the hospital for treatment of scratches and bruises to his hand and face.

While on the stand, Judith Christine Reid, a security guard at Yummy Bakery at 65 Hagley Park Road in Kingston where Gooden worked, painted a picture of her encounter with a sweaty and agitated Gooden at about 7:00 am on November 7.

He drove his car onto the compound and entered the guard house, she said.

“He was sweaty and was moving up and down,” she testified. “I asked him what’s the matter and he said he was waiting on Mr Clunie, who had left him. I noticed scratches on his hands and face, (and) two to three scratches on his hand which left a red mark. There were also scratches on his cheek. I asked him what was wrong with him he said his cat scratched him.”

The trial continues today.