Kid Presentable
06-07-2007, 08:18 AM
David Bain. I followed this case daily when I was doing a paper-run back in 1994-95. I don't know that I'd call him innocent, like people on TV3 News seem to be (cheers Youtube). Sadly, the only media I'm exposed to is pretty sycophantic, and seems to paint him as a man wronged.
One of my friends' Mums is a Judge in the North Island, and popular (although informal) legal view at the time had him guilty as all fuckery. Evidently there was no way to defend him initially, with what was involved in the prosecution case.
For those wondering, in 1994 David Bain (then 22) comes home from a paper-run at 6:45 in the morning, finds his two sisters, mother and younger brother all murdered in their bedrooms via .22 rifle. His father is found in the lounge with a point-blank gunshot wound to the head. A message on the nearby computer says "Sorry, you were the only one who deserved to stay".
A Jury found that Bain murdered 4 of the family members before going on his paper-run, coming home in time to then shoot his father from behind a curtain, as he knelt for his morning prayer. After being convicted in 95, Bain's supporters (namely a famously alcoholic and professionally disgraced Joe Karam) have taken his case to every court of appeal in the land. His case was the last New Zealand case to be heard by the Privy council, who subsequently quashed the convictions, citing a "substantial miscarriage of justice" that "has actually occurred". Now awaiting a decision on whether to retry, Bain is largely treated as innocent.
It's said to be unlikely they'll retry him, as the evidence is all fucked now, along with witness' recollections of evidence.
This thread will fail.
One of my friends' Mums is a Judge in the North Island, and popular (although informal) legal view at the time had him guilty as all fuckery. Evidently there was no way to defend him initially, with what was involved in the prosecution case.
For those wondering, in 1994 David Bain (then 22) comes home from a paper-run at 6:45 in the morning, finds his two sisters, mother and younger brother all murdered in their bedrooms via .22 rifle. His father is found in the lounge with a point-blank gunshot wound to the head. A message on the nearby computer says "Sorry, you were the only one who deserved to stay".
A Jury found that Bain murdered 4 of the family members before going on his paper-run, coming home in time to then shoot his father from behind a curtain, as he knelt for his morning prayer. After being convicted in 95, Bain's supporters (namely a famously alcoholic and professionally disgraced Joe Karam) have taken his case to every court of appeal in the land. His case was the last New Zealand case to be heard by the Privy council, who subsequently quashed the convictions, citing a "substantial miscarriage of justice" that "has actually occurred". Now awaiting a decision on whether to retry, Bain is largely treated as innocent.
It's said to be unlikely they'll retry him, as the evidence is all fucked now, along with witness' recollections of evidence.
This thread will fail.