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David Cullen Bain (born 27 March 1972) is a New Zealander who was convicted in May 1995 of the murders of his parents and siblings in Dunedin on 20 June 1994. He spent over 13 years in prison before being acquitted on all charges after a retrial. Soon after his conviction in 1995, Bain's case was taken up by former All Black, Joe Karam, who was convinced that Bain was innocent. Karam wrote four books about the case and helped Bain through a long drawn out appeal process. In the end, Bain served 13½ years of a life sentence before successfully appealing his original convictions to the Privy Council in Britain in May 2007. Finding there had been a substantial miscarriage of justice, the Privy Council quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial.〔Bain v. The Queen, 2006, paragraph 119.〕 The second trial held in Christchurch ended with his acquittal on all charges in June 2009.〔 Speculation about the case continued long after Bain was acquitted, including whether or not he should receive compensation for the years he spent in prison. Because of the high profile nature of the case, in November 2011 Justice Minister Simon Power appointed a Canadian jurist, Ian Binnie to review the circumstances and advise the Government on whether compensation should be paid. Binnie's report was subsequently rejected by the Government.〔(Bain innocent and deserves payout, judge tells Cabinet ), NZ Herald 10 September 2012〕〔(City divided on compo for David Bain ), NZ Herald 10 September 2012〕 In March 2015, retired Australian High Court judge, (Callinan QC was appointed ) to review Mr Bain's claims for compensation for wrongful conviction and imprisonment. He was expected to report back to New Zealand's Justice Minister, Amy Adams, in September 2015. By November 2015, more than six years after Bain was found not guilty, no decision on compensation had been announced. ==Family background== David Bain was born in Dunedin, New Zealand to Margaret Arawa and Robin Irving Bain and was the oldest of four children. Soon after he was born, the family moved to Papua New Guinea, where Robin worked as a missionary teacher. The family returned to New Zealand fifteen years later (in 1988) by which time Margaret and Robin were reported as having "relationship problems". On his return, Robin became the principal of Taieri Beach Primary School, a two-teacher school about 50 kilometres down the coast from Dunedin.〔(David Bain V The Queen - Privy Council Judgment ), Friday, 11 May 2007, para 2〕 The family lived at 65 Every Street, Andersons Bay, Dunedin and prior to the death of his family in 1994, David was studying music and classics at Otago University.〔(David Bain V The Queen - Privy Council Judgment ), Friday, 11 May 2007, para 2〕 By this stage, his parents were estranged and Robin Bain was sleeping in the back of his van at Taieri or in the schoolhouse. For a while one of his daughters, Laniet, also lived with him in the schoolhouse.〔(David Bain V The Queen - Privy Council Judgment ), Friday, 11 May 2007, para 3〕 Robin used to return to the family home at the weekends and slept in a caravan in the back garden.〔(David Bain V The Queen - Privy Council Judgment ), Friday, 11 May 2007, para 3〕 Dean Cottle, a friend of Laniet's, said that she had told him that Robin Bain was in an incestuous relationship with her that had begun when the family were in Papua New Guinea. He claimed Laniet told him she had been a prostitute and that her father had been having sex with her for about a year and was still doing so.〔(David Bain V The Queen - Privy Council Judgment ), Friday, 11 May 2007, para 10〕 A teacher revealed that Laniet told him she had been raped while the family lived in Papua New Guinea〔(Bain agreed to burning down family home ), TVNZ 29 April 2009.〕 and claimed to have had a baby.〔(Laniet Bain: `I had a black baby' ), Stuff website 29 April 2009.〕〔(Bain `fainted' on day of murders ), Press 13 May 2009〕 After the trial Cottle said that on Friday 17 June, three days before the murders, Laniet told him she was going home that weekend to tell the rest of the family what had been going on and "put a stop to everything".〔David Bain V The Queen - Privy Council Judgment, Para 10〕 Fellow teachers said that in the months preceding the murders, Robin Bain had been "deeply depressed, to the point of impairing his ability to do his job of teaching children". Kevin Mackenzie, principal of a primary school near Taieri, subsequently stated that Robin Bain was so depressed he "had lost touch with reality due to his mental state".〔David Bain V The Queen - Privy Council Judgment, para 41〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Bain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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