Kiwi buried in Polish legal system

Published: 10:13PM Tuesday September 12, 2006 Source: Close Up

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For the past seven months a New Zealander working for a British company has been held in a Polish prison.

Bruce Robinson was thrown into jail after the snow-laden roof of the Katowice international trade hall collapsed.

It was hosting a racing-pigeon exhibition at the time and 65 people were killed and 150 injured.

Robinson's fate has been buried under the weight of a secretive system which has stopped him from being heard, until now.

On Tuesday Close Up brings you the letters smuggled from his cell and talks to his parents about their frustration, as they try to deal with the painfully slow Polish legal system.

They say they are getting no support from the New Zealand government and are now going to Poland themselves.

Rawdon Christie talks to Dave and Carol Robinson about their plight.

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