David Bain

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For the Australian rules footballer, see David Bain (Australian rules footballer).
David Cullen Bain (born March 27, 1972 in Dunedin, New Zealand) was convicted in May 1995 for the murder of his parents and siblings on 20 June the previous year. He served 12 years of a life sentence before his final appeal to the Privy Council was successful in May 2007. Finding there had been a substantial miscarriage of justice, the Privy Council quashed his convictions and recommended a retrial. He was released on bail to await the retrial, which began on 6 March 2009. It is being held in Christchurch, and is scheduled to take three months.
His case has been the subject of numerous appeals and inquiries, and is one of New Zealand’s most controversial murder cases.
Early life
David was the first child of Margaret Arawa and Robin Irving Bain. Soon after he was born, the family moved to outback Papua New Guinea where Robin worked as a missionary teacher. They returned to New Zealand fifteen years later in 1988 when Margaret and Robin were having relationship problems.
Once back, they returned to their home at 65 Every Street, Andersons Bay, Dunedin. It took David a year to settle back into school, but he joined the school choir and in the seventh form his marks improved and he went to university, encouraged by his parents. He dropped out of university and was on the unemployment benefit and working at Opera Alive for a period before returning to university to study classical music and professional voice training lessons.
The killings
On the morning of 20 June 1994, five members of the Bain family were shot dead. The dead were Robin Bain (58), his wife Margaret (50), their daughters Arawa (19), Laniet (18) and son Stephen (14). David called 111 at 7:09 am, seeming very distressed. He had completed his paper round; what else happened that morning has been disputed.
Four days after the murders, David Bain (then aged 22) was charged by the police with the murder of his family.
The house at 65 Every Street was burnt down on 5 July 1994 by the New Zealand Fire Service, at the request of the Bain family trust.
Criminal trial
The three week trial took place at the Dunedin High Court in May 1995 and was presided over by Justice Neil Williamson.
The Prosecution’s portrayal of events was, in brief, as follows. David got up by 5 am on the morning of 20 June. After getting dressed, he took his rifle and some ammunition from the wardrobe and unlocked the trigger lock using the spare key. The spare key, which he kept in a jar on his desk, was used because he had left the usual key in the pocket of a raincoat in his father’s caravan. David then shot all his family members except his father, who was out in the caravan. He fought violently with Stephen, losing a lens from his glasses in the struggle. There was much blood. He put his blood-stained clothes in the washing machine, started it, washed himself and changed into clean clothes, leaving marks in the laundry/bathroom in the process. He went on his paper run as usual at roughly 5:45 am, hurrying to arrive home slightly earlier than usual at about 6:42 am. David then went upstairs, switching on the computer at 6:44 am, where he typed in a message (then or later): “SORRY, YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO DESERVED TO STAY”. He waited for his father to come in from the caravan to pray, as was his habit around 7 am. When Robin knelt to pray in the lounge, David shot him in the head from very close range. He rearranged the scene to seem like a suicide, then called 111 to report the killings, pretending to be very agitated.
David’s own story was that he got up at the usual time, put on his running shoes and the yellow newspaper bag, and went on his paper run with the dog. He arrived back about 6:42 – 6:43 am, entering by the front door, and went to his room. He took off the newspaper bag and his shoes there, then went downstairs to the bathroom where he washed his hands, black from the newsprint. He put some coloured clothes in the machine, including the sweatshirt worn on his paper run over the last week, and set it going. He went back upstairs to his room, turning on the light. He then noticed bullets and the trigger lock on the floor. He went to his mother’s room, finding her dead, then visited the other rooms where he heard Laniet gurgling, and found his father dead in the lounge. He was devastated and rang the emergency number in great distress.
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