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The Crown has summed up its case at the David Bain murder retrial.
The Crown says there's not a shred of forensic evidence to show Robin Bain murdered family members then killed himself.
Watch the Crown summing up their case here.
Closing addresses in the David Bain murder trial began in the High Court in Christchurch on Tuesday morning after evidence from around 200 prosecution and defence witnesses over 55 days.
Bain, 37, has denied shooting dead his parents and three siblings in the family's Every Street, Dunedin, home in June, 1994.
The defence contends Bain's father Robin killed his wife and three of his children before turning the gun on himself.
Crown counsel Kieran Raftery said the jury's duty was the same as the first trial - was David Bain or his father the killer?
"There isn't the slightest shred of forensic evidence linking Robin Bain to this case," he added.
Raftery also said David's sister Laniet was unreliable. If everything she had told people was taken as gospel she would have had three babies by the time she was 12-and-a-half years old, he said.
Raftery says the killer would have been covered in blood after the fight in Stephen's room.
He says , if that had been Robin Bain he'd have to have got changed and put the bloody clothes in the washing basket for David to wash.
Raftery also questioned why Robin Bain would need to use David's bloody gloves found in that bedroom.
He says only reason someone would wear gloves is to disguise their fingerprints and says that's another piece of evidence pointing to David Bain.
Michael Reed QC will close for the defence on Wednesday.
Justice Graham Panckhurst is expected to begin summing on
Thursday.
The David Bain re-trial wraps up in Christchurch this
week. The jury is expected to go out to deliberate on Thursday June
4. ONE News and tvnz.co.nz will have complete coverage of the
verdict as it happens stay tuned.
