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David Bain will speak publicly for the first time at an international conference on "victims of gross injustices".
Bain will join a star-studded line-up of victims of miscarriages of justice including Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, Australian Lindy Chamberlain and Gerry Conlon - part of the Guildford Four who were the subject of the Daniel Day-Lewis movie In the Name of the Father.
The Justice Conference, in Perth in March, is billed as a world-first assembly of victims of miscarriages, lawyers and forensic experts.
Bain, who after 13 years in jail was found not guilty in a second trial for the 1994 murders of his family, will be joined at the conference by long-term supporter Joe Karam.
Karam said today it was fitting that Bain should join "all the innocent people who have been subjected to oppression by the state".
"David's verdict was a breaking news item on BBC world news.''
Karam said Bain had already met Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongly imprisoned for murder from 1966 to 1985 and was the subject of a Bob Dylan song and a Denzel Washington movie.
Karam brought Carter to New Zealand and he met Bain in jail in 2001.
He and Bain were together on the weekend celebrating the fourth anniversary of his release on bail following the Privy Council order of a retrial.
They talked about the conference but Bain had not yet decided what he would be talking about.
Karam said he had confidence that Bain would be a good speaker, despite his relative public silence since being released.
He had not spoken to the media in New Zealand at length because he would not get a fair hearing, Karam said
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