Bain rifle magazine find unusual. A former police officer said at court in 2009 that he thought it ''unusual'' a rifle magazine near the dead body of Robin Bain was sitting on its edge.

It ''stuck in my mind'', Kim Stephenson told the Christchurch jury hearing the retrial of David Bain in the High Court in Christchurch in 2009.

Mr. Stephenson, one of the first four officers to enter the house said he recalled shining his torch into the right hand front room and seeing the body of a man on the floor. There was blood around the head, some blood seepage and a rifle on the floor away from the body. Also on the floor was a live round and the rifle magazine sitting on its edge.

At the Privy Council appeal Dr Collins told the hearing that, based on forensic experiments conducted after the killings, there was "a 0 per cent chance" that the magazine from the gun used in the killing could have ended up balanced in the position that it was found in, next to Robin's body, if he had been holding the gun himself.  More in depth reading found HERE

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