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Joe Karam fails to prove David Bains innocence.

Joe Karam has failed in his bid to secure a compensation payment for David Bain from the New Zealand Justice Department. This was brought about unsurprisingly by his complete failure to supply any convincing evidential information to Justice Callinan, “the person given the job of deciding if David Bain was innocent on the balance of probabilities”.

Karma

Brilliant.  Sometimes Karma does not wait for reincarnation before taking effect.  Sometimes it happens within the same lifetime.  Let's consider the following:  

Where in the world is Joe Karam?

Need I ask?  Well, yes, actually, I do.  The compensation bid has reached its final pinnacle and there is not a word from Joe Karam.  In the past we have had Third Degree docos and Judicial Reviews in the lead up to Balance of Probability reports being released by distinguished overseas judges.   Callinan's report has not been made public, but we do know that he has finished and handed it in.  We have no idea what it says.  Surely Joe Karam has read it, if he is still David Bain's primary advocate.  

Reinvigorating the Counterspin Campaign in preparation for Callinan's Report

As the time draws near for the release of the report from the second judge tasked with deliberating on the issue of David Bain's possible culpability in the Bain Murders, it is time to get back into campaign mode. We have successfully beaten off an attempt to impose an injunction on Counterspin which would have prevented us from publishing altogether and now we can focus again on achieving the purpose this site was set up for, which is to counter the spin surrounding the events of June 1994 and prevent compensation being paid out to David Bain for alleged false imprisonment.

Ian Callinan and the balance of probabilities.

There are many who believe that the Bain family murder case is one of New Zealand’s most enduring mysteries, and I must admit there are fascinating aspects of the case that sets it apart from other murder cases, for instance there were five killed and five separate murder or death scenes, all the dead were found in separate rooms so five entirely individual crime scenes, the first fascinating fact is that there is absolutely no forensic or circumstantial evidence whatsoever that puts Robin Bain in any of the murder rooms apart from the room where he died in yet David Bain’s defence team say

Justice Binnie: Is this a case of sour grapes?

Opinion: Justice Binnie has accused the government of "shopping around to try to get a report that will allow it to dodge paying up", because they have rejected the report that he prepared for them in 2012, in which he recommended that David Bain should be awarded compensation for his alleged false imprisonment.  However, the retired judge, reportedly at least, illustrates perfectly why his report was rejected by standing by his recommendation that David Bain should be awarded comp