Talk:David Bain
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Was David Bain really the killer of his family or was it his dad, Is David being locked up for something he never even donee this is something that has obverseley not been considereed very well at all. I think that perhaps they may have locked up the wrong guy that is just my opinion and I think alot of other people think the same.
- I think you need to work out how to use the spell check facility on your computer. The case has been considered several times by the courts including the Court of Appeal, and other independent bodies as well, with all of the arguments in Joe Karam's diatribe put before them (so I'd disagree that they have not been 'considereed (sic) very well at all'). All have rejected any suggestion that David Bain was not responsible. Several of the reports are on-line and if anyone has the time, they would make for useful links in addition to the one already given JRJW.
I believe the best evidence points to David as the murderer. I wonder, though, if sufficient consideration has been given to the possibility of someone outside the family committing the murders while staying overnight at the house. When the news broke, and before the victims had been publicly identified, Nicholas Greet, according to his own account, rang a local Dunedin radio station to ask if the family's name was Bain. He then hung up without supplying further information on the case. He claimed privately shortly after the event, that David's brother Stephen had told him a short time previously that David had walked into his (Stephen's) room late one night, pointed his fingers at him in the shape of a pistol, and said "Bang, bang, you're dead!" When confronted next day about this incident, he denied all memory of it. On the face of it, this account points very strongly at David as the culprit. Yet Greet later was a strenuous supporter of David Bain's innocence, and part of the action group working to clear his name.
There is a reference to Greet at http://crime.co.nz/c-files.asp?ID=107. Greet himself had a web page, apparently no longer extant, in which he mentioned that the police briefly considered him as a suspect. An article about the murders appeared shortly after the event in the New Zealand Listener, in which Greet is mentioned by name, and comments on the murders. I remember Greet being very agitated that his name appeared in the article. From memory, I think it was because the magazine quotes information from him that he had deliberately withheld from the police. Long time ago now, and, as I say, I still believe the main evidence supports the verdict of the court. But I don't believe supporters of either faction have looked closely enough at Greet's connection with the case.
It scares me that the Privy account agrees to hear his appeal on 06/06/06.
