In 1997 Joe Karam had decided that on the evidence Robin Bain had killed four members of his family and he wrote about it in his book David and Goliath. This opinion about the evidence was at odds with the police and forensic experts that worked on the case in 1994.

Normally, the sub judice rule would prevent one from discussing too much about the nature of a legal trial prior to its resolution, but not everyone obeys this rule and in this particular case, we are representing a matter of public concern upon which thousands of people have made similar comments, either through the petition hosted on this site or in other blogs around the internet.  For the sake of soliciting do

Joe Karam made much airtime out of the lack of motive for David Bain, or more correctly, the Prosecution's inability to articulate a valid and compelling one.  We now have that missing link:

David Bain had the following possible motive to compel him to commit the murders. 

A combination of perceived betrayal (from his parents) and jealousy (of his siblings), and added to that a sense of loss of control.

Betrayal

It wouldn't be all that hard to make a case for the 2009 retrial being a "gross miscarriage of justice".  We already have a witness being found to have given untruthful evidence and we have news of jury members behaving inappropriately.  Apparently one jury member obtained a copy of one of Karam's books and downloaded some material from the internet about Karam's campaign.  Trials hav

Joe Karam has sued me and Vic because of things that we and 16 other people said about the Bain case and Karam's involvement in it.  I believe that we are entitled to discuss the Bain case because it is public knowledge and involves public processes and services.  The lawsuit against us has no place in a society such as New Zealand which is in the top three countries in the world for civil liberties.  Freedom of political expression is essential in a democratic society to ensure fairness, social progress, freedom from tyranny and all the other elements of our society which we

Joe Karam is on a roll.  He has David Bain booked for an inaugural Justice Conference in Perth in March this year and he has announced the publication of his latest book to coincide with it. These two events are carefully timed to keep his spin on the facts of the Bain case in high profile.

Details of the propaganda campaign

Joe Karam has sued members of the Justice for Robin Bain Group for defamation on the basis of things that 18 members of the general public have said on online discussion boards about the Bain case.  These 18 people are students, housewives, small business owners, workers, teachers, retirees, people like you and me.  This is not ACP Media or Fairfax that Karam has sued.  These are just everyday NZers. 

To attendants and organizers of the Perth Injustice Conference, media and other parties

From Bain and beyond. Page 19

Joe Karam writes: [quote] Robin Bain's death carries all the hallmarks of suicide-- a contact wound to the temple and rifle lying beside the body. This statement is corroborated by two eminent Australian pathologists, and is by the original pathologists post mortem notes which were not disclosed to the defence or the jury.[end quote]

...The original pathologist Dr Dempster conclusion was cited by the trial Judge in summing up: