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ISSN 1172-4153 | Volume 2 | Issue 38 |
| 12 June 2009
Karam slams media By Ian Wishart
David Bain supporter Joe Karam has slammed media coverage of the Bain trial, saying many of the key elements of the defence case were not reported by journalists covering the hearing. Karam told TGIF Edition tonight that he’s been fielding media calls about the absence of any forensic evidence against Robin Bain – a claim he says is utterly wrong: “Another story that’s done the rounds this week is that there’s absolutely no forensic evidence against Robin Bain. “Tell me your explanation for all of the dry remnants of blood all over Robin’s left hand? There’s got to be an explanation for it, how did it get there? Did you hear the Crown give you an explanation for it? What about the blood under his fingernails? What about, as Dempster the pathologist said, the very recent injury to the back of his hand that happened within a few hours of his death? He didn’t get it shaving as he hadn’t shaved, and he wouldn’t be out putting up the new spouting at four o’clock in the morning – where did that come from? “What about the blood we found on the top of his shoes? As you would know in the first trial he was said to be kneeling down saying his prayers when David shot him, but they had to abandon that in this trial because when his shoes were sent over to England in November last year we found his blood on top of his shoes in the form of spatter, which means it must have been within about three feet of his head at the time he was shot. He can’t have been kneeling down because the top of his shoes would have been on the carpet, so that blew away the kneeling down story,”Karam told TGIF. “The final one was that the last shot fired by that gun – which everyone acknowledges had to have been the one that killed Robin – was a contact shot, the reason being that they found blood in the barrel.
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Of course, if there’s blood in the barrel it can only get there from a contact shot and any subsequent shot blows the blood out. So we now have proof that the shot that killed Robin Bain was a contact shot and – albeit reluctantly at times – all pathologists agreed that a contact shot to the front of the head
is nearly always a suicide, self-inflicted shot while people are up and about, because it’s pretty hard to get them to stand still while you hold a gun to their head. “None of this came out in their media coverage. So they don’t cover it, and then they have the cheek
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H1N1/A Flu begins to bite NZ Wellington, June 12 NZPA – Eight new swine flu cases have been confirmed in New Zealand in the last 24 hours, five of them in Wellington, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 35. The new cases were: • a 73-year-old woman from the mid-central region; • Auckland sisters aged 10 and 13, who are in isolation in Starship Children’s Hospital with respiratory symptoms;
• a 20-year-old woman,22-year-old man and eightmonth-old boy, from the same Wellington address; • a 22-year-old Wellington man; • a 26-year-old Wellington woman. All have mild symptoms, with the exception of the Auckland girls, and are being treated at home with Tamiflu. Health officials are tracing their close contacts, who will be asked to stay at home and take Tamiflu. Starship emergency department clinical director
Dr Richard Aickin said the hospital was operating normally with infection control procedures in place. “Unfortunately there were some staff who came into contact with the children before the full diagnosis was made,”he said at a press conference this afternoon. “Those staff are in a highly specialised unit and we do require their services.” Staff had been given Tamiflu and those who were well continued to work using precautions such as
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surgical masks, Dr Aickin said. The mother was in isolation with the girls, she did not have symptoms, while their father was in home quarantine. They had not travelled but a member of their extended family had returned from Melbourne, Dr Aickin said. “To our great fortune, neither were at school during the incubation period because they were Continue reading