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A documentary maker says he has uncovered new evidence which he says will change people's minds about whether Robin Bain killed his family.
David Bain was acquitted of the murders of his father and mother, Robin and Margaret, and siblings, Laniet, Arawa and Stephen, last year, in what was arguably New Zealand's most high-profile court case. His defence team argued Robin Bain was the killer.
Bryan Bruce, whose documentary The Investigator: The Case Against Robin Bain screens at 9.30 tonight on TV ONE, has spent the last year re-examining evidence from the court case and uncovering new evidence.
He says the new evidence about Robin is not forensic, but based on motive.
He says he did not look at any evidence relating to David Bain.
"I attack the motive aspect of the trial, the alleged incest allegation and that he [Robin] was some sort of debauched man who was an alcoholic," Bruce told TV ONE's Breakfast programme.
Bruce says motive was a large part of the trial and he hopes police will take an interest in the new evidence after the programme airs.
"I think the evidence I'm going to present tonight will cause New Zealanders a lot of concern about what went on in our court."
He says a lot of New Zealanders have formed strange ideas about what Robin was like as a person, and says the media is partly to blame for that.
"He was a missionary, he was a good father, he was a man with a sense of humour, I've discovered, and a very good teacher.
"There simply is no evidence to show that Robin Bain murdered his family."
Bruce says that as a general rule he believes families of the deceased should be able to take defamation cases.
"If the case against Robin Bain tells us anything, it tells us that there is something wrong with the 2006 Evidence Act that allows a lot of hearsay evidence into a trial which can't be challenged, particularly if the person who gave the hearsay is dead.
"David got a fair trial, but his father never did."
He adds: "I take the view that you don't have to have a view about David in order to do a documentary about Robin."
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